Welcome to DtD Software

I was cleaning out some old stuff from the server today, and found a gem of Web 2.0's starting years:

That is an anchient picture of my own forum software, DtDBB. The project actually matured far past that stage, but never grew into a full-fledged system. (You may notice it is topic 27956, that is thanks to spam bots that found it)

In other more interesting news, I've been working my butt off on the new DtD Software website, it might be ready soon. (Finnally.)

The new website theme wrapping has taken way longer than expected. Most of the remaining parts are really complicated, so it might still be a while.

As for DtDTD2. We're chugging along still. We've also settled on a release date: August, 2009.

~DtD

Well, technically I'm already late, but I've got good reasons!

The new website is coming along great! A bit back I said I was going to switch to Drupal, but after evaluating it I decided not to.

I evaluated Drupal, Joomla, XOOPS, and e107 (to name a few.) They all had some major problem with them, and for a while I thought I was going to use e107. However, I eventually had to drop it as well due to its theming system not working well with me. (It is still very young) Anyway, to keep it short, I have settled on using a modded phpBB as my CMS. Since the main issue with the other CMSes was that their forums were sub-part, out of date, or inconsistent; I think phpBB will be a great choice.

So, my main priority for the past week has been to make a DtD Software theme for phpBB. No, it won't be very different from the current one. However, I refuse to simply tweak some CSS colors and modify overall_header.html and overall_footer.html and such to make it look like my website. So I am creating a style from scratch mostly based on Prosilver's layout. I think it will be done or mostly done in a week.

~DtD

Time is the enemy, I've decided. But, we're all moving at full speed ahead now!

We have a piece of great music from our music artist, Halfway23, to share with you today.
And here it is!
Copyright © 2009 by DtD Software
Note: It is in OGG Vorbis format.*

Also, the engine is going along nicely. Pre-engine screenshots seem boring and make it look like I'm getting nothing done, but I really am!
Anyway, here it is:

In case you're wondering, yes we have more models than that one MAG tower, but this one is the one I use for testing.

Also, I promise to have the new website up by th end of the week!

~DtD
*So you'll need to get an audio player that can play it. See this page for Windows Media Player Codecs.

We had a fun attack of spammers on the forums recently (not that anyone used them anyway) more the reason to get off my lazy butt and finish the new website. (So people will actually want to come here!)

~DtD

As some of the more observent folk may have noticed, our website is powered by DtD Lacus, our little CMS. However, Lacus is just too small and featureless (or the features it does have are too unstable for a production website) so I have decided to kill the micro-management and replace Lacus with a new, developed CMS. I am thinking about Drupal, since it is supposed to be really nice and easy to extend...

Also, our concept artist for DtDTD2, who is also a pretty good advertising and marketing design guy, will be giving some input on the website design, which I will be redoing once again to support smaller screen resolutions. As always, we will make sure the website works as good as possible in Opera 9, Firefox 3, Safari, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 6 & 7 (even if it kills us.)

~DtD

bob has given up. After 155 days (22 weeks and a day) he just can't take it anymore. Insanity and terrible headaches will come to anyone who stays in confinement like that for so long. I know that I couldn't do it.

Even after all the trouble Nintendo has caused him, he still won't speak badly about Nintendo (well, ok. He did, but he always takes it back...kinda) He still claims it isn't Nintendo's fault that he doesn't have the SDK, when quite frankly it is.

Please send bob encouraging words at his website (his email is at the very bottom.)

Good luck bob! Hope you feel better soon! We at DtD Software still believe in you!

This poor guy works on a game for 5 years intending to get it on the Nintendo DS, just to have Nintendo to; no not decline his request, but instead ignore him half way through! Instead of giving him any straight answer, Nintendo just ignores him.

There have been several Indie Games and even a few Homebrews that have gotten Nintendo's blessing and moved on to the consoles commercially (isn't that what Wiiware is for, Nintendo?) One very notable one was World of Goo, which (I highly recomend you try right now if you haven't already.)

~DtD
Via GameProducer.Net

Merry Christmas Everyone!
I made a little thing in GIMP featuring another un-textured 3D model of an enemy from DtDTD2. This one is called "Sysnake".

(I know the tree is crap, but I'm not much of an artist.)

~DtD

Ok, I need to put something public up so I can stop getting emails about it.

StepMania: Wii has officially been canceled as a project by DtD Software.
For legal reasons (unique to us, someone else can still port StepMania) we will not be able to continue the project after DtD Tower Defense.

Also, I won't be releasing the source code for three reasons:
1) Most of my changes were directly to devKitPro and were quick-and-easy fixes to bugs that have probably been fixed by now.
2) It should be easier for another developer to port it because of the more mature homebrew community.
3) I just noticed that it got eaten by my recent hard drive reformat. (Tilde Virus, and it was long overdue for one anyway.)

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Over in happy fun-town land. We are expecting to be able to brag about DtD Tower Defense 2 more soon, and I am going to try to get a phpBB forum up sometime today!



~DtD