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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: achtung on November 19, 2005, 11:38:30 pm

Title: Volition's Site
Post by: achtung on November 19, 2005, 11:38:30 pm: Apparently it's been updated and a new look has been applied.

http://www.volition-inc.com/
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Charismatic on November 19, 2005, 11:49:05 pm: Wow. I was expecting it to be the same blah mesh its been for pervious years, for ever. This certinly is a good sign.
Yay a FS tab!

Sad tho most of the origional staff of FS2 dont work at V no more..
EDIT: Aww, no FS site.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Galemp on November 20, 2005, 12:04:29 am: Interesting as a template, needs more content though.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: achtung on November 20, 2005, 03:22:33 am: Quote from: Galemp on November 20, 2005, 12:04:29 am
Interesting as a template, needs more content though.

Yes, definitley. IMO they should update all the sites too.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Black Wolf on November 20, 2005, 09:00:40 am: Quote from: Charismatic on November 19, 2005, 11:49:05 pm

Sad tho most of the origional staff of FS2 dont work at V no more..
EDIT: Aww, no FS site.

Yes, they do, and yes, there is.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Charismatic on November 20, 2005, 11:05:30 am: Really? I guess i was misinformed. Sorry. What is link to the FS site, for me its not showing.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Mongoose on November 20, 2005, 12:57:54 pm: Some Descent pimpage.../me approves :)
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: [DW]-Hunter on November 21, 2005, 01:51:03 pm: looks like they still havent updated their fs2 site :( too bad
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: IceFire on November 21, 2005, 07:58:37 pm: Quote from: Charismatic on November 19, 2005, 11:49:05 pm
Wow. I was expecting it to be the same blah mesh its been for pervious years, for ever. This certinly is a good sign.
Yay a FS tab!

Sad tho most of the origional staff of FS2 dont work at V no more..
EDIT: Aww, no FS site.
Mmm nope...there are plenty of familiar names still working there. FreeSpace's creator Adam Pletcher still there, Anoop and Sandeep Shekar still there, Alan Lawrence, Nick Lee, Mike Breault, James Tsai, Dan Wentz (music and sound!) and probably more that I can no longer remember. All of these guys had a hand (some big, some small) in the creation of FreeSpace, FreeSpace 2, and quite a few of these guys are still around from the Descent days that kicked everything off. Plus you have Mike Kulas who is still president. I'd say if they went back to make another FreeSpace game that we'd be in great hands with the vast majority of the original team with that original spirit.

Beating my own chest here for a second but keep in mind that I've met most of these guys (most just for a minute or two)...particularly Adam Pletcher who I grilled (:)) on why he made FreeSpace and Mike Kulas on what it is to be president of a games development house like Volition. Plus myself and many of the members of the Volition Watch website went and ate lunch at the infamous Papa Dell's pizza parlour :)

Them's were the days....wow that takes me back.

*IceFire goes off on a flashback*
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Goober5000 on November 21, 2005, 09:16:08 pm: Also Mark Allender, Dave Andsager, Dave Baranec, Brad Johnson, Jason Scott, and Jasen Whiteside. So we have most of the old guard still there. :)

Notably missing from the list, however, are Jim Boone and James Agay, two of the major forces in Freespace mission design. :(

As I see it, the three core people required to make Freespace 3 are Adam Pletcher (original concept), Jason Scott (story writer), and Mike Kulas (making things click together). Brad Johnson (mission design), Dave Baranec (code) and Dan Wentz (music) are also major pluses. So we're safe yet. :)

And by the way, they got the Freespace site back up. :)
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Polpolion on November 21, 2005, 09:19:15 pm: Makes the game look 'new'. Or at least not made in 1999.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: achtung on November 22, 2005, 10:23:32 pm: *sniffle*

:v: still cares :)
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Setekh on November 22, 2005, 11:39:34 pm: Looks pretty cool, but:

Quote from: www.freespace2.com
Sorry, but there is no news for FreeSpace 2 at this time.

No news, my arse. :p
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: achtung on November 23, 2005, 12:31:20 am: They should just set up an RSS feed and display HLP's news on the FS2 page :p

*(Isn't sure if he said that right)
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: karajorma on November 23, 2005, 10:28:14 am: Quote from: Swantz on November 22, 2005, 10:23:32 pm
*sniffle*

:v: still cares :)

Given the critical acclaim FS2 has gained :v: would be fools not to put it up on their website :) It would be like Spielberg writing out his CV and only putting War of the Worlds, The Terminal and Catch Me If You Can on it cause everything else is too old. :D
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Carl on November 26, 2005, 06:35:10 pm: *Carl frantically searched for the new VBB*

*fails* :(
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Solatar on November 26, 2005, 07:56:46 pm: I just downloaded the Freespace 1 Demo, since it was only 25 megs. Brings back memories...I still remember that conversation with a friend.

*talking about games*
-so, you ever played Freespace?
-yeah, it's awesome. You played Freespace 2?
-....there's a Freespace 2?
-yep
-*me runs off and buys*
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Charismatic on November 26, 2005, 08:51:15 pm: So the VBB, :v: 's forums right? Why did they go bye bye? Any word of them comeing back?
Sorry i was not around. But what was after the VBB? There was, for all i know, VBB then a 2nd, then VW, and then HLP. Someone correct me \ give detialz plz.

EDIT: Wtf! CLick on games, then fs2. there is NO text. Very little text for FS2 also. What the hell are they doing.. asholes.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Unknown Target on November 26, 2005, 09:18:57 pm: The VBB was closed down due to rampant, and I mean rampant unmoderation - there was no moderation on those forums, and :v: didn't want to deal with it. After the VBB, the community migrated either to VW or HLP (like myself).
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: CP5670 on November 26, 2005, 10:54:27 pm: No kidding. Anyone remember RJM and Hemaroid Frog Butt? It took them almost four days for them to ban these guys after they started their spamming. :p
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Nuclear1 on November 26, 2005, 11:55:31 pm: Was anyone one of those two involved with the BOSCHBOSCHBOSCHBOSCHBOSCHBOSCH scheme, or was that someone else? :p
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: achtung on November 27, 2005, 01:17:32 am: All of you veterans should write a sort of history section in the wiki. Covering all major events from VBB to present day.

I would read it :D
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Carl on December 08, 2005, 09:28:17 am: Quote from: CP5670 on November 26, 2005, 10:54:27 pm
Anyone remember Hemaroid Frog Butt?

arrgh, yes i do. They couldn't have cleaned that place up if they had tried.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: aldo_14 on December 08, 2005, 09:56:22 am: I love the way the list of games on the frontpage get progressively more generic as you move forward in time........
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Unknown Target on December 08, 2005, 01:12:51 pm: Quote from: CP5670 on November 26, 2005, 10:54:27 pm
No kidding. Anyone remember RJM and Hemaroid Frog Butt? It took them almost four days for them to ban these guys after they started their spamming. :p

Read the original HLP movie! :D

Quote from: Swantz on November 27, 2005, 01:17:32 am
All of you veterans should write a sort of history section in the wiki. Covering all major events from VBB to present day.

I would read it :D

Ditto, although it only loosely follows the events, and only really in the beginning :D
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: LOA--Paul on December 09, 2005, 05:36:04 pm: TELL A STORY THREAD
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: Carl on December 10, 2005, 05:57:51 pm: Once upon a time some one did something and something fell on someone and did something else.
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: achtung on December 10, 2005, 07:58:17 pm: Quote from: Carl on December 10, 2005, 05:57:51 pm
Once upon a time some one did something and something fell on someone and did something else.

*moderate applause* :yes:
Title: Re: Volition's Site
Post by: CP5670 on December 10, 2005, 10:41:12 pm: Quote from: Carl on December 10, 2005, 05:57:51 pm
Once upon a time some one did something and something fell on someone and did something else.

I've always wondered, did you get your name from that thread or were you already registered as Carl when it started?