Yearly Website and Post Checkup
So…
I’d be surprised if anyone still checks this website. If you do, pat yourself on the back and brag about yourself to your buddies.
Anyway the pronouns for Vulpine have gone from “we” to “me.” It’s just the owner on the team (or just me). Everyone either gave up or got too lazy to work on the projects.
Before you freak out…
Radispook IS NOT ABANDONED!
Ok we can breathe now, don’t worry about Radispook being discarded or abandoned. Things are a little harder when you switch to a new engine and it’s just you in the big scary world of a new development environment. I sold my soul to make sure this game gets out. However the release date has stretched a little closer to the heat death of the universe. How is that for a unit of measurement? I’m American and I refuse to use anything remotely close to the metric or imperial system. Might as well measure the release date in fortnites or lightyears.
Jokes aside, things have gone from bad to worse but this has all been a big learning experience on my end. Trying to balance adulthood alongside game development, college, and therapy has become a bit of a juggle. I’m not gonna sugar coat the fact that I let you all down multiple times, that’s mostly on me. Anyway, I would be too powerful if I had an attention span so I got ADHD to counteract my wacky ass ideas n shit. However theres always a workaround for anything.
This is the part where I say I am working on another project thats smaller and may potentially abandon the idea. However, this statement is true as I am working on something on the side. I really don’t want to fuck up Radispook for a second time, I need the experience and time to find that sweet spot for the game.
Also, I am doing a bit of house-keeping on the website and forums as people who belong in a padded cell have been annoying as shit to deal with but hopefully thats out of the way for a while. Also the forums should be back open for logins. That is all I have to say really, gone are the days of fancy website blogs and in with the quirky ass text walls from yours truly. Also, I can publicly swear now since this isn’t the last website where I made games.
k, see y’all in a few months or something idfk.
-Knoo/ObrenTune whatever man
We Are Moving Platforms.
Hey everybody, it’s ObrenTune (Also known as V) here. As of March 10th 2022, I have retired from developing games on ROBLOX. This isn’t going to be a post about bashing anyone or some dramatic sob story so I’ll give you the reasons why I am retiring from developing games on ROBLOX.
Company Transparency
As we all know, ROBLOX isn’t very open with what they announce or do publicly. At any given moment in time they could release an update that could prove troublesome for developers or catch people off guard and potentially hurt developers who aren’t aware of what has been changed in their guidelines.
Account Protection Instability
One thing that stressed me out about ROBLOX everyday was the fact that one day my account could just vanish and the company could run away with all of the Robux I have not devexed with no guaranteed way to get it back. I could get banned for a decal that I have posted ages ago and could now be a symbol of hate due to the ever-changing culture of the internet, it sounds absurd but it is a possibility. The fact that my account safety isn’t guaranteed but feels like a waiting game to get deleted over anything they deemed to break their terms of service was not a nice feeling to have.
Rash & Immature Decisions
I would like to state that this does not serve any solid evidence or any kind of factual information but rather from what I have gathered. Going back to the Rubensim case ROBLOX had a few months ago, ROBLOX accused Rubensim of unlawful actions against their website and demanding court case action which was ultimately dropped. I felt like ROBLOX had charged into this unknowingly and was unprepared as some of the accusations they held against Rubensim were bizarre and unlikely.
Another case of bad decisions was to allow APM music to get added to the website while letting a robot do all the work. Recently as of 3/9/2022 ROBLOX has unleashed a copyright wave of music & audio due to another lawsuit from multiple music corporations. I did hear that some developers were getting banned for audio they have made themselves without any copyrighted content. I unfortunately do not have any evidence to back this up so please do not take my word, it is just concerning that this may be a possibility and my account could perhaps be in danger.
How ROBLOX Can Improve Themselves
I don’t want to talk about the negative aspects of ROBLOX and leave it at that like most drama related celebrities surrounding the ROBLOX platform. I’d like to provide some insight on how they can improve themselves.
Recently they have been making strides to improve the developer experience for the website and catering to the hard-working content providers and developers alike by improving their devex system and removing the system where you have to spend money to make money. I am happy that ROBLOX is moving forward by helping the people that make their website stand on two legs. Unfortunately for me, the cut that I make under what ROBLOX provides developers after their marketplace fee is not feasible to live off of. I’m looking forward to seeing a change in the devex rates in the future. I hope they are able to improve the content filtering and moderation so innocent developers aren’t devestated by the auto-moderation.
That is all I have to say about the company of ROBLOX and I wish to see them continue improving their platform experience for developers and content creators.
Mental Health
I’ve been developing games on ROBLOX for about 7 years, and I believe I finally deserve a retirement from the website, I am in my twenties and personally it feels weird to be playing a kids game aimed at a much younger audience. I also have experienced almost everything the ROBLOX website and community has to offer to me. The stress caused from the points above contribute greatly to the degradation of my mental health and I believe I need to pull myself away from this website and spread my wings elsewhere. I’m excited to use my skills that I have picked up from ROBLOX to provide a more solid foundation moving forward into another game engine.
What’s Going To Happen To Radispook/Corporeal Ascension?
I’ve made a promise to get Radispook and Corporeal Ascension out so I will continue to develop these projects offsite. I am very excited to tackle these projects as I have more options available to me as a developer! So yeah, no need to worry. Radispook & Corporeal Ascension are going to get developed, it may also take a while. Unfortunately many of the developers are sticking with ROBLOX to finish their own personal projects so I wish them the best of luck!
What To Be Concerned About?
Nothing really, we’re just moving our work elsewhere so our projects may take a little longer than usual :)
Anyway I’m wishing you all a wonderful day and I wish the best of luck to developers on the ROBLOX platform.
-ObrenTune
New Year, New Us, Big Plans
First I’d like to take a moment and say…
🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!🎉
YOU MADE IT AND YOU SHOULD BE PROUD OF YOURSELF!!!
Here’s to a hopefully prosperous 2022!
Ok, now to the meat of this topic post.
Anyway, it’s been one hell of a year for all of us, even here at VD.
We laugh, we cried, we even lost some of our own along the way. But what’s important is that we’re still one small happy family. Last year we saw our big show off with what we can do as a team through the KToH Live Event. We shattered personal records with our first ever project, might even consider that as a one hit wonder. We’re still motivated as ever and super thankful that everyone that follows us and enjoyed what we have to offer to you all. You Cannot Segway will be deeply missed but as the saying goes; “you win some and you lose some”. Fortunately, we didn’t get ourselves bankrupt with YCS and we got to live to fight another day. In the end it was a learning experience for all of us here at VD. Any way last year was the Year of The Tower in our book, and this year will be the year of the Radispook here at VD.
Now for a paragraph based on Radispook solely (Hooray!)
We have a lot of exciting plans for Radispook this year, we’re gonna focus all of VD’s resources onto this game. We’re talking more interesting/entertaining mechanics, more weapons, mobile support, and catering because we know not everyone here can afford/have access to a computer. Another thing is that we’ll make sure the game is balanced and fun for both teams. We’re looking to have our mobile community provide feedback for this project so it can be a fun experience for everyone.
Also, how about some live events in the future? Maybe you can snag yourself a once in a lifetime event item. We’re gonna give the event the same love and effort we showcased in the KToH Live Event, perhaps even better?
To end of this blogpost, the road ahead for us is unexplored and exciting. We are gonna remain vigilant and motivated throughout the entirety of this year to deliver you all one hell of a game. We’ll be sure to keep you all updated here and on our social media!
As a personal note, I am more than happy to be able to transform Radispook into something bigger, better, and possibly a game for everyone to enjoy. I don’t want to be a heartless project manager that only sees the profit in our work. A game composed for money is no game in my book and lacks a soul. As sad as it is, it’s a tough market out there and you gotta make ends meet somehow. I landed myself a lucky position with this tower game biz that I started and I want to put forth that gift into something for everyone again. Radispook will be a game built and hand crafted with love where-ever you look. Believe me, I am as excited as you are and how much you want play this game. Shoot, even I’m excited to play Radispook when it comes out. I’d love to be able to replay a classic from the good days once again.
Hope to see you when Radispook gets released!
With love,
-Vulpine Digital
Saying Goodbye to YCS.
Putting the project to rest... Hey everyone! Unfortunately, You cannot segway has come to an end and will no longer be worked on by the VD team. We are fully dropping the project and we will no longer make updates towards it nor will we be re-releasing the project.
What's next? Fortunately, we will take this time to gather our thoughts and begin to make progress towards RADISPOOK! We will be taking community feedback and will slowly work our way into putting Radispook back to its former glory! As for now, stay tuned for updates!!
-ObrenTune & Cosmental
You Cannot Segway Beta Is Coming
Look at all these segways, even the community made some!
It’s been a while since our last post on the website
Hey everyone we’re excited to announce an update coming to YCS, our first project to be done for VD. What started out as a joke from a movie night now became a fully blown game! Anyway, we have taken some aspects of the game from Alpha and made them better in the upcoming Beta. We cannot wait to release YCS in the beta as think you’ll enjoy it. Feel free to spread the word and grab your friends as you try to run away from friends and foes alike!
Yeah you get to run from a mall cop in some old ruins cause why not?
Check out the new lobby we designed! Maybe you will discover something interesting?
Other things to note:
Once the game gets a full release, the project page for YCS will be updated and feature some fancy bells and whistles in the future to come.
It will contain some cool stuff and everything you need to know, possibly some teasers for something deeper.
Stay tuned!
-V
You Cannot Segway + Community News!
YOU WILL NOT SEGWAY
Howdy all!
We apologize for the lack up an update for the past 2 weeks, but rest is assured we have been doing a lot of work!
We have made a semi playable version of YCS and we plan to keep adding more up until it’s release. There are a lot of bugs that need to be ironed out along with some playtesting to make sure the experience is enjoyable! Last week there was a bit of testing done for the game, the game is still open but it may be closed from the general public soon.
What else?
There is a lot I have wanted to talk about regarding VD, the website, and our lovely community. So I’ll start off with the VD part.
We are moving all of our projects from the other groups onto our Vulpine Digital ROBLOX group. This was done for ease of access for everyone including the employees. The other groups will remain online and may receive update posts or other things. But Vulpine Digital is where you want to be.
For the website, I have done a bit of house keeping on it along with our forums, I know people on the forums have been complaining about the bot accounts joining and taking up space. Fortunately I have found a way to stop them, the bad news is that it was quite expensive and we may rely on our projects to account for that purchase. The forums should be good for a long time and I HEAVILY encourage you to sign up and make an account and socialize with the rest of our community.
Now the segway into the community portion of the post:
So for the forums since they are safe as of now I may consider hosting events and gamenights with precise dates in the general category. Also here is the cool part of this, if you want to apply for early access and testing for benefits be sure to keep an eye out in our news forum along with our blog here on the main website! Once a few of our projects release we may look to hire moderators for both the games and forums. We hope to have a fantastic crew to work with in the future.
Now For Some Pictures!
Who doesn’t like pictures?
A VD themed segway just for you, just join our ROBLOX group!
:troll:
Oh no theres more segways, customization probably?
There’s nowhere to run Snowman, you cannot segway.
Well that’s all we have to talk about really. We’re still working on stuff! Thank you for reading!
-V
We’re getting closer!
YOU CANNOT SEGWAY
Not just yet…
Hello, we are making quick progress underway regarding YCS. We are having fun working on it and we’d like to keep you all entertained just for the fun of it. We’re planning on releasing with one or two maps.
Here is one below
Some of you might be wondering what the game might be about and how it works. So we’re gonna take some time on designing a teaser trailer with some jokes and whatnot in it. Just be sure to keep an eye on our Youtube channel!
Feel free to talk about the game in our forums!
Once we’re confident in our game, we’ll drop a release date on the games page in the Projects tab!
Hope to see you soon!
-V
Live Event Discussion + New Project Sneak-peak
SMASHING SUCCESS!!!
With the massive success our live event entitled us with along with the end of an era. We are working on another game just for you all!
Some of us would like to say something about VD or the Live Event
“Building both the tower and the platform was pretty fun and I’m glad everyone enjoyed it” - Megakirbyyy (Builder)
“The overwhelming positive attention and feedback I got for my songs is something I've never felt before.” - HazelFoxi (Music Artist)
“We were all super excited when releasing this! It was a dream come true to see everyone working together and persevering through the challenges of the event. Hope to bring more fun to you all in the future!!” - Demah_XI (Builder)
“Animating Phase 1 and Phase 2 was a very fun opportunity and I enjoyed doing some experimenting with trying to efficiently loop animations (mostly involving the phase 2 idle, in which I nailed it looking smooth, the most tough part was the cutscene animations, in which I wasn't sure how was I going to do them until learning that I could cut it into different segments to save much time. I hope that everyone liked my very special fighting stance, in which it was the “Attack Helicopter”, referencing the old KToH days. But I do hope everyone is hyped to see what we have in store next ;)” - drewbyskitten (Animator)
“It was really fun to bring together the animations and attacks, and even though I was very anxious about the event breaking due to a constant stream of game breaking bugs it somehow managed to work perfectly at the end” - birb_gamer (Programmer)
“The event was awesome, nothing like anything we've ever seen before! This experience was made with so much care and passion... I hope it inspires others to deliver their projects with much more swag! B)” -FRANCOJ1119 (Trailer/Video Man)
We’re not gonna stop there, we’re gonna keep pushing forward and bring forth some great content.-
“Uh, V? We’re broke after the live event funding”
“Well, what do we have left? Lets use the rest of that!”
“W h a t i s t h i s?”
“Trust me I know what im doing! We’re gonna need uh.. A trailer! Yeah, that will work and some uh cool music.”
Coming Soon!
Be sure to watch our YT channel and ROBLOX group for any updates or videos!
We need a bit more time.
Hey, we were pretty excited by all of the positive feedback on our trailer and we hope to keep that positivity. Due to some constraints, our live event wont be able to release on time. We would like our event to be the best it could ever be, so we don’t want to cram everything in before our intended date. Remember the last time we had a rushed event update, (Christmas 2018) those were spooky times. Also we have received complaints from our overseas friends regarding the event so in our down time we’d like to arrange 2 more dates where our friends overseas can experience the awesomeness of our live event. We also have gotten requests for Xbox support, so we’re looking to push to support that small portion of it. Also we wanted to allot ourselves a day of bug-testing to prevent further issues but it’s very challenging. All we ask for is a week from the original intended date (July 3rd, 6:00PM CDT). In the mean time we will be working on this update and planning other dates out for you all that are not in American time zones. Sorry for the inconvenience and we hope you understand.
-The VD Team
The End Is Near
The Final Stretch Live Event Trailer - YouTube
After hours of work and coordination we are happy to present you with a live trailer for our event.
Be ready to expect the inevitable in this live event brought to you by the VD team.
This reality is fragile and it is not here to last, KToH is going out with a bang.
Here is the game place: https://www.roblox.com/games/427657430
Our forums are back up!
Whats good yall?
Unfortunately all data for our last forum provider is gone. Fortunately this other forum provider is just as fantastic if not better in most aspects!
We have a ton of new fancy features and a new layout it might take a while to get used too but it should be easy for you to learn.
You can begin making your account here
Thank you for your patience and we hope to see you soon!
NOTE: When making an account the email may take a while to send. After making your account, head to the login page and click resend. It should take 5-20 minutes, apologies for the slight inconvenience.
We’ll be experiencing some down time
Howdy, we are in the process of transferring to a new forum service so the website may be unavailable, explode, or something else bizarre. Should be back up in a few days or so. Maintenance will be off and on regularly without notice.
A Small ARG Just For You!
Howdy, I figured hosting a small ARG that spans across this website would be fun. But where to start?
Possibly one of the updates in this link could be the answer, perhaps an old man may give it to you?
Your prize may be a bit of a spoiler for something, but well deserved :eyes:
Let the hunt begin!
Push The Box Gets An Update!
Howdy y’all, after a few months we finally got some content pushed out for Push The Box! For those who are testers we’ll go over what to expect in this new update.
New Map: Seaside Lighthouse
This map offers a bit of a challenge, the PB Co. crew will need to carry up 3 shipments of various goods to the top of the light house, just be careful to not lose your grip on any of the crates when you are carrying them. “Wait wh-”
New Mechanic: Box Lifting
This has been planned for some time and it opens up a whole new window of opportunities for missions. You can still push the box, but why would you do that, carrying it is easier!
This weekend, we plan to polish what we just added so when the game hits the public it will be presentable.
Anyway thank you for your patience, the VD team and I are looking forward to getting this game out for you all to enjoy.
As for now, if you are a tester. Feel free to make a thread in the PTB topic and give us some feedback once you check out this new update!
-V
Vulpine Digital Gets A Forum
So I’ve decided I would like to compensate for the discord by having a forum. Would still like to interact with the community in some sort of a way. Sure as hell might beat a discord server in the long run. Unfortunately this is quite the hole in the pocket so we are currently using a trial. I’ll try to find a way to lower the annual price. I might look into ads but those get annoying. Funny enough its how I found out how to make this website so not all global ads are evil k’neevil.
It’s Raining Fives!
Just a little post from the CEO of this quiet team. Would just like to say that we are happy to see the first portion of our event have a successful release! Albeit we had a few hiccups regarding platforming but we’re genuinely happy to see members old and new of tower platforming give positive feedback. That’s just what I’ve heard from my team! Anyway we’d like to introduce a little someone, we figured we’d like to give our team a face that people could recognize. So we’d like to introduce our mascot Nascosto! You probably saw him on this update post. He’s a quiet dude and he likes it that way, he’s proud to represent our posts and website. Anyway about the post name, we’re excited to see our website break a little over half of a thousand visits. It brings me joy to see that people here are actively checking out this website. We are here to deliver awesome, rich, and juicy news of our projects. Feel free to spread the news of our website around, we’d be more than happy to have more people hear about us. Or not, the quiet is pretty cool too!
As a little reward for the positivity we received from our tower release, we’d like to find an award for y’all. That is if we get the last part of this live event out. We just got to find a reasonable award to give you all. NOTE: This reward and event is in no way affiliated with any other game, just to clean up the confusion. We may not even have a reward, it’s the thought that counts. Kindness is a dying virtue nowadays.
To end it off a clean note, we hope to see you in the next portion of the live event!
pssst. we have a 404 page if you want to find that, also a page related to a certain /oldbren, go find him :)
The Final St- Five Year Tower!
We’re pretty sure it’s obvious for everyone at this point, but shoot. 5 Years, what a long time. We are glad to be able to execute this update to the game and have it go out with a bang! This tower offers quite the challenge compared to Tower of Hell(The Tower). But we are certain you can beat it. There is still time left, but from what? As unusual as it sounds there’s an evil stirring around the world, so be prepared. People have pointed out a mysterious chamber somewhere in the map which may be a hint towards it’s coming, time is ticking. Things are going to be spooky so be there or be square!
It’s just around the corner!
Hello, we figured we would post a bit of a teaser regarding the new tower. Anyway here are a bit of details about it that may catch your attention.
There are a total of 11 floors, why 11? Well remember the tower that was short 1 floor? Obren thought it would be perfect to owe back that floor to everyone by putting it in The Five Year Tower. There are a lot of references both old and new related to KToH and some of the memes that were present during it’s time. Obren would also like to say that keeping the music as mashups and anything memetic would fit the theme of the tower.
We hope to see you this Friday at 6:00PM CDT
-Vulpine Digital
We’re still around.
An honest and fully transparent status on the recent issues.
Another Discord deletion?
We’d like to be transparent about the recent issues lately. Due to the awful service and support we both have received from Discord and Twitter. We have decided to move updates regarding our projects and personal blogs to here where we can think in peace. Regarding the community server, due to an issue with a certain member correlating with the twitter platform. We have in return got no help whatsoever from Twitter regarding the issue of Impersonation and Asset theft. So we figured we would delete the server, but due to complications, discord has locked the owner of VD out of their account and there is no way to access the rest of the community. As for our secluded Minecraft server, we would love to keep it up still so our loyal community can be entertained up to the release of one of our projects. As for all the issues lately we would like to apologize, but some things can’t be avoided in this Digital age we live in.
And for the KToH Event?
We’re still working hard on it, we’re expecting to release the Final Tower on Friday June 11th, 2021 6:00PM CDT. But that is not the only thing we have planned, if you look around enough you might find a few things out of the Ordinary. So stay tuned!