Hello everyone!

This is a different post from my usual posts. Though we really wish to remain neutral politically, this bill (Stop Online Piracy Act/Protect IP Act) would hurt EVERYONE who uses the internet. What it would do is make every website on the internet be censored, so if any content, or bits of content that are copyrighted that are posted on a website, the poster of the content would go to jail, then and there, without warning. In addition to this, it would ruin global freedom throughout the internet. Actually, scratch that, it would ruin the internet in general.

We are officially taking a stance against SOPA/PIPA. We are not going to stand idly while the United States government turns the internet into another one of their pawns. We join with our brothers and sisters across the internet to protest the ludicrous atrocities that the government of the United States is trying to pass. We only wish we had taken part in a protest against the NDAA 2012, which allows the US government to imprison US citizens suspected of "terrorist acts" indefinitely without a trial, regardless of whether or not they were on US soil - that bill has already been passed, and that's why we will be attempting to take our operation outside of the US in the near future.

Unlike many of our brethren across the internet, we are not blacking out our website completely. Instead, we're trying to make it as annoying as possible to use this site, by placing hyperlinked banners across the entire site; we believe this would be more effective, as, instead of people just leaving the site, they might accidentally click on one of the banners instead.

Please, join with us, and our brothers-in-arms to defeat SOPA! Sign the petition at http://americancensorship.org !

Hey all, been a while since I've written one of these! :P Anyways, I've decided to update you guys on a few things behind-the-scenes. First off, although I haven't been updating anyone on newer game productions, I will state that we are working on some pretty cool stuff, including what may be our largest game yet. We contacted Wigshop Records a while back about maybe using ES Posthumus songs in Ilxder: the Adventure Begins. (Still waiting for a response there :P )

On the job/team aspect - we're no longer taking on ANYONE who wants to join. We now are only taking on ones who seem passionate, determined, dedicated, and hard-working. We still DO NOT take into account their experience (unless they have no experience in ANY of the openings ;) ), but rather those four factors. We have a position open for an internal architect/mentor whom would help train the people with lesser experience how to work with some of the stuff, so if you enjoy acting like a mentor/teacher and you have EXTENSIVE knowledge in game programming and design, check it out! :) See, we don't believe in the saying "Beggars can't be choosers" for two reasons. 1) We're not begging for team members, and 2) We believe that only the most passionate, determined, dedicated, and hard-working individuals are the ones that a team should have. Numbers don't make much of a difference if you've a team that's so dedicated and passionate. ;)

And here's a very minor website upgrade - we fixed an odd bug in the logo. We fixed it so it's much more smooth-looking.

Anyways, that's it for now! Stay tuned, oh wait, this isn't a radio station... watch this space for more blogs and updates!

    Well, I'm sure you've seen the new site design. ;) We've been working on this for a bit, and it's the first time we've done a major upgrade to the site since it was first launched. I'll explain the way we've upgraded it in the following paragraphs.

    1. We upgraded the theme. The old site theme was beginning to look a bit jumbled, non-professional, and quite frankly, hard on the eyes. The new theme is much more smooth and streamlined. We also updated the logo to the site.

    2. We updated many layouts on the site. Beforehand, our site was very boring. No images, barely any color, etc. This was due to our attempts to make a professional-looking site. Unfortunately, we were so concerned about making our site look more and more professional that it ended up being so boring. We re-worked the games and projects section of the site, giving it a nicer-looking and better layout. With the games, we've included a preview screenshot, as well as basic info about the games, the status of their development, links to any related sites, as well as a link to download it if a download is available.

    3. We updated the Help Us Out page so it's a bit more, what we call, candidate-friendly. It no longer requires you to look through a bunch of lines of text to just find the one position you're looking for. We may add a search box to give you the ability to look for a specific position. We also formatted the appearance of the text as well.

    4. We've reworked the downloads page to be mainly for everything except games. We've also modified the appearance a bit. However, we have kept the original game downloads on this page as well as on the Games page, and we will continue to do so.

    5. We've redone the community page. This gives us the opportunity to save you the trouble of going here and there looking for links to our community sites.

    6. We've also updated some minor things as we saw fit.

    We also have plans to create a better, more helpful Voluntary QA page. These plans include putting more useful tools into your hands.

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    Game-wise, we have a couple of updates. I feel it has been a long enough wait. THE LONG-AWAITED TITLE OF PROJECT PHEONIX IS.... Ilxder: The Adventure Begins! As I've mentioned before, there are plans for a sequel, so I decided to go with a per-se franchise name of "The Ilxder Series". I also got tired of people telling me that Pheonix was misspelled. ;) (Also, considering that phoenixes don't have a whole lot of place in the plot of The Adventure Begins, it seemed a better idea to NOT keep the name of Project Pheonix) Here's a bit more news about The Adventure Begins - although there's quite a bit to be done before the 1.0 release, we will probably only release one more demo before 1.0! :) Thank you all for your support over the past two years - it's all about to pay off. :)

    We also have our teams working on another pretty large project. I'm not revealing many details, as we want it to be a surprise. :) However, I will say this - if everything works out as planned, it will be the biggest project we've completed yet. ;)

    I've temporarily delayed any further development with Ancient Palace until I sort out the teams a little differently.

    I'm personally working on another project with Zach. All I'll say about it is that it takes place in space. ;)

    Bringing up an old idea: Gamini Games. Although we're holding onto the name and the rights, we've decided to just post any of our games on our own game section here on our current main site. We may even redo the games and projects section completely to look more like a games portal.

    We hope to create some browser-based games at some point. Although we currently have no plans to make them extremely big, we might have them created so there could be 8-16 player tournament modes! :)

    Well, that's all for now! I hope you enjoy the new site, and watch this space for any more behind-the-scenes updates! :)

Hello everyone! I am just here to inform you that I have discontinued the development of Project Pheonix TEMPORARILY. I got a new laptop, so I need to transfer the files from my old one to my new one. I can't seem to find my flash drive, so I haven't gotten around to it. :P Once I transfer the files, I will get back to work and try to develop Demo Phase 3 and release it before Thanksgiving at the latest.


Dimension Softworks still needs more programmers. If you are knowledgeable with any programming languages, please feel free to contact our recruitment department by sending a career request on our Help Out? page.


As some of you may have noticed, we have had a recent spike in members on our official forums. Don't get extremely excited, as we have ruled out 2 of them already as spam-bots. In speaking of the forums, I am going to inform you all that I am still working on our new forums, but the progress was set back. The story goes ;) :

I had Mark set up a forum for me, but he accidentally deleted it, and he couldn't get it to re-upload. So, I went to our forum mod, ford1001, and asked him if he could do it for me. He set one up, and I am currently working on it again, and it should be out before the end of the month, if all goes well.


Happy gaming!
-Jake

We have contacted Dot TK about our forum issue, and they have replied to us, asking what domains we are using. We hope that this will help us with the rest of our issues, so everything will be normal again.

-Jake

Well, as we have mentioned, we are creating a new forum for any new sign-ups. There is a new issue with that. Just as we were really close to the release date, our host accidentally deleted all forum-related files. This means we have to redesign the forum. We have set up a temporary forum with SMFNew, which will be used by our members until our better forum is finished. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The old forum, joquanproforums.tk, may not be recovered. We are having trouble getting SMF for Free to reply to our messages, which is making us nervous. I guess 2010 IS the Year of Revolution, especially for us. Not only have we excelled farther than ever before, but we also have had the most trouble than ever before. Rest assured, everything will be fine, it will just take time. :)

-Jake

Well, in addition to Dimension Softworks, there is a new possibility that Joquan Games Studios will be joining with iBaron Media. This will give us an opportunity to expand, and get going faster. They help with Joquan Games Studios, we help out with iBaron. We will have about 45% of the ownership of iBaron, and they will have 45% of Joquan Games Studios. However, I am still the owner, so they won't have power over me. If there is something that they try to do that I don't think should be done, it is finished; vetoed.

In addition, I am still working on releasing a new demo of Project Pheonix. The trouble is, this time, there may not be much new in terms of gameplay and features. There may be a new full-sized city, and maybe a few new quests. CONTACT ME THROUGH THE APPLICATION FORM IF YOU KNOW HOW TO PROGRAM GAMES WITH JAVASCRIPT! I am still learning it all, so for now, I can do some really basic programming, but nothing too advanced like battle systems, RPG events, etc.

I have yet another top secret project to do with websites right now. I will announce more when the time is closer.

-Jake

Even though this is a nice site, we are planning on making an even nicer one with Visual Web Developer. We have a shortage of web developers, so this will work as our temporary site until we can get more.

-Jake

EDIT - We have decided to use this as our full-time site. We are possibly going to be upgrading to Weebly Pro soon, which means tons of new features for us to use. :)