Hi Damien, Sorry to hear you go, but the best of luck with your future endeavors whatever those may be. I wish you and your wife the best of luck.
cheers! On 12/17/13, Damien C. Pendleton <dam...@x-sight-interactive.net> wrote: > Hi folks, > Unfortunately, as of January 5, 2014, X-Sight Interactive will be closing > its doors. > Due to the high demands for games with better storylines, advanced > navigation, high quality audio, and extra extensive support features such as > 3d audio and online multiplayer capabilities, our current titles have not > been meeting the high quality standards both we and our user base expect. As > a result we are caught up in a chicken-egg circle where we are trying to > create titles with the few resources we currently have at our disposal, and > trying to sell them. Even then, despite a lot of time, effort and money put > towards these titles, we have still not even met the expected figures. This > means that other expenses such as new sound effects, voice actors and server > costs, are coming from personal funds alone. > Since 2006 I have, more often than not, had a team of people who have > assisted me greatly in my desire to create audiogames. However, very > recently, my entire team is no more, either due to other commitments, or > discontent with the state of events here. This means that the entire > responsibility of running X-Sight Interactive has fallen to myself, the > founder and, once project manager, now sole survivor, so to speak. > Consequently things have gone downhill in a major way, both from a business > and personal perspective, and, based on the fact that I am a married man > with a family to support, I have neither time nor money enough to continue > to keep up a project that was once a dream, which has now turned into a > financial nightmare. > Up until January 5, 2014, we are offering our two commercial products, > X-Wheel and Active Soundscape Engine, at a heavily reduced price (roughly a > 70% discount) of $5.00 and $3.50 respectively. > After january 5 all product support and marketing will cease, at which point > our free title, River Raiders, will be transferred to my personal website at > www.dcpendleton.co.uk, services such as the scoreboards will remain active > until January 20. > I'd like to thank all our former development and testing teams (Casey > Matthews, Ryan Conroy, Richard and Rachael Claridge, Quinten Pendle, Kelly > Sapergia, Munawar Bijani, Vincent Rikotta, Cory Sharp, Humphrey Clement, > Shaun Edwards, Eric Baud, Joseli Walter, Louis Bryant, Michael Forzano and > Matthew Horspool). Special thanks goes to Ian Paget, Peter Bryenton, Sean > Randall, Philip Bennefall, Jayne Holden, and last but not least, my wife, > Josie Pendleton. > Most of all, my sincere grattitude and appreciation go to the people whom it > would be futile to try and name, you. The community who have downloaded, > purchased or otherwise played our games, contributed donations, sensible > suggestions, constructive criticisms, encouragements, feedback, moral > support etc. Without you, I would not have been able to carry on for as long > as I have and it is mainly for this reason that I feel sad to say I have to > go. > I wish you all the best of happiness and luck for the future, whatever you > do and wherever you go, and again, thank you so much for making this past > eight years a pleasure for me, even if it hasn’t led us in the direction we > expected it to. > Cheers. > Kind regards, > Damien C.S. Pendleton. > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
