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Guard House/Shack for TGEA/TGE Now Available!

I just finished a small building content pack for TGE/A but can easly be converted over for T3d. The pack is a small guard house/shack that is no longer being used. Taken me about a month off and on to work on it, now I have it completed.

Author Will Zettler Date 06/01/2009 (8:14 pm) Comment 3 comments

Digital Lightstorm Forums Now open!

Just a small blog to let everyone know our forums are now open at Digital Lightstorm Studio for Beta testing if anyone wants to come on over and test em out. Topics range from general chat to TGB, TGEA and T3d public forums for those of us who are using the new toolset. Hoping to have the forums fully up and running in the next few weeks.

Author Will Zettler Date 05/31/2009 (1:05 pm) Comment 3 comments

Digital Lightstorm's Move to Dallas, Tx is Final!

Last Thursday I made the move to Dallas city in Texas. I'm currently living with a room mate in Garland, Tx, actually right down the woods from ID Software studios which is cool.

Author Will Zettler Date 05/23/2009 (5:53 pm) Comment 11 comments

Digital Lightstorm Web Site Finished!

Just a quick note... our site is finished. All that is left on the site is doing the shopping cart in the store, but I'm thinking I will go with the Pay Pal buttons on that one as the carts are way too hard to get working right...

Author Will Zettler Date 04/28/2009 (7:25 am) Comment 5 comments

Byond The Abyss - Small Update!

Well, I have great news for those who have been following the very slow progress of our game, Beyond the abyss. First off, before I do anything else, I would like to thank Associate Tom Spilman for his comments in http://www.garagegames.com/community/blogs/view/17065

Author Will Zettler Date 04/27/2009 (7:15 am) Comment 11 comments

Digital Lightstorm will now use Torque 3D for our games!

Just a small update. As of Thursday April 23, 2009 we are now a part of the Torque 3D group. We are planning to use Torque 3D to bring you our game Beyond The Abyss, so we have since somewhat stopped production on it and awaiting a stable release to build the game from (which could be a while but that's ok).

Author Will Zettler Date 04/24/2009 (9:13 pm) Comment 3 comments

Ambient Audio DVD Collection Coming plus more!

I am halting all my ambient sounds work. I will not be making any more ambient audio packs after this final Solar Arrival 2 goes live. Collectors DVD pack coming too... limit of 300 copies...

Author Will Zettler Date 04/18/2009 (8:17 pm) Comment 0 comments

Free Sound Pack plus new Audio Pack Release!

This new audio pack features something off the path of my other sound packs... as this one is both easy listening for relaxing times or for use in game design. I made this pack much more spacey then all the other packs but it does stick with the space feel. Very on-edge and very very dark just as I like it.

Author Will Zettler Date 04/14/2009 (12:15 am) Comment 6 comments

T3D and Graveyard Pack update!

Well tonight is the big night that Torque 3D hits the masses for preordering. To ring in this historic event, I have taken some time out to test our new Graveyard Pack in the Collada Test engine. Results are below.

Author Will Zettler Date 03/23/2009 (7:47 pm) Comment 5 comments

Beyond The Abyss Mini-Game Concept

This idea might actually move people to make these kinda games (Mini Games). My idea is this... what if we could make a game smaller and faster using only 3-4 levels for a game that are replayable?

Author Will Zettler Date 03/08/2009 (8:55 am) Comment 2 comments

Grave Yard Pack ** Update **

I have a major update on my Graveyard Pack as of March 2009. As of now, Alan James, owner of http://www.monsterpacks.com and maker of the amazing Corridors & Conduits SciFi Construction Kit is joining forces with us at Digital Lightstorm Studio for work on the Grave Yard pack.

Author Will Zettler Date 03/05/2009 (11:12 pm) Comment 15 comments

DLS Studio Web Site Now Up...

Just a quick blog to let everyone know that our web site is polished up and almost completely ready for launch. It's in Beta testing right now over at http://www.dlsstudio.com/ so don't expect everything to work right now. the Forums are in testing but I want to already replace

Author Will Zettler Date 02/24/2009 (9:14 pm) Comment 5 comments

Grave Yard Pack and Beyond Space Ambient Audio finished!

Hi ya everyone, I've been working on this pack on and off for about the last 3 or so months, and pushed even harder to finish it since it is a dedication to my dad who passed 11/22/08 from heart problems. I was working on this pack, actually, just beginning it when he passed so I felt it was my goal to pull through not only a tragic loss, but a gain as to have created something, even not as popular

Author Will Zettler Date 02/23/2009 (7:52 pm) Comment 2 comments

Mega Audio Collection now available on GG!!

The biggest ambient sounds collection thus far on Garage Games. 105 pieces of audio for your games. the collection spans 4 Ambient Sounds packs spanning the last 3 years. The collection features all sounds in OGG format and a complete sample per pack is available if you want to try before you buy kinda thing...

Author Will Zettler Date 02/17/2009 (8:25 pm) Comment 5 comments

The Pipe Warehouse Content Pack

Hello once again, The Pipe Warehouse will be opening it's doors here shortly. No exact release date has been planned but I'm shooting for a Feb 14th release, but not 100% so please don't hold me to it as things can change without notice. Over 3 solid months in the making in my spare time. It's almost perfect and since I'm a truck driver, it helps that I go to a warehouse almost daily.

Author Will Zettler Date 02/02/2009 (6:48 pm) Comment 11 comments

Roller Coaster Construction Kit 2009

Hurry hurry hurry, step right up for the grand opening of Digital Lightstorm Studios newest attraction yet... The Rollercoaster Construction Kit! Opening this summer, 2009 and will feature coaster track segments of all kinds to actually build your own coaster.

Author Will Zettler Date 01/25/2009 (7:22 am) Comment 2 comments

Welcome In the New Year 2009!

Hey all, Happy new Year 2009 everyone! Been a while since my last update... so here it is... we've come to the end of another year. A lot has happened since the beginning of 08... for sta...

Author Will Zettler Date 01/01/2009 (4:41 pm) Comment 4 comments

Ambient Sounds Pack 2, 3 and 4 are now here!

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Author Will Zettler Date 11/02/2008 (9:32 pm) Comment 3 comments

Beyond The Abyss Video Blog...

Hi ya one and all, http://www.youtube.com/user/dlstorminc is my new You Tube of my complete updates to my new game, Beyond The Abyss. Everything you wanted to know is here... from the de...

Author Will Zettler Date 10/19/2008 (7:40 pm) Comment 4 comments

Ambient Sounds Collections Coming Soon!

Hi ya All, Been a little longer then expected to blog but I have really big news coming down the pipe very soon here at Garag...

Author Will Zettler Date 09/05/2008 (8:42 am) Comment 0 comments