Hello and welcome to VoidBox’s brand new blog!In this blog we’d like to give you a glance behind the curtains of our company named VoidBox and our games. VoidBox is a very small company, founded with very little money. We hope we can inspire other game enthusiasts to enter this dynamic and fascinating market; and stop them from being drawn back by their sparse resources, whether it be the poor financial background or the lack of expertise and social contacts. Achieving goals with scarce resources at hand is actually my doctoral topic. More about my thesis and the connection to VoidBox and game development will follow soon. Let’s now talk about our first game, called Epic Conflict.

Epic Conflict is a quick turn-based strategy game, set in a fantasy theme. Epic Conflict is played via Facebook:

So yes, Epic Conflict is just another Facebook game. Well, not precisely; you don’t build any cities, zoos or farms. Epic Conflict is an innovative and therefore financial risky project. What’s different than in other Facebook games? It’s a genuine multiplayer game, but not MMORPG. By multiplayer I mean your opponent must be at the same time online as you are, as each round lasts 3 minutes at most for each player. A game consists of 7 rounds. We really put a hell lot of effort to launch this game. Several coders quit their job, having underestimated the whole project and leaving us back with a messy code. Even potential founders gave up. But finally, we managed to tame this beast.

We know Epic Conflict is far from perfect. It’s our very first game and it is in early beta. Keeping that in mind, we still would love to hear your opinion. For example, we want to know what you like and dislike about the game. Any feature suggestions or user interface improvements are also welcomed.

You are always more than welcomed to leave comments and participate in the discussions. If there are any topics you would to like to read about here, or if you want to make a guest post, email us.

Cheers,

Amir