We will be putting the ZenCub3d project on-hold indefinitely.

Yes I realise that sounds like cooperate-speak for “we’re not going to be working on that project anymore”, but quite frankly that isn’t the case.

The technology behind ZenCub3d is evolving, and the development is still very much alive, but it has changed into something different enough to ZenCub3d that we don’t consider it the same project anymore. Many things considered, we decided that it’s about time that we go back into stealth mode again (or at least a semi one), and focus our full attention on this successor of ZenCub3d.

This new project retains many quirkiness that many of you have come to expect of ZenCub3d, and if you like ZenCub3d you won’t be disappointed. For all of you that have downloaded, tried, played with ZenCub3d, we thank you and hope that you enjoyed the experience; especially for those of you that have provided bug reports, feature suggestions and helped out in the community, or even made cool videos and spread them around, we’ve learnt alot from you, and to me that’s the greatest gift of all, and you have my deepest thanks.

We hope that all of you will stick around, we’ll still be active in our forum, and post on this blog from time to time. All the tutorials that I promised to write I’ll still work hard to fit them into my schedule. Feel free to come by to our forum for a chat.

The current beta release of ZenCub3d (Oct 2008) will still be available for download over the next 2 weeks, after that we’ll be taking down the link. More news and details will follow about the new project, so keep watching this space.

Also, thanks for all the people that have made donations to us, you guys ROCKS!! Obviously this is not how we want to make a living in the long run, but this really helps at the moment. If you wish to make a contribution, you can find the donation button under the “About” menu when you’ve just started the program, and also on the right side in the “Render GUI”, or you can just use this link. Let us know how much you think this software is worth to you.

On a side note, we’ve added Gravatar support for the comment section of this blog, so if you have a Gravatar associated with your email address, you’ll see it here.