November 03, 2008 Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton!

05:37am by Cheechoo (Random)

Awards of the week is coming tomorrow, as well as the results of the last poll, as well as another announcement. But I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate the youngest Formula 1 champion in history. Personally, I’m a HondaF1 guy, but I’ve been rooting for Hamilton ever since his first season last year. Senna’s successor? Perhaps. Go Hamilton!

October 28, 2008 Weekly Awards!

01:38am by Cheechoo (Site)

This week’s awards!

Most Active: Josh Ferguson with 634 activity points. Josh is one of our loyal users who refused to succumb to ViperLand, I was rooting for him from the get-go. Unfortunately, recently he bought the Z06, which is fine, but I was pulling for him to keep the GT3. =) Either way, congrats, Josh.

Biggest Loser: Another myspace user, $clyde$ is bringing up the rear, but racking up activity and money at the same time! Keep it real, clyde, you’ll start smoking other people soon enough!

Car of the Week: Jeremiah Knavenshue, with our first Camaro winner. He’s one of the first Camaro users to embrace the new hoods. Great job, Jeremiah! Almost looks like Knight Rider.

All winners receive $5000 vDollars as a reward for winning the Weekly Awards

Failboat News: Corvette parts are starting to trickle in. Authorities are recovering the cargo containers one by one from the bottom of the sea. After drying the parts off, we’re making them available in our shops. Happy vDreaming!

October 24, 2008 Say Goodbye to Viper-Land! A New Beast Enters...

08:36am by Cheechoo (Site)

Many have been waiting for the end of Viper-Land in the vDream community. The Viper has been the best bang-for-your-buck for over a month now, and the only way to take a Viper out, is to either join them, or buy a $600,000 Saleen, and spend another $100,000+ on upgrades. Not anymore, my friends. The Viper has a competitor. Thank god for the American sports car, the Corvette Z06 is here!!! The Z06 is sure to give that monstrous Viper a run for its money. Who will come out on top? I think only Cheechoo knows… Save up those vDollars, the Z06 is here.

For you people already planning on buying it, though, there has been a slight hitch in the plan… All exterior parts for the Z06 were aboard the U.S.S. Failboat, and as you all know already, the Failboat capsizes and loses all of its cargo. There is another shipment of exterior parts for the Z06, but it won’t arrive until next week. That’s okay though, you guys weren’t into all of that flashy stuff anyway. You just want to go fast! To the flashier vDreamers, be patient. To the rest of the Z06 buyers, enjoy!

October 23, 2008 vDream Goes Political! (by way of Collectibles!)

09:27am by Cheechoo (Site)

To you new vDreamers, every now and then we will release collectible parts that will only be available for a little while. Get ‘em while they’re hot! Most importantly, if you sport them on your car and decide to trade in your car, be sure to uninstall them before you trade it in, or else you will lose it!!!

This time, we’ve gone political, and are sporting our very own Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin bobbleheads! Choose your favorite candidate, and when we close the availability on November 4th, we’ll tell you who had the most buys. Let’s see if the vDream demographic will truthfully show who wins the election!

If you’re from another country, and I know many of you are, don’t be shy, this is a global purchase/vote! I don’t want to speak for the rest of the vDream team, but the 2nd pic represents my view.

October 22, 2008 vDream Loyalty Program - mo' money!

08:46am by Cheechoo (Site)

Hello vDreamers! We would like to introduce to you the “vDream Loyalty Program,” which is essentially another way to reward our most active users! You will receive money every day for logging in, as well as for how many friends you have on vDream! Here are the specifics:

Daily log-ins: You will receive $10 vDollars for logging in, and an extra $10 for each consecutive day you log in. If you log-in every day for 10 consecutive days, you will receive $100 vDollars that day. But be wary, if you miss a day, you’ll start over at $10 vDollars again!

Awesome friends: You will receive $20 vDollars per friend you have on vDream. So if you have 5 friends on your vDream friends list, you will receive $100 vDollars every day you log in.

IMPORTANT!!! vDream servers think they are on GMT -01:00. They think they are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Therefore, a new day for our servers means 5:00 PM Pacific Standard Time!!! This goes for you people maxing out on challenges, and for the vDream Loyalty Program. You can check out a pic of the Loyalty Program Message, and of the vDream servers: (NOT a photoshop! It’s totally real!)

October 20, 2008 Weekly Awards!

10:06pm by Cheechoo (Site)

Announcing this week’s winners:

Most Active User: Melanie Swiderik, with a whopping 584 activity points for the week. Congrats, Melanie!

Biggest Loser: Kristian Stokes, with 202 losses. This 5000 will definitely help you turn things around!

Car of the week: -=grot=-, with a sweet looking RX7, and our first Myspace user to win Car of the Week!!!

Congratulations to all of this week’s winners!

October 17, 2008 vDream Police Department open for business, and a New Part Type!

10:00am by Cheechoo (Site)

The vDream Police Force has been established. Cheaters have been caught, and have been removed from the leaderboard. If you have been taken off the leaderboard, contact us through the vDream Support link at the bottom of the app.

If you’ve been caught cheating, you have two options:

1. Start from scratch. Record goes to 0-0-0, your car gets impounded, and you start out with the initial $21,000 vDollars. It’s basically a reset button.

2. You can opt to keep your car, your record, your money, and you can keep cheating to your heart’s desire, but will never appear on the leaderboard.

We do realize that it’s quite harsh, and it pains us to have to bring down the hammer so hard. But after a long discussion, restarting the account is the only way to keep things fair to other users, and that’s the most important thing to us. We’re sorry for the cruel and unusual punishment, but our hands are tied. We must keep the game fair.

On a lighter note, we have released camshafts for some cars. So check out the Parts Shop and look for engine internals, and you might be able to speed up your car a bit!

Oh, and I’m sure you noticed. There’s a new poll out. Go make some easy bucks.

Happy vDreaming!

October 16, 2008 Free Navi Systems for All! And a new Member of the mid-level!

10:14am by Cheechoo (Site)

In addition to the great news from our friends at Facebook, we have another big announcement today. Here it goes…

- vDream Notifications. It is a little odd making a notification for the Notifications feature… but you get the idea. This new notification system serves as our satellite navigation system on vDream. All vDream related announcements will be sent here, including links to the blog.

- Polls. In our snazzy new Notifications area, you’ll see an area for polls. We love you guys. We want to hear from you. We want to know what makes your heart beat about vDream… and sink (hopefully a lot more of the first than the latter). Plus, our poll reward system will now be AUTOMATED! Yes, that means Lijen and Cheechoo won’t have to manually gift you guys when you answer polls.

In addition to the new feature, we’ve also released the Mazda RX-7, a mid-level turbo competitor with super-lightweightedness (is that a word?).

I know it’s been a long wait, guys, and we still promised some more cars, but they’re coming! Next week will have more cars in the mix (hopefully the Z06 to combat viperland). In the meantime, have fun. Oh yeah, and be ready to answer a poll tomorrow using the INTEGRATED NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.

Well, what are you doing here on the blog?! Go check it out!

October 15, 2008 vDream First Round FB Fund Recipient!!

09:10pm by Lijen (Site)

The FB Fund announced its first round recipients today, and guess who was on the list!

The FB Fund is a competition where over 600 Facebook applications were submitted for review and the top 25 were selected and rewarded $25K grants. In the next round they will take the top 5 apps from those 25 and reward them over $200K in funding! Read more about the FB Fund here.

A special thanks to all of our dedicated users that have continued to support us over these first few months. vDream wouldn’t be what it is without your continued support and feedback, and with the help of Facebook and the FB Fund, the skys the limit!

Check out our “Elevator Pitch” video that we submitted for the fund… featuring yours truly =)