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I have made various minor improvements and changes to the demo, and it should be ready to release on schedule. I still want to do some more testing before I release it, I have about a week or two to do this. Even though this is still a very early alpha build, I think there […]

I have decided to limit the demo to 60 minutes of gameplay (I may reduce this to 45 minutes). Previously, the demo was at least 3 hours long (And before that, it was nearly 5 hours!) which is way too much for a demo. A demo should be just that, a demo, not a full […]

I am working on putting the finishing touches to the demo for Spiritus Astrum, I am planning to launch this in time for the nextfest in September (starting on the 2nd). So far, the demo is basically done, I just need to do a lot of testing and debugging with it. The Closed Beta is […]

The demo for Spiritus Astrum is now available in limited, closed, Beta! I have a small number of Steam Beta keys to give out. Contact me at: contact[AT]phoenixgamedevelopment[dot]com If you would like a key. The showcase post on the Unity forums is here: Unity Showcase

I have finished most of the work that was still needed for the demo, including adding in the credits menu, and adding a specific “demo mode” which disables some features, like multiplayer. I have also prepared a demo build on steam, and configured and uploaded it. This may not be the final releasable demo build, […]

The testing for the player server went very well, there were no issues found with the player server itself. I did uncover some additional issues with the build, but these were minor, and were easily fixed. The good news is that the playerserver is working properly. I may release a demo version of spiritus astrum […]

I have added a large number of sound effects to the project. There are still more that could be added, but I think that for the initial release I have enough. I also need to optimise the audio code later. The next goal is to test the player server. Most of the testing that I […]

I am now working on adding more sound effects, etc, to the game. This is an area that I have not spent a lot of time on before now, since it is not essential to the functioning of the game, but even for an early release I do need some sound effects. I have already […]

I have spent several days working on the documentation for Spiritus Astrum. The first draft of this is now done. This documentation is currently mostly in text form, but I have made some improvements to the in-game documentation too. I have also made some improvements and optimisations to the server code, and to the UI’s, […]

I have spent a substantial amount of time working on the main UI for the game. It was quite “busy”, with a lot of complex buttons, etc. I have grouped several buttons into submenus, and added some larger buttons with more text to make it easier to see what the button does. This is a […]