Phoenix Game Development

Almost all of the work on the third campaign is done. I spent most of the week on Mission 9, this was one of the most complex missions, because it uses Wave Function Collapse to create a dynamic maze for the player to fly through. This turned out to be a lot easier than I […]

I have finished the 8th mission out of the 10 missions in the third campaign. This one was relatively easy, but there were still some new mechanics that I had to add involving gravity vectors, jetpack velocity, and walking on 3D objects. Walking on 3D objects is an issue I have struggled with before. I […]

I have now finished 7 of the 10 or so missions that will be in the third campaign in Spiritus Astrum. I am still working with simple programmer art, and I have not added all of the story triggers, etc, etc, but I am making good progress. I have made improvements to the NPC’s and […]

I completed two more missions in the campaign. There will be about 10 missions in total, I have completed 5 of them, and I am working on the 6th. So far they are working out very well. I am just working on the prototyping and core mechanics for now, but I am confident that the […]

I have completed another full mission in the new campaign. This one took a long time to do, since it involved travelling to a planet and generating a navmesh, and then spawning NPC’s and issuing commands. The game has code to do this, but it didn’t cover this use case, so I had to make […]

I have begun working on the implementation of the third main story for Spiritus Astrum. The first two missions of the new story are now basically done. The artwork is not done yet, I am just using placeholder art, but the triggers and code for the first two missions are done. I have added multiple […]