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Official Documentation for Spiritus Astrum is here: Spiritus Astrum Documentation [phoenixgamedevelopment.com] This is a PDF document of the documentation for Spiritus Astrum. This is vs 1.0 of the docs, this will be updated in the future.

I have decide to re-enable comments on PGD on a trial basis. I was getting a lot of spam, which is why I disabled them. I am using a moderation queue with fairly strict anti-spam settings, so I am confident that I will be able to allow interaction with posts while still keeping spam to […]

I recently discovered that it is actually possible to sponsor certain unicode characters, and also, that the “heart” of my logo is in fact a unicode character. It is U+2727, the Four-Pointed Star: I have sponsored this character on the official Unicode site HERE. I also get an official tweet from the Unicode channel: Phoenix […]

The garagegames community have launched a new forum HERE. This forums seems to have replaced the previous one, which had been having problems with spam for some time. The new forum is actively moderated and spam free, and seems to have taken over the brunt of the Torque related discussion from the previous forum.    

Although it was harder than I thought, Oculus  claimed that they were experiencing “Massive” load on their servers, and it was overwhelming their payment processors. That’s a good sign for VR! It did mean that by the time I managed to complete my preorder, my ship date had slipped from March to April. Eventually, however, […]

According to THIS link, Oculus Rift Preorders will begin at 8 AM on January 6th, or 4 PM GMT! That’s less than 48 hours away! Countdown to Oculus Preorder:  

I generally adopt a simple sequential naming convention for my Projects, P-165, P-166, etc. My current virtual world Project (Which I don’t have a name for yet) is P-152. However, I think that given the sheer complexity of the Spherical Terrain Implementation which I am currently working on, this element should have it’s own project […]

I am currently constructing a server for the purposes of hosting games and programming projects. This is very much a test of a wider concept, and a learning opportunity for me. I am aiming the server at mainly T3D or other amateur game developers and software programmers. Having a dedicated server available with which to […]

The next step in this project is to enable the player to control machines and vehicles that they have made using the world creator. I want this to be as emergent as possible, so I wanted to have the controls themselves by placeable with the world editor, and not just use a predefined gui or […]

I have been informed that my first Android App, “PowerWizard” has been voted number 47 out of the top 50 tools for an Electrical Engineer’s Toolbox by pannam.com. The link is here, and this is what they said about PowerWizard: Power Wizard, from Phoenix Computers, is a different sort of app for electrical engineers, as […]