Phoenix Game Development

I have made some improvements to the GUI system in the game so that users can find documents in the world that contain data, and this data can then be categorised and stored in the GUI. This is a common feature in many games, and it was not too difficult to add to Spiritus Astrum’s […]

I have been working on improving the story for my project. This will be one of my main goals for the future. I will be adding more quests and objectives, as well as more art objects, etc, to the project to facilitate this. I have already come up with a large number of different quest […]

The introduction scene is functionally done. It is relatively simple, but I think that it looks quite good. I still need to add the actually story elements (Text, etc) but the coding part of it is done. I will also need to replace some of the art at some point, namely, for the players main […]

I have added the changes to the procedural content creator, and run some tests. This also required changes to the story generator, to make sure that the system was not trying to, for example, spawn NPC’s in a city on a planet that had no cities. The next goal is to create a simple introduction […]

I have made some improvements to the subtitles to improve legibility, as well as other minor GUI improvements. I have also added more placement options for certain types of NPC’s in the world. The next major goal is to improve the procedural generation system so that I can create planets with different types of city, […]

I have started uploading videos of SpiritusAstrum gameplay to youtube, the first is embedded below. I intend to upload more videos in the future, as I continue to work on the project.

I have completed another test run of the game, and run into only minor issues, which have been fixed. The game is becoming a lot more stable with each run through. The next goal is to finish testing the early part of the game, and then add more content, etc.