Phoenix Game Development

The artwork and animations are now done. There are a few other minor things that I need to work on, but I am ready to move ahead with the next phase of the story elements. The initial story quest should be about 3-5 hours long, in total, not including side quests and additional story quests.

I am still working on fixing the bugs with the story system. There were some issues with the floating origin system integration, as well as setting the control objects and setting up the player correctly when they first spawn into the game. This is now working. The next goal is to add some new artwork, […]

The new features that I am adding to the project in order to support the story elements are complex, and are taking a little more time than I thought. I have made extensive improvements to these features, however, as well as several bug fixes. I now have the ability to land the player at any […]

The story elements are working well. It is now possible to spawn the player close to a planet with a specific set of characteristics. I am now working on the new features and mechanics that I will need to actually advance the different story elements.

Most of the story elements are working ok, but there are some minor issues. I made some minor improvements to the character creation system, and I am now in the process of improving and debugging the initial spawning code. I need to improve the pseudorandom generation algorithm to make it possible to predict, in advance […]

The next step is to add combined story, tutorial, and introduction to the game. This will also be a good test of the games mechanics, and a chance to develop whatever additional mechanics, features, and improvements, that I need for the story elements to work. So far, I am working on improving the random generation […]

Most of the core features that I need for the story elements are now working. I can create navigation objects within star systems and on planets, etc, that can guide the player to specific locations, and I can create objects at those locations, aligned properly with the terrain, when the player gets close enough. With […]

After some initial issues, I have started making good progress on the storytelling features within the project. It is now possible to determine, programmatically, which star systems will have planets in them, and what types of planets they are (Earth like, Ice, etc) as well as their radius, and position. This will be crucial for […]