2020-05-02

The future for macOS VR looks dark

With deep disappointment and a modicum of anguish we received notification that Steam has decided to discontinue support for SteamVR on the Mac. Before I go […]
2020-02-24

Alpha 18 Release

Yupp, we skipped Alpha 17. That’s because reasons! In any event the new release fixes the last remaining network bugs (slow blinking for some players), which […]
2019-11-03

Alpha 14 released

The network migration (yeah, ‘notwork migration’, as we call it) is proving to be more difficult than we expected. So, in order to not have anything […]
2019-09-21

Alpha 13 (Oct 2019)

We are progressing the network update, and it is as bad as we thought. Changing network infrastructure is ugly in the best of cases, and this […]
2019-08-23

Alpha 12

We did it! We moved the entire game to the new infrastructure, and made it run. There are some inconsistencies, some rooms have different lighting, and […]
2019-08-02

“But think of all the fun we’ll have…”

We develop SpellShokked! using an industry-standard development system (“IDE”) that pulls together artwork (models, textures, materials, animations), audio (music, effects, voice), design (color palettes, fonts, narrative), […]
2019-07-26

This one goes to 11!

Another month, another alpha. With apologies to “Spinal Tap”, this one goes to 11! This release is entirely about bug-fixing. as it turns out, supporting multible […]
2019-06-16

Alpha 10

Ok, so we were a bit optimistic about how long we’d take to bring multiple avatars to networking. And yes, there’s still the aberrant optical glitch […]
2019-06-08

… and slowly, but surely …

And so, more than two months ago, we boasted that we’d quickly bring multiple avatars to the network. Boy have we been wrong. Well, eight weeks […]