I’ve posted an updated version of the Orrery Torquescript library. Thanks for all of the great feedback. This new version has a few features: Fully Object Oriented, so you can add multiple orreries or systems Renders correct positions of the moon Has a datetime object to show the current universal epoch (date/time) Allows for different [...]

An interview with me was just posted on the GarageGames website. Garage Games is the company that makes the excellent Torque Game Engine and Torque 3D that I’ve posted a number of resources for. They were extremely kind and donated free copies of there software for s to use in making games for kids. The [...]

Happy 40th anniversary of the Moon landing! In honor of this auspicious occasion, I’m releasing a new “Orrery” resource for the Torque programming language. This isn’t yet a full-fledged game, rather just a library of celestial mechanics. I wrote the instructionsfor integrating within Torque 3D (which is currently in a closed Beta) — this is [...]

OK, I got a little ambitious this weekend, and knocked out a ton of bug fixes for the MBO game.  Here’s Version 4 for download (sorry, only for PC – there were too many engine fixes that I lost track of, and can’t go back to rebuild for both platforms).  I promise that future games [...]

For the past year, I’ve been running a team of developers that have been building a game to teach kids about space.  Come check out the discussion, see code samples, or help out by volunteering! http://moonbaseone.blogspot.com/ People who looked at this item also looked at… Interview on GarageGames New MoonBaseOne game Source code to make [...]

Check out this new video with awesome voice work by Peter Wylie, and excellent editing by Jason Tugman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjgsrqFAHJk People who looked at this item also looked at… New MoonBaseOne game Interview on GarageGames Mining Robots control code About Jay Orrery Game: ver 2 Related items Interview on GarageGames Rafting Video New MoonBaseOne game Orrery [...]