Development:Roadmap

Development

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This article is a work in progress, and is intended to become a centralized list of what we want to see for the 0.5.0 release, how it can be accomplished, and who is planning to work on it.

General roadmap discussion should occur in the proper thread. The wiki talk page may be used for discussion and refinement of specific points, and conversations pertaining to the roadmap article itself.

0.5.0 Task List

• Stats rebalance
  • Announcement and discussion in the forum
• Fine-tuning SPEC
  • Forum threads
    SPEC drive changes (thread started by pincushionman)
    spec system
• Keyboard remap
  • Keyboard Bindings (thread started by Silverain)
• Space dust
• Bump mapping (req. small engine rewrite?)
• Ethereal walker's ship/weapons pack?
• Re-working cargo organization?
• Phasing out all XMESH files
• Phasing out Launcher.exe (nearly done)

See also

• Roadmap thread in the forum

Aspects for consideration

• Rudimentary Multiplayer
• New logo/Icons
• Improved planet textures (Higher quality/Fractal Enhanced?)
• Ship spawning
• Flesh out storyline / Devise more story-based missions
• Rework HUD
• Strangelet's new LODs

Future additions

• High Dynamic Range Lighting
• Shaders