(v0.8.0-beta.120+) Roadmap

[Arufonsu]

🚀 Intersect Engine - Current Roadmap 🛠️

This roadmap represents tasks that @WeylonSantana and @Arufonsu are voluntarily collaborating on. Our focus is on improving the engine with a commitment to enhancing performance, refactoring, fixing bugs, and implementing valuable new features for the community.

Ticked items ([x]) in this roadmap indicate tasks that have been completed and successfully implemented into the engine.
Unticked items ([ ]) represent ongoing or planned tasks that are either in progress or awaiting development.

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🐞 Bug Fixes & Maintenance

• 1. Verified bugs
• 2. Fix player status timers
• 3. Projectiles refactoring and fixes
• 4. Fix NSE for InstanceType strings
• 5. Gwen control Base - "InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified (during iteration).

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🌟 Features

• 1. Parallel events
• 2. Highlight selected NPC with spawn point in map editor
• 3. Ability to play sounds in animation editor
• 4. Unequip item by slot
• 5. Homing and direct projectiles
• 6. Optional target window
• 7. Configurable range for item drop quantities
• 8. Redesign main menu: minimalist style
• 9. Optional right-click dropdown menu for entities. (View Info, Attack, Follow, Friend Invite, Trade, etc.)
• 10. Additional hotbar row for F1-F10 keys. (Toggle visibility button within legacy hotbar + new key settings).
• 11. New dialogue event-command: show multiple options - (A list we can fill with options -> in game scroll control window.)
• 12. Simplified escape menu
• 13. Ability to drag and drop items out from inventory.
• 14. Dynamic cursor handler with enum states: Normal, Hover, Drag, Npc Attack, Player Attack, Resource, Event Interact.

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✨ Enhancements

• 1. Display item quantities in hotbar
• 2. Bind description window to hovered control
• 3. Press enter to select character
• 4. Drop multiple stacks of stackable items
• 5. Input window shared between menu and game
• 6. Extended server statistics on startup
• 7. Player, target, and status window revamp

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🛠️ QoL Refactoring and Clean-up

• 1. Strings refactoring:
  • 1.1 Intersect Client
  • 1.2 Intersect Server Core
  • 1.3 Intersect Editor
• 2. Remove unused/implicit imports:
  • 2.1 Intersect Core
  • 2.2 Intersect Client
  • 2.3 Intersect Client Framework
  • 2.4 Intersect Editor
  • 2.5 Intersect Network
  • 2.6 Intersect Server Core
• 3. Fix formatting and variable naming conventions (i.e: get rid of mVarNames):
  • 3.1 Intersect Core
  • 3.2 Intersect Client
  • 3.3 Core and Entities
  • 3.4 Intersect Client Framework
  • 3.5 Intersect Editor
  • 3.6 Intersect Network
  • 3.7 Intersect Server Core
• 4. Convert to file-scoped namespaces:
  • 4.1 Intersect Core
  • 4.2 Intersect Client
  • 4.3 Intersect Client Framework
  • 4.4 Intersect Editor
  • 4.5 Intersect Network
  • 4.6 Intersect Server Core
• 5. Restructuring server configuration
• 6. Entities abstraction: Get rid of massive amounts of this is Player, this is Npc, etc.
• 7. Smoother NPC movement across multiple random tiles instead of a single boring tile per tick. (WIP)

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Note: This roadmap is a living document and subject to change as development progresses. Only @WeylonSantana and @Arufonsu are authorized to edit this list as they are the ones voluntarily collaborating with it. If you wish to collaborate along with us, please reach out for coordination and approval before making any edits.