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This post contains the “roadmap” of future features to implement for upcoming versions, as of the release of 0.1 Alpha.

Completed Milestones

0.2 – Gameplay & Code

• Major code tidy-up, commenting, namespaces, et cetera.
• New, cleaner group purchase/deployment system
• Gameplay balancing of ship/weapon types and the example scenarios.
• Mission system and tutorials / instant action mode.
• New ship types: probe and drone.
• Homing missiles; weapon group system.
• Click-selection of ship groups.
• Quitting to menu, with confirmation dialogue.
• Minor AI improvements (tweaks & stances affect whether move orders are ignored)

Planned Milestones

0.3 – Visuals & Content

• Better-looking ship models – more variety.
• Better-looking particle effects.
• Better collision detection (use of hirerarchical bounding volumes for ships, stations, etc)
• New ship types and weapon types; redesign of maps; gameplay balancing.
• Sphere with ripple effect (shader) for ship shields on projectile impact.
• Rotating planets and bodies.
• A smaller version of the interface font.

0.4 – AI (Intermediate)

• Some further code tidy-up and restructuring, particularly for the entity/body systems
• Tweaks and improvements of the ship and group AI.
  • Type-specific collision avoidance – e.g. minor projectiles only dodged in Evasive/Passive stances.
  • Use above system also for friendly fire avoidance.
  • AI can select weapon groups.
  • Tweaks and improvements to target selection.

• Tweaks and improvements of the strategic AI
  • Better action evaluation for purchasing – e.g. last-ditch purchasing, saving up
  • Add small random elements into pre-set AI
  • Improve, tweak and verify the abstract state.
  • Many minor improvements

0.5 Onwards (TBC)

• 3D sound and background music
• Dynamic group creation and arbitrary move orders via the mouse
• More maps and scenarios; dynamic map layout & label positioning (instead of using config values)
• Map editor mode
• Automatic map generator
• Story mode (full-featured mission system; communications/conversation system; docking; saving)
• Predictive and adaptive strategic AI, achieved by finishing, testing and tweaking the Logic Engine
• Networked multiplayer mode