Current roadmap for Adventures in Greyfoot

Week 1

• start a Godot 4 project file
• organize existing concept art
• into a pbm.monster page
• draft some UI element concepts

Week 2

• Add weapon slots
• Code HP
• Give an enemy, any enemy, some sprites
• Add verticality to test map
• Vertical look constrained
• Jumping and crouching

Week 3 (ends 9/21/24)

• Add the third weapon slot
• Add a non-point (i.e. swung) melee weapon
• Implement projectile weapons
• Implement collision avoidance
• replace placeholder enemy
• start building Yelli Crass
• enemy sleep and wake states

Sept 2024:

• Place a wall
• Code a weapon
• Place an entity to kill with said weapon
• Write an intro to this “level”
• Transition into and out of Text-Based Adventure scenes.
• Write shader and establish restrictions to allow for custom player character colors.
• implement true pathfinding
• use button

Oct 2024:

• begin controller support (XBox con fully supported)
• ^ controller support for the text-based adventure mode is a considerably lower priority and may not make it in before the beta stage.
• fix texture mapping (further addressed using global triplanar mapping)
• Particle system
• Save and load system
• Design the optional level "Greyfoot Prison"

Nov 2024:

• PC species selection (sets head and tail shape)
• PC body selection (masc/fem/androgyne)
• PC hairstyle
• PC colors
• custom playername
• class selection
• Tutorial dungeon (spawn room, traveler's pamphlet, two enemies, checkpoint, seven more enemies, exit)

2024

• Playable alpha
• Give the weapon a viewmodel and sounds
• Give the hostile entity at least one full rotation of sprites

Future:

• Platea Heldere customizability
• ^ deer
• ^ dragon
• ^ lagomorph
• ^ canid
• ^ reptile
• ^ bird
• ^ bear
• ^ bat
• ^ mouse
• ^ mink
• Queen Marsika playable
• Briannan the Bearded playable
• Messalina A Waters playable

Maybe:

• Climbing
• MEER Incursion (expansion? DLC?)
• NG+
• Quadrupedal character creator
• Android port (no iPad sorry)
• Bug Hunt program
• Crossover guest characters
• Dual wielding
• Custom characters appear as NPCs in future runs