Roadmap

Milestones

1.0

0.6

• #16 Move player physics to server

Post 1.0

• User Account System
• Tutorial
• Level Loading
• Level Editor
• Ladders/Contests
• Ship Upgrades

v2.0

• Fighting

v3.0

• Autopilot
• NPCs
• Stations
• Mining
• Trading
• Crafting
• NPC Scripting
• Merchang Mode

Ideas for Improvements

• more than one player on one computer
• Health Bar
  • Health Bar loss on colissions
• mouse control over ship
• hide ship during explosion
• rockets
• Player colors
• in station mode
• collision trigger
• add zoom in zoom out on mouse button
• add alternate player controllers (mouse based)
• show other players directions when they are out of screen
• show next checkpoints direction in Hud
• console interpreter
  • respawn
  • warp
• Server: etags, last-modified-since support

World

• npc village
• black holes
• giant asteroid
• mothership
• space station
• milky way
• sternschnuppen
• star signs
• Mars in front, Earth in back
• Moon moves around the world
• nebula
• warp portals

The Challenges

• the triangle
• the reactangle
• fly around the world
• level 1
• pass the asteroid field as fast as possible (best 3 out of 5)

Sound

• Ambient space music
• Radio sounds

World Builder Mode

• race mode

Improvements

Common

~ sanitize message handling

Client

• add key buffering like in game_loop library and make it frame-based for more precise control over user input

Server

~ make server side file logger work again

• make sure the StaticFileHandler does not expose files out of its baseFolder scope

Racing Mode

• create different scene controllers for different playing modes?
• move control over position to server