New & Improved Development Roadmap
Hey Islanders, a couple months ago we released our initial roadmap via the form of the Dinosaur Batch System, which we received a significant amount of feedback for which we've digested and used to help shape the new and improved roadmap that we're now excited to share! We've opted to go with a public trello board for ease of use and accessibility. Therein, you'll find cards that outline our intentions for each update push we have planned. Which include but are not limited to playable characters and their features, AI, new mechanics, new locations, story elements etc. Below I'll outline some features of the new roadmap and how to utilize them:
Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/G5tsb4XI/public-roadmap
We'll use the Utahraptor AI card for our example.
- Above the name of each card you'll see a selection of colour-coded flairs, which you can expand by left clicking on. These flairs are a quick way to indicate the progress of a specific item without having to click on the card itself and upon doing so will also expand the flairs underneath every card.
- Left click on the image or text of a card to open it, from there you can see a description of the feature which describes our design intentions. Scrolling down you can see that each card comes with a checklist indicating where that feature is in our pipeline, allowing everyone to follow along with development as things progress. Now you'll know where and what we're working on, hopefully serving as a useful indicator as to when an update may be nearing release. Do note that some of the items in the checklist involve multiple elements. Due to that, it will only be checked off if all of those elements are complete.
I'd also like to mention that our Phase 2 posts will continue, besides our social media channels it's the perfect place to showcase gifs, images and other tidbits that otherwise wouldn't fit on our roadmap. Thank you all for your patience and we look forward to your feedback!
Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/G5tsb4XI/public-roadmap
We'll use the Utahraptor AI card for our example.
- Above the name of each card you'll see a selection of colour-coded flairs, which you can expand by left clicking on. These flairs are a quick way to indicate the progress of a specific item without having to click on the card itself and upon doing so will also expand the flairs underneath every card.
- Left click on the image or text of a card to open it, from there you can see a description of the feature which describes our design intentions. Scrolling down you can see that each card comes with a checklist indicating where that feature is in our pipeline, allowing everyone to follow along with development as things progress. Now you'll know where and what we're working on, hopefully serving as a useful indicator as to when an update may be nearing release. Do note that some of the items in the checklist involve multiple elements. Due to that, it will only be checked off if all of those elements are complete.
I'd also like to mention that our Phase 2 posts will continue, besides our social media channels it's the perfect place to showcase gifs, images and other tidbits that otherwise wouldn't fit on our roadmap. Thank you all for your patience and we look forward to your feedback!