Roadmap

Road to First Playable

A living roadmap for the world we are building.

Genesis

Complete

100% complete

  • Repository
  • Unreal project
  • VQCore
  • Backend foundation
  • PostgreSQL
  • Entity Framework migrations
  • Launcher foundation

First Light

Complete

100% complete

  • Launcher authentication
  • Registration and login
  • Developer Island
  • Third-person player
  • Interaction framework
  • First Light Monument
  • Travel Spire
  • Central UI Manager
  • Persistent worlds
  • Persistent characters
  • Character Select
  • Live character API integration
  • Gameplay session creation
  • Launcher-to-world login flow

Character Foundation

Complete

100% complete

  • World selection during creation
  • Race selection
  • Class selection
  • Character naming
  • Appearance customization foundation
  • Live body proportion controls
  • Head bone scaling
  • Runtime skin material tinting
  • Character creation API flow
  • 12 Account-wide character slots
  • Character preview model
  • Save and restore world position
  • Heartbeat service
  • Logout handling
  • Stale session cleanup
  • Reconnect support

Awakening

Complete

100% complete

  • Combat
  • Inventory
  • Equipment
  • Loot
  • Currency
  • NPCs
  • Use-based character skills
  • Gathering, Harvesting, Node mechanics
  • Death and Respawn
  • Resurrection Sickness
  • Trading and Restrictions
  • Communication (Whisper, Tell, Reply, Say, World Chat)
  • Emotes
  • Friends List
  • Merchants
  • Item Rarity System
  • Attunement
  • Corpses

Horizons

Active

8% complete

  • First cities
  • Expanded wilderness
  • First Dungeon
  • Travel spire network
  • Class Vendors
  • Group Loot
  • Banking
  • Regional exploration
  • Guilds
  • Guild Banking
  • Class-specific skills
  • Quest System
  • Item Database Expansion
  • Dungeon Mechanics
  • Groups and Shared EXP
  • NPC Reactions
  • Aggro System
  • Skill Trees
  • Housing
  • Broker/Auction House
  • Fence/Black Market (sell to opposite side)

Echoes

Planned

0% complete

  • Starting Zones
  • Echo Journal
  • Lore Journal
  • Discovery system
  • Collections
  • Persistent world memories
  • Player history statistics
  • Raid system
  • Public chat
  • World Chat
  • Shout
  • Chat stuff
  • Mounts