Roadmap

Where we go. Together.

Welcome to the Game Creator roadmap. We hope to keep this page up to date with the latest news about the development direction of our product.

Each year is divided into 3 quarters. Each quarter is a milestone and has a collection of states. In each state we include epics/tasks that must be done.

• Past quarters have no states.

• Current quarter tasks can be Active or Delayed.

• Future quarters have no states

At the end of each quarter we'll include a small postmortem where we'll share insights of what went right and what went wrong during the development cycle. This will be very useful for both us and you.

Game Creator is a community driven product. Our primary goal is to provide you with stable and reliable releases. As such, any indications of target release dates and features listed are subject to change.

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2021 - Milestones

Q2

• Game Creator 2.0 - public pre-alpha release

Q1

• Stability improvements on all modules

2020 - Milestones

Q3

• Traversal module

Q2

• Traversal module

Q1

• Melee module

• Traversal module

2019 - Milestones

Q3

• Shooter module

• Melee module

Q2

• Shooter module

Postmortem

What went right

• Found a way to procedurally create aiming animations which look realistic and allow users to create almost any kind of weapon from a single pose

What went wrong

• The Shooter module took way too long to complete. I was on holiday for 20 days, so there was a time frame I couldn't get to work on it, but still, the pre-production phase took quite a bit

Q1

• Behavior module

• Update Quickstart tutorials

• Shooter module

• Melee module

Postmortem

What went right

• The Behavior module went much better than expected

• The Behavior module was done within the time frame

What went wrong

• Unrealistic number of modules were set for the first quarter

• Some Game Creator updates could have been handled better

2018 - Milestones

Q1

• Game Creator - New Variable System

• Game Creator - Module Manager 2.0

• Dialogue module

• Game Creator Store 2.0

• Quest module

Postmortem

What went right

• We managed to complete the Dialogue system without critical issues

• The new Module Manager and the dependency system

• Use Firebase as our backend

• The Module Manager automatic build/deploy.

• Splitting Game Creator into data-logic components

What went wrong

• Too much time spent in re-coding existing things (Module Manager, Variables, ...)

• Releases weren't properly tested and we shipped way too much patch releases

• Low release of video tutorials

• Still no alpha release channel

Q2

Active

• Quest module

• Shooter module

• Stats/Attributes module

• Game Creator - Enhance Save/Load system

• Game Creator - Gestures with Avatar Masks

• Game Creator - Limb IK targets

Postmortem

What went right

• Deploying the Quests modules before releasing to the Asset Store

• Enhancing the Save/Load system to almost automatically save play-throughs

• Many brainstorm sessions to architect the Stats module

What went wrong

• Vacations split the development of the Stats module

• Game Creator update took too much time, though brought many new features

• The Stats module wasn't 100% architected when the development started

Q3

• Stats module

• Game Creator Hub

• Shooter module

• Integration with Cinemachine

• Integration with Bolt

• Integration with Playmaker

Postmortem

What went right

• Completed Game Creator Hub with admin dashboard

• Improved Game Creator stability a lot

• Kept documentation up to date

• Stats module design and examples work great

What went wrong

• Poor communication with Beta phase ending

• Marketing is still a thing that needs to be worked out

• Did not hit integration modules deadline

2017 - Milestones

2017

• Game Creator - Release

• Game Creator Store 1.0

• Game Creator Homepage

• Inventory module

• Dialogue module

Postmortem

What went right

• Releasing Game Creator within the expected deadline.

• Effectively communicate what Game Creator is.

• Releasing the Inventory module within the expected deadline.

• Using GitLab CI/CD to automatically deploy new Store modules.

• Using Jekyll as the bare bone structure for our website.

• Using short video tutorials.

What went wrong

• Actions & Conditions architecture. Using Scriptable Objects and attaching them to the scene asset resulted in too many edge cases when creating prefabs or duplicating.

• The Module Manager 1.0 static architecture

• The Variable system was too constrained and did only accept primitive types.

• We couldn't release the Dialogue module within the expected deadline.