Voxatron Development Map

Current version: alpha 0.3.5b

This page is intended to give a top-level view of what's going on with Voxatron development. For more up-to-date happenings, try #voxatron on twitter or my Blog. For extremely real-time information, drop by Lexaloffle HQ and look over my shoulder to see what's on the screen.

Milestones

Vertical Slices

Alpha v0.1 Minimal world designer, modelling tools, Arena and Story prototypes. Adventure

Alpha v0.2 Explorable worlds, object permanence, extra monsters, animation and monster design tools. Fantasy Console

Alpha v0.3 Custom players and weapons, inventories, mulitplayer, micro-scripting, audio tools, cartridges. Voxatron Arena

Beta v0.4 Arena shooter w/ sidekicks, portals and multiple characters. Lua scripting and PICO-8 support. Voxatron Story

v1.0 Exploratory action/adventure game set in the Voxatron universe.

Next Milestone: v0.4 (Beta)

At 0.4, Voxatron will be feature complete (except for Voxatron Story) and change to beta status.

The following is an overview of items left to complete 0.4, roughly in the order they will become available.

:: Usability Better documentation, tutorials and more visually structured editor GUI. :: Lua Scripting Create cartridges from scratch using only Lua scripting, or use Lua for finer control over existing engine features. :: PICO-8 Support Load PICO-8 cartridges into the resource tree and run them from within a Voxatron world. :: Display Support Support for real holographic (Looking Glass), and volumetric (Voxon VX1) displays. :: Improved BBS Optimised web player, social features, embedding, cart recommendation and featuring. :: Console Interface New minimal front menu, bbs cart labels, new cartridge explorer based on PICO-8 SPLORE. :: Big Worlds Larger max room size, vertically scrolling rooms, save procedurally generated room and object data. :: New Demo Carts Cartridges showing the new engine features, and larger range of possible types of carts. :: Voxatron Arena (Cartridge) Will mark the release of v0.4. New monsters, weapons, pickups, portals, music.

v1.0 Voxatron Story

Voxatron Story is a multi-character adventure set in the Voxatron universe, and will be included with v1.0.

Most 0.4.* updates will be bug fixes and minor improvements to support Story development.

Completed

Features added during Alpha, available in the most recent builds.