Roadmap - boxgaming/gx GitHub Wiki

Here's a summary of the things we're planning to add to the system. At this point this is just a centralized location for notes about outstanding features. It has not yet been organized into a projected release schedule.

Backgrounds

• Add support for vertical scrolling
• Add support for background wrapping (maybe already there?)

Physics Engine

• Externalize simple physics engine to separate module
• Make physics engine "pluggable"

Entities

• Animation
  • Make animation set to play a sequence of animations
  • Fire animation complete event when non-looping animation has reached the last frame.
• Add ability to load and save entity definitions to a file

Map Editor

• Tilesets
  • Add ability to export and import tilesets from an external file
    • This should preserve all tile animations
• Add ability to import maps created in Tiled Map Editor (TMX Format)
  • Initially target the following map types:
    • Orthagonal
    • Isometric (Staggered-Only)

Isometric map support

• Change tile sizing to use vertical height instead of actual tile image height in determining the size and placement of tiles.
  • This should simplify a lot of the math and logic.
  • It will also make it more easily compatible with other editors.

Effects

• Fade In, Out
  • Fade to black or white
  • Fade to specific opacity (0-255)
  • Specify speed of fade in FPS
  • Fade entire scene
  • Fade specific entity
  • Fade background
    • All or a specific one