Roadmap

Find out whether swapping characters to trigger reactions is fun before writing any networking.

• Pure, deterministic combat simulation with replay
• Team of 2, swap with cooldowns that do not reset
• 3 elements, 6 reactions, a boss with its own aura and a window
• Movement, range, telegraphed attacks, dodge
• Layered character with visible equipment (LPC sprites, temporary)
• Recolor by shader
• Windows, macOS and Android builds

Four people in the same room with no desync. Then login and a small town.

• Authoritative server: the sim runs on the server, clients send commands
• Boss room for up to 4 players
• Login with email and password, character and team creation
• Small town with chat and proximity replication
• 1 mob room, chest keys, personal loot
• Load test: 100 bots in town over the network

Build the whole game before the final art. Everything working, nothing pretty yet.

• 5 starting classes: Warrior, Archer, Mage, Acolyte, Rogue
• Job tree: 5 first jobs and 10 second jobs, skills from level 1 to 10
• 7 elements and the 11 reactions in the design
• First dungeon: 5 rooms with obstacles, mini-boss, boss and chest
• More dungeons: Frozen Cave and Howling Grove, each with its own elemental theme
• Four weekly legends for 2 to 4 players and the Wednesday and Sunday Raid
• Levels only from XP tomes, attribute points, ascension gates up to 500
• Per-piece equipment visible on the character, rarities, affixes, starter kit per class
• Blacksmith: upgrade +0 to +15 with risk, Protection Stone, glow at +10
• Farm: teleport from town, map with garden, orchard, livestock, lake and woods
• Personal gathering with respawn; farm animals (egg, milk, honey) and wild animals to hunt, with drops
• Reusable cook NPC per town, recipes in data files
• 5 dishes and 5 drinks with 30-minute bonuses (1 dish and 1 drink at a time)
• Region structure: each town with its own farm and dungeons (for now, only the Vale)
• Trade, storage, market
• Cosmetics-only Esporário, with a pity counter and no 50/50
• Six banners: character, armor, weapons, wings, mounts and familiars, each with its own counter
• Guilds, guild storage and guild chat
• Mobile version with touch controls

Everything an outside test needs that does not depend on art: a live server, coming back after a drop, moderation, data to balance with.

• Test server on the internet, deployed with one command
• Room networking 17 to 27 times lighter
• Reconnection: if you drop, you have 60 seconds to come back to the same team
• Moderation: chat filter, reports, mute and ban, GM commands
• Closed beta invites and an outdated-version notice
• Anonymous telemetry to measure retention, reactions and key economy
• Pre-formed groups and matchmaking by level range
• Weekly dungeon modifiers
• Translation: Portuguese and English (Russian and Chinese will come as new columns)

Someone who has never played gets in, understands, and finds everything on their own screen, on PC and phone.

• One panel at a time; Esc and the Android back button close it instead of disconnecting
• New title screen and a "Your duo" wizard instead of four creation screens
• Bottom bar with Sheet, Skills, Bag, Map, Agenda, Guild, Chat and Menu
• Character panels (attributes, equipment, job) and Skills with a configurable bar
• Bag with tabs for items, equipment, chests and food
• Searchable manual and short tips in the first session, no forced tutorial
• Town map, weekly agenda, swap teams without leaving the game, options and credits
• Buttons and text sized for fingers, sharp screen on phones and an optional joystick
• Stay logged in on the device, export your data and delete your account from the game