v0.1.0 – Future

Unordered ideas and long-term goals.

Graphics
- Planned HUD display
- Planned Animated textures
- Planned Advanced materials
Gameplay
- Planned Inventory system
- Planned Collectible objects
  - Part of inventory
- Planned Key-locked switches
  - Part of inventory
- Planned Enemies
Game Designer (Owl Map)
- Planned Menu edition
- Planned Node editing

v0.0.3 – Expected 2026-07-01

Sound
- Planned Sound effects
- Planned Music
- Planned Sound management
  - Play, stop, loop, volume, etc.
- Planned Sound spatialization
  - 3D positional audio
- Planned Moving sound
Graphics
- Planned Animated sprites
- Planned Basic 3D rendering
  - Planned Simple lighting
Objects
- Done Mesh object support
- Done Mesh loading (OBJ, glTF, GLB, FBX)
  - Via tinygltf, tinyobjloader, ufbx
- Planned Basic mesh manipulation
  - Scale, rotate, translate
- Planned Mesh collision
- Planned Mesh materials
  - Basic colors and textures
Miscellaneous
- Planned Different scene types
  - Games and menus
- Planned Configurable keymap
Game Designer (Owl Nest)
- Done Project system
  - Create, open, save, and close projects (owl_project.yml)
  - Dynamic asset directory management for project folders
  - Project name displayed in window title
- Done Project settings panel
  - Edit project name and first scene (dropdown of available scenes)
- Done Scene import into project
- Planned Export game for runner
  - Standalone game runner package
- Planned Asset packing
  - With unpack support in runner
- Planned View of level links
- Planned Entity management shortcuts
  - Add/remove with delete confirmation
- Planned Separate editor/game display
  - Entities rendered differently

Developers
- Done Public engine headers 3rd-party independent
- Done Remove fmt public dependency
- Done Reduce needed public binaries
  - More static linking of 3rd-party libs
Graphics
- Done Backgrounds / skyboxes
- Done Migrate shaders to Slang
Miscellaneous
- Done Pause / unpause game
- Done Frame-by-frame stepping
  - When paused
- Done General settings management
Gameplay
- Done Jump between scenes
Game Designer (Owl Map)
- Done Global game settings
- Done Log frame
- Done In-game visibility
- Done In-editor visibility

First basic release: minimal viable engine with the ability to run simple games defined in scenes.