Daggerfall Mod:DFRemake/Roadmap

The following is a basic development roadmap, without any time estimates, of how we see the project being done. Keep in mind that this is currently a rough guide only and subject to change.

v0.1

Goal: Playable exploration of a dungeon spanning multiple blocks, with collision, water, sound, and scripted objects such as elevators. No equipment, inventory, chargen, enemies, etc.

Assets:

• Loading of a Daggerfall dungeon with 3d objects, sprites (flats), lights, and water data.
• Collision functioning on dynamically selected world objects.
• World block handling system (loading and dropping dungeon blocks as necessary).
• Dynamic lighting system.
• Rudimentary scripting system handling dynamic objects (elevators).
• Water physics as with Daggerfall.
• Sounds for footsteps and swimming; dynamic dungeon sounds, etc; possibly EAX implemented.
• Doors.
• Wide variety of display options, remappable controls, etc.
• Climbing (not skill controlled).

v0.2

Goal: Playable exploration of a dungeon as before with character generation, statistics and skills, inventory, equipment, item piles, and damage from falling and drowning.

Assets:

• Character generation with all races, appearances, allotted items, etc.
• Item system, including leveled random item generation, gold, equipment, and tracking pregenerated items out of active world range.
• Statistics and skills affecting gameplay, as with speed and running dictating movement speed, jumping controlling jump height and distance, etc.
• Health and stamina dynamic loss and recovery with resting.

v0.3

Goal: Playable exploration and combat in a dungeon, as before with enemies, weapons, stealth, working combat skills, and skill increases with leveling.

Assets:

• "Enemy-class" dynamic sprites loading and displaying in the world.
• AI working for multiple enemies at once, with path finding, LOD, vision range, etc.
• Stealth based on movement speed, stealth skill and lighting.
• All weapon classes, including bows, functioning in the game world.
• Backstabs, critical strikes, blocking, dodging, and all other combat-oriented skills working.
• All skills increase with use; leveling up with allotting statistics implemented.

v0.4

Goal: Playable dungeon as before, with spellmaking, enchanted items, enemy casting and magical effects, item enchanting, and game saving/loading.

Assets:

• Most to all spell effects planned working and able to be used in the spellmaker, including soul trapping, mark and recall, etc.
• Enchanting system with all enchantment effects and support for soul gems.
• Use of magic items and casting affected by spell skills.
• Enemy AI takes into account magic and uses it.
• Enemies use magic system effects such as spider's paralysis.
• Saving and loading of games, ideally in a modular system that can be supported by later versions.

v0.5

Goal: Complete exploration of the game world with fast travel, overland and dungeons, without cities, taverns, temples or covens.

Assets:

• Dynamic world system with support for climate-based decals, textures and height and dungeon entrances.
• Day/night and year cycles affecting the sky, fog, ambience, and weather.
• Fast travel map allowing travel to any location in the game world instead of sites.
• Climate-based overland enemy generation.
• Memory and save system handling the entire world.

v0.6

Goal: As before with all sites and 'flat' NPCs with dialogue and working shops, banks, and trainers, spellmakers and enchanters; no guild system, exterior 'walking NPCs', or justice system.

Assets:

• Loading of exterior world cells such as cities with 3d objects and flats.
• Fast movement between interiors of houses and the exterior game world.
• Fast travel to specific sites.
• Basic dialogue including asking about places and rumors, affected by persuasion skills and reputations.
• Buying and selling of items through store shelves and merchants, calculating shop quality.
• Full working bank system, including letters of credit.

v0.7

Goal: Addition of exterior NPCs, taverns, guards and a justice system and basic dungeon quests.

Assets:

• Affiliations with guilds, with advancement and quests given; access must now be earned to guild assets.
• Dungeons are now hidden by default.
• Scripting system to handle basic quests revealing dungeon locations with item and monster goals.
• Quest objects supported by the inventory.
• Exterior NPCs with very basic AI, guards, and PC crime level.
• City gates close at night, loitering is a crime.
• Inn rooms can be rented.

v0.8

Goal: Addition of general quests from commonfolk and nobility, a complete scripting system with all types of quests from guilds supported, guild affiliations affecting NPC reactions, and complete NPC memory.

Assets:

• Support for asking after work in dialogue.
• Quests from general and noble types.
• Solid scripting system capable of very complex quests.
• Area-based reactions and individual memory for NPC memory make NPC reactions as in the final game.
• Rumor system.
• Logbook and notebook working as in the final game.

v0.9

Goal: "Feature Complete" working game.

Assets:

• Lycanthropy and vampirism with cinematics, gameplay effects, quests, etc.
• Daedra summoning with requisite quests and artifacts.
• All artifacts implemented into the game.
• Main quest complete to finish.

v1.0

Goal: Complete, stable, modifiable game, ideally with prepared translated versions.

Assets:

• A lot of testing and fixing.