Roadmap

Roadmap

Where GUO is heading. This is a direction, not a schedule: items move as they are measured and proven. Decisions that bind are in the ADRs (docs/architecture/); open work is in GitHub Issues.

Now: the first public preview (v0.1.0)

• Downloads for Windows, Steam Deck and Android from one release workflow.
• The Known Issues list kept honest.
• The wiki, the project site, and a welcome in Discussions.

Next

Performance, the one parity gap. Frame times on every platform are measured with one probe, scene by scene. Draw-call cuts land only at exact parity, and ADR-0007 (the sorted world in batched meshes) is decided with numbers. A fair ClassicUO-vs-GUO table, with the same view on the same machine, is published before any comparison is claimed.

Mobile.

• The command bar redesign: one bar with rows that slide in.
• Touch-sized Modern versions of the gumps that are hard to use on a phone (ADR-0024).
• Controller polish on handhelds.

Web.

• Choosing your UO folder in the browser.
• A smaller download and a faster start.
• A hosted test client, once the engine side allows it (ADR-0008).

Editor and Store.

• Shard content negotiation: a connecting client learns which packs the server requires; protocol and user consent remain future work.
• Theme, sound and preset packs applied, not just installed.
• A hosted Store catalogue on GitHub Pages.
• The RunUO shard backend for the editor.

Later

• New content, authored the safe way: multis, interiors and art in a staged data set, never the install (Building Multis, Author UO Data).
• Steam Deck Game Mode and more handhelds.
• Upstream ClassicUO changes merged as they land (Parity and Drift).

How to help

Pick an issue labelled good first issue or help wanted, or bring an idea to the Ideas category in Discussions. See Contributing.