What do we want in 0.7?

[pathunstrom]

0.6 is coming to a close, which means we need to start discussing our next release. Since there's a lot more stakeholders this time around, I'm making an explicit issue here to discuss this. This discussion will become the basis for the 0.7 project board.

If you're suggesting a topic, please put it in a separate message, and everyone who cares can vote up or vote down with a reaction.

Discussion can go between suggestions. I'll try to keep this OP up to date with all of the suggestions.

[pathunstrom]

Suggestion: Really focus on documentation

[pathunstrom]

Suggestion: Rebuild renderer to handle new rendering contexts and make layering #276 a thing.

(Edit by @astronouth7303: This will enable future work for text #146 and canvas sprites)

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Sound

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Resource revamp #147

(This is kind of a prerequisite for the sound and render context work.)

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Regions and Physics feature #121

This would allow you to describe the physical shape of your sprite (probably just square and circle to start with), and do collisions based on it.

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Behavior Trees and Finite State Machines.

(I'm including this because it's been discussed as a feature, but I'm personally of the opinion we've got bigger fish to fry.)

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Subsprites and Camera-attached sprites.

Roughly, making a sprite that's a child of a sprite or a camera meaningful.

This pretty much depends on #128 / #229 .

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Stacking scene rendering with alpha backgrounds. #143

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Gamepad support

[AstraLuma]

Suggestion: Actions feature

This is an abstraction layer to translate raw input events into semantically meaningful actions. Also, handles different input modes.

[nbraud]

Regions and Physics feature

@astronouth7303 What do you mean by Regions there?
In any case, I would be pretty keen on having a stab at a declarative-ish thing for specifying dynamics.

[AstraLuma]

Ok, so here's what I'm seeing based on this:

• Docs
• Resource/asset rewrite
• Sound
• A physics systems (all @nbraud's doing)

[pathunstrom]

How long do you think a prototype of your imagining for resources/assets be?

Since Sound is going to need to lean on it somehow.

[AstraLuma]

I've already done the initial prototypes. Need to round it out into a data model integrated with the ppb system.

[AstraLuma]

Closing in favor of https://github.com/orgs/ppb/projects/7