Planet's Edge Roadmap - Sprint 1

Code Chests, Inventory System, & Quests

Hello Edgians!

I hope you all had a happy holiday, and that you’re all safe and well as we move into what has already proven to be a challenging New Year. I’ll have a few exciting announcements soon about another project that has been long on the boil, but until then, let me give you an idea of what I expect I’ll be doing with PE:FF for the next couple of months.

As I demonstrated for my paying subscribers last week, code chests are in the game and functioning. I’ll still have some visual razmataz to add to them in the future, but the most complicated work for them is behind me, and for the time being my emphasis is getting to a fully-featured Proof of Concept as soon as is possible. It’s still too early in development for me to realistically project a date for when that will happen, but I’ll obviously be keeping you in the loop as I move along.

My objective for this first “sprint” between now and the end of February (if you wanna talk about this in traditional development terms), is to get the original “adventure game” mechanics of the original PE working before I move on to designing and implementing some of the more challenging systems that sit on top of all of that. By the end of this sprint, my objective is that the player will talk to Alpha One (an android that you meet in “First Contact”), get a quest, go out and find the items that Alpha requests, do something with them, go back to Alpha, and complete the quest that you are given. As I get each stage of each of these development steps completed, I’ll update the graphic above. Paying subscribers will have access to at least two (possibly three) new behind-the-scenes video updates during this sprint.

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