The Roadmap

Good work! I want this game more and more!

 

Is the Roadmap updated or not?

 

This is the latest and the roadmap isn't going to be updated until Tiy work's on it and if Tiy update it you will see that this thread will be too

 

Totally awesome! Thanks for being very open in the development process.

 

According to my math, the last update to the roadmap puts development at ~84% complete. This is encouraging!

 

Nice

 

I posted a potential update that you could use for the front page, involving descriptions next to the pictures that say if the features Beta ready, Almost, or the fraction of how many are ready over the total of said section. Additionally the spoilers that make it easier to navigate. If there's anything else that could be....added, I'd love to help out?

 

Not to stomp on your hopes and dreams, but I don't see how you could've gotten ~84%. If you average each individual tally then you get almost 70%. If you instead average the average of each section you get almost 65%. Unless you counted the "space" section, which I don't see how you can include that in good faith.

 

IDEA:

Maybe they should simply add: "Last updated" somewhere on the roadmap. Then you would never need to ask if it has been updated or not

 

Unless some updates were inadvertently missed, we have had two in the last 27 days at least (both of which were in the last 10 days).

I do suspect that the roadmap was not intended as something that would get regular (say weekly) updates, but more of a monthly update at best if not a "as we remember to do it" bit. Either the roadmap itself is difficult to update, or they are having trouble quantifying how much work they have done thus far in each area since April 3rd.

 

I will be putting it like this

20% -----> 40% Updated : 30/4/2013

 

Looking through the Roadmap myself, they've still got quite a way to go!

Lots of fiddly stuff is designed, but not yet implemented: Tech, Parties and multiplayer mechanics and protection, Vehicles, making biomes matter in more ways, NPC interaction/behavior, Quests...

Plus, the new race, fossils, and pets don't seem to be in the roadmap list yet either!

Looking forward to how the team implements all their hopes and dreams!

 

The game is far from finished, but it has a lot of stuff at around 80%. So my guess is that Beta might be released around the end of May/June(at least that is what I'm hoping for) and the full game might be released at the end of 2013.

 

I think April was a good month for the progress of Starbound, so hopefully when the roadmap is updated we'll see big bumps in percentages.

 

If the final game were released near the end of the year, that would be fine with me. I've seen too many games released with fatal bugs included. While that may make some people happy, "we'll fix it later" is a foolish mentality for any company releasing a product.

 

Mind you, I never said my math couldn't be wrong. All I did was take all the sections and average them as a whole. For all I know, I could have been off a digit. And I'm sure the results would be at least slightly different averaging out the individual sections, then using those to estimate progress. Point is, the game is finished enough that we may see the beta soon.

And no, no Space section. Though, that does make me want cake.

 

Let me set this straight guys this roadmap is like 3 weeks old and never been updated until now, so i am guessing the game is way updated, and again this will be updated when Tiy updated the roadmap )

 

if you can show the progress every time ! it would be so cool~(*o*)~

 

Although the roadmap itself lags behind in development, it's still really neat that you all have shown us your current progress on the game!

 

Or they could have made minimal progress and the few updates they've given thus far reflect the progress they've made in the 28 days since the roadmap was given to us. I don't think thats the case but its certainly a possibility.