📍 Untold Engine Roadmap – End of 2025

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As maintainer of the Untold Engine, I wanted to share the goals I’ll be focusing on for the rest of 2025. These represent the areas I feel are most important to make the engine stable, usable, and welcoming for developers.

This doesn’t limit what contributors can work on — in fact, your ideas and features are what make the project exciting. Think of this as a baseline plan that I’ll take responsibility for, while leaving plenty of room for others to push the engine forward in new directions.

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🎯 High-Level Priorities

By the end of 2025, Untold Engine should be:

1. Stable – engine doesn’t crash unexpectedly, has safe defaults, and runs reliably.
2. Documented – clear guides from “first run” to “making a simple game,” including how to use the Editor.
3. Performant enough – able to render a complex scene at 60 FPS on mid-range Apple hardware.
4. Tested – core systems and editor workflows have baseline unit tests.
5. Accessible – supports macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and visionOS builds.

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📌 Roadmap by Quarter

Oct-Nov 2025 – Foundation & Stability

Goal: Build a rock-solid baseline for contributors and early adopters.

• Crash resistance

  • Add default assets (mesh, texture, shader) as fallback.
  • Harden error handling paths.

• Unit tests (Core)

  • Animation System.
  • Input System.
  • Loading System.
  • Asset Serialization/Deserialization.

• Documentation Pass 1

  • Installation & setup.
  • Running the engine & first scene.
  • Adding entities/components.
  • Basic Editor guide (opening projects, loading scenes, assigning meshes).

• Performance baseline

  • Profile engine with a benchmark scene.
  • Document current frame time, draw calls, and bottlenecks.

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Nov-Dec 2025 – Cross-Platform & Developer Experience

Goal: Expand reach, improve developer workflows, and hit performance targets.

• Multi-device Apple support

  • Ensure builds run on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS (basic support).

• Documentation Pass 2

  • End-to-end guide: From first run → making a simple game.
  • Draft API reference.
  • Editor workflows:
    • Using the Inspector.
    • Adding/removing components.
    • Saving/loading scenes.
    • Assigning assets through the Asset Browser.

• Unit tests (Editor)

  • Adding/removing components updates the Inspector.
  • Saving/loading scenes.

• Performance targets

  • Optimize rendering pipeline with:
    • Occlusion Culling
  • Validate that complex scenes run smoothly at 60 FPS on mid-range Apple hardware.

• Housekeeping

  • Code cleanups.
  • Naming consistency.
  • CI integration for unit tests (stretch).

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🚀 Stretch Goals (If Ahead of Schedule)

• Automated CI pipelines for unit tests (GitHub Actions).
• Demo scenes to showcase rendering & editor workflows.
• Early tutorials / blog posts for community adoption.

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