v1 Roadmap

Roadmap is subject to change and not 100% complete

v0.30.0

• Performance improvements

  • CI benchmarks
  • Pointer perf improvements
  • Texture GC
  • 2x Graphics perf improvement
  • Hash grid spatial partition for physics
  • Low memory device profile

• Graphics

  • Refactor Particles
  • GPU Particles

• Developer Experience

  • Scene specific resources & Global resources
  • On demand loading/unloading Incremental resource loading #960

• Debug Improvements

  • Firefox version of debug plugin
  • Development excalibur build

• Refactors

  • Actions api consistency
  • Remove/refactor awkward statics used for setting flags example: ex.Physics

v0.31.0

• Headless support for servers

• Sound

  • Sound Manger for global mix & control
  • Spatial audio

• Performance improvements

  • CI benchmarks
  • Low memory device profile

• A11y

  • Improve input mapping API
  • Input mapping UI implementation
  • Key input remapping
  • ARIA announcer
  • UI Manager

• Physics

  • Continuous collision improvements
  • Arcade Friction
  • Constraints
  • Slopes

• Graphics

  • Lighting system implementation Add a light type of entity for lighting effects #267
  • SDF based text as a plugin

• Developer Experience

  • Game state management strategy documented/implemented
  • Game start and restart developer experience
    • Game restart support

• Debug Improvements

  • HMR plugin
  • Profiler in debug plugin

• Refactors

  • Move Gif support into into a plugin
  • Timer System Refactor
  • Resource/ImageSource/Sound to option bag

v1.0.0-RC1

v1.0.0

Post v1.0.0

• WebGPU renderer (waiting on more browser support)

• Physics

  • Ropes/Chains

• TypeScript update

  • strict: true Update Excalibur to use TypeScript strict:true #1213

• TileMaps

  • Hexagonal maps
  • Tiled - Infinite maps (chunk based)

Maybes

• WASM based optimizations
  • SIMD Transform/Motion Updates
  • Boadphase/Narrowphase Collision Processing
• Plugins
  • Tilesetter
  • Pyxel Edit TileMaps
  • MIDI Audio
  • MOD Tracker Audio files
  • XState plugin?
• Offscreen/off-main thread rendering investigation
  • Offscreen canvas/web-worker
• Multiple cameras Investigate ways of doing split-screen cameras #338
• Player Controller Component
• HTML Game Element support Add support for HTML text outside of the game canvas #2063