Hi everyone. Big announcement for this Tuesday’s update, in lieu of a video. Feature development in the game is coming along nicely, and we’re getting a lot of feedback from you about where you’d like to see the game go in the future.
To better communicate with you guys, we’ve opened up a Trello board. The board is a finer grain look at what we’re working on now, and what we’re working on next. The best part is, you can vote on the features you want to see most, and have an influence on our development.
Here’s a quick FAQ that explains how all this will work. Please use this discourse topic to discuss the board.
Where’s the Board?
What is the Roadmap Board for?
The roadmap board is a high level list of upcoming features, and how we will prioritize their development. The exciting part is, you get to vote on which features you would like to see developed first.
We’ll use this information on a regular basis for our planning updates, where possible, to help guide development in a way that best suits the community.
What do the cards represent?
Each card represents a varying amount of work towards adding a mid to high level feature in the game.
The order of the cards represents the order in which we will work on the features in that column, from top to bottom.
Card color represents the work status of each feature.
- Green = Someone is actively working on the feature now
- Blue = Someone will work on this as soon as we have someone available to work on it!
- Yellow = We will implement this feature, we just don’t know when yet. We have no immediate plans to work on it, and will complete all green and blue items before considering work on this feature.
- Orange = We know we will implement this feature eventually, but definitely not in the next few Alpha releases.
How do I vote?
1. Sign up for a Trello account at Trello.com
2. Head over to the Stonehearth board
3. Click a card you want to vote for, then click the “Vote” button
So you’ll work on the top voted features?
The voting will be an important factor in deciding what to work on next, but not the only factor. When choosing what to work on next, we consider many factors, like how long it will take to develop vs. impact on the game. In general, voting may affect the order that we work on items within a category (green, blue, etc), but will probably not move a feature from one category to another, like moving something from orange to green.