Roadmap

Where Prometheus stands and what has to happen before launch. Dates are hopes, not promises.

Done: the engine foundations

A browser editor driving a simulation the server owns, with several tabs editing one scene live
Frieze, which bakes 3D models into pixel-art sprite sheets that catch the scene's light
Delve, the first mode for walking around the 2.5D world
Gameplay groundwork: input, UI, scripting, AI and navigation, physics queries, dialogue
Device budgets, region streaming and a static export for phones

Moving the editor into a desktop app built on Electron
Rebuilding the platform around plugins, which means a full rewrite
Designing the new editor in Figma before building it: round one approved on October 20, round two (Play mode, 3D dev tools, Frieze as a plugin, first run, phone and Steam previews) on October 21, round three drawn and waiting for review
Building from the approved designs, started October 21: the desktop app, the plugin host, Jobs as the first plugin, and the first slice of the new shell
Making the tools work for a team, not just me: sign-in, invites and roles on Forge, and the engine recording who made each edit (in code since October 22, switched on once I finish the setup steps)
Making scene saves safe before plugins can be turned off: anything the engine can't load is kept, shown read-only in the editor, and saved back untouched (done October 27)
Licences for DD-ReForged and the editor plugins, with a free version that never locks; the engine will be free once my game is built with it (working end to end since October 29)
Finishing the tools before any new game content, decided October 31: a git toolkit where every write can be undone (in DD-ReForged since October 31), a hosted Forge, and the first testers
Thinking through how the rest of the game gets built on the engine, starting with the living world: terrain that only exists once a player or a monster travels into it

Now looking like mid to late 2027 (first hoped for late 2026 or early 2027)
My teenagers, who are studying engineering, helping to design and build the game world
Friends writing the music and ambience while they play the slice