Signs of Things to Come
// February 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // News, Updates
The Long Awaited Roadmap Is Finally Here
Since nearly the beginning of the Blue Mars beta, developers and users alike have been asking for a roadmap to better gauge the underlying direction and development process of Blue Mars. Community director Glenn Sanders answered the much requested information today in a post on the official Blue Mars blog. In it, he highlights many features that have been asked for quite vocally, such as improved avatar movement, enhanced camera movement and controls, clickable hyperlinks in the Chat box, new and improved avatar meshes, Avatar attachments and animation rigs, and the ability to import custom avatar shapes and skins, as well as many other features which can be perused through here.
While the latest post lightly refers to this list as a roadmap, it isn’t exactly a proper roadmap. The main elephant in the room is the exclusion of any kind of tentative dates as to when these features might make it to the end users, as well as the exclusion of any kind of priorities list. Depending on where one stands in the Blue Mars universe one could assumed that a few key features will come before the others, though there is nothing whatsoever to give even a hint (users could be more interested in avatar customization as well as camera controls and chat functions, whereas developers could be more keen on the new mesh features and SDK installer).
This is not to say that this list isn’t welcome (it’s very welcome) just that it could use some clarifying points and more detailed information as to how this roadmap will be implemented. Also, this is hardly the last word on this matter, and it’s totally possible for there to be another update on the roadmap that gives more concrete information in the near future.
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