Luanti Direction Document

1. Long-term Roadmap

The long-term roadmaps, aims, and guiding philosophies are set out using the following documents:

2. Medium-term Roadmap

These are the current medium-term goals for Luanti development, in no particular order.

These goals were created from the top points in a roadmap brainstorm. This is reviewed approximately every two years.

Pull requests that address one of these goals will be labeled as "Roadmap". PRs that are not on the roadmap will be closed unless they receive a concept approval within a month. Issues can be used for preapproval. Bug fixes are exempt from this, and are always accepted and prioritized. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more info.

2.1 SSCSM

Server-Sent Client-side Modding has been a long requested feature, as it allows game developers to highly expand the tools for their creations. Implementing SSCSM also means to feature more dehardcoding, furthermore allowing us to improve the overall performances of the engine.

Instead of focusing on short-term solutions that will inevitably lead to more technical debt to deal with, SSCSM paves the way for a cleaner architecture designed to stay.

2.2 Input Handling

Luanti keys are currently limited to a small subset, not allowing game developers to map the majority of the keys a device usually offers. This limits the possibilities of game creators, forcing them to either implement a workaround or, worse, forget about it.

Using a gamepad also represents a known issue in Luanti, as some devices might not work at all or result in an uncomfortable user experience.

2.3 UI Improvements

A formspec replacement is needed to make GUIs better and easier to create. This replacement could also be a replacement for HUDs, allowing for a unified API.

A new mainmenu is needed to improve user experience. First impressions matter, and the current main menu doesn't do a very good job at selling Luanti or explaining what it is.

The UI code is undergoing rapid changes, so it is especially important to make an issue for any large changes before spending lots of time.

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