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First Dev Planning Stream
🕑 Added 2025-11-28 12:42:49 +0000 UTCAs I mentioned earlier this month, I plan on doing regular streams here on Patreon for level 2+ Patreon backers, where we discuss and plan what features and bug fixes should be focused on next. With the localization update getting close to release (hoping to have it finished within the next 1-2 weeks). I'll be hosting the first of the dev planning streams on Sunday at 21:00 CET.
For future streams, I plan on moving around the time it's hosted, so people in different timezones also get a chance to join in. But beside that, this post will also serve as a way for people to come with suggestions and input, so they also can be taken into consideration even if you're not able to attend the stream.
So feel free to drop your suggestions and inputs in the comment, and make sure to like suggestions you agree with, so we can see what ideas people like =)
I'll also drop some of the features/bug-fixes I'm considering could be up next below, as well as some of the general development things we need to decide on.
Feature Sizes
Christmas and New Year's are coming up next month, and the localization update also need to be finished, so there will be limited development time for December, so for the first stream I'm thinking we'll look at both the development for December and January, so we'll be able to fit in more stuff.
One overall topic is how big features we want to look at, as it will obviously be possible to multiple smaller updates in the time it takes to make one larger.
Seeing as I'm just finishing a larger feature with the localization update, I would suggest looking at some smaller/quicker updates for December and January, and then saving any longer updates for sometime into 2026.
In-game Economic Display
Time: probably 1-2 hours
Been thinking of adding a display of the economic result in-game, probably somewhere below the new tab, to show the economic result of last month and overall for the year. I currently post this info on the Patreon, but think it would make sense to display it in-game, to make it more clear how the economic situation is looking for the game.
Nexus Lobby Public Queue
Time: 5-10 hours.
This has been requested for some time, and I had some original ideas for this that would be more extensive, but got an idea on how to add a quick solution for this last month. This would be a dropdown at the top of the room browser (and the Nexus dungeon menu), where you can see Nexus lobbies where people are looking for more players, you can then click the lobby to join. Likewise, when you're setting up a Nexus lobby, you can set it to public, displaying it in these menus and allowing people to join.
Song Tagging and Filtering
Time: 8-16 hours.
This is something I've talked about with the mod team. This would be a system where mods can create tags and assign them to songs, which players can then use to filters what type of songs should be included in quizzes. So an extension of the current song category system, but I could also see moving rebroadcast and dubs into this system as well down the line.
Development of this would be split up into two parts, first the backend system allowing mods to create and assign tags, and then later ones they've had a chance to tag shows, the addition of it to song filters.
General Feature Requests and Bugs
Time: ~
I got a long list (90 entries) of all the bug reports and feature requests posted over on the Discord (need to update it with the latest one). A lot of these are rather quick updates, so thinking we'll go through the list together, and pick out the ones we think are the most important.
Those are my current suggestions, make sure to let me know what you think of them below, and drop your own suggestions as well!
Hope to see you all at the livestream on Sunday, where we'll discuss all of them and figure out what development should be looked at next =)
Comments
Rasmus Egerod Leth
Don't think it's in the backlog currently, but should be a very easy and quick change. How long would you like the looting time to be? =)
Saleenseven
unless this is already in the pipeline, is somewhat of a fast add / fix an ability to make the looting time longer than it currently is?
Demo
I would really like to be able to use our custom quizzes as our list in other gamemodes like random or looting. It's the first thing that comes to mind that would add a lot to the game for me and my friends.
