Roadmap

OpenSkyscraper Roadmap

To Do:

The following TODO features need to be reordered by priority. And there are a lot of things missing.

• "Classic" (SimTower clone)
  • Implement SimTower features:
    • Rooms
      • Movie Cinemas
      • Chapel
    • Connections
      • Subway / railway
      • Resizable elevator shafts (right now adding an elevator hits all the floors)
      • Maximum length
      • Number of elevators per shaft; additional cost apiece.
    • People
    • AI / interactions
      • Reduced restaurant traffic on rainy days
      • Tenants will only use up to 3 flights of stairs to reach a destination
      • Tenants will only use up to 6 flights of escalator to reach a destination
    • Gameplay Mechanics
      • VIP / tower reviews
      • Star Ratings as population grows
      • Cost of building a new room
      • Profit from tenants in each room
      • Pause time
    • Tools
      • Bulldozer tool
        • Destroy room, leave tower's empty floor intact
        • If destroying a condo, pay the poor evicted tenant for the price of the condo.
      • Query tool
        • Show unique name of building
        • Show tenants
        • Show rent
        • Show overall happiness
      • Finger tool
        • Expand elevator shaft
        • Contract elevator shaft
        • Subtract cost of expansion/contraction of elevator shaft from funds
        • Set floors that elevators will not visit.
    • Main Menu
      • Save game
      • Load game
    • Return to main menu
  • User's manual for people unfamiliar with the original SimTower
  • Select an open-source license (GPL, BSD, MIT, etc.) for the code.
  • Release packaging
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux (.tar.gz, .deb, .rpm, & Arch Linux packages)
  • Load and save towers
    • Load from original SimTower files.
  • User Interface
    • Use CEGUI interface system
    • Migrate existing construction and time window to CEGUI
• "Deluxe"
  • Graphics:
    • Create a guideline document for graphic packs.
    • Select an open-source license for the artwork.
    • Create in-house graphics pack.
    • Support loading of custom graphic packs.
  • Open-Source sounds
    • Create a guideline document for sound packs.
    • Select an open-source license for the sounds.
    • Create in-house sound pack.
    • Support loading of custom sound packs.
  • Expanded tower building options.

Completed:

• "Classic" (SimTower clone)
  • Dynamic extraction and use of SimTower graphics, sounds, and other resources from retail EXE file.
  • Implement SimTower Features
    • Rooms
      • Lobby
      • Condo
      • Restaurants
      • Offices
      • Dining / banquet halls
      • Single hotel rooms
      • Double hotel rooms
      • Hotel room suites
      • Hotel maintenance
    • Connections
      • Stairs
      • Escalators
      • Elevators
      • Service elevators
      • Large/Express elevators
    • People
    • AI / interactions
      • Office workers arrive in morning
      • Office workers leave at night