Roadmap
Follow the development progress
53 done 2 in progress 10 pending
Phase 7 - Version 1.0
Pending
- ○ The mystery of the Dead Zone Core
- ○ Steam achievements
- ○ New Capital Ships
- ○ More cards, enemies and Anomalies
- ○ A secret lineage, tied to Corruption
Phase 6 - Steam (Early Access)
In progress
- ○ Early Access launch
- ○ Free demo release (Act 1)
- ○ Controller and Steam Deck support
- ○ Desktop version, with offline saves and Steam Cloud
- ○ "Coming soon" page on Steam (wishlists)
- ◐ Store page: capsules, screenshots and texts in progress
Phase 5 - Expansion
Done
- ✓ 57 cards per lineage (over 170 in total)
- ✓ Act 3 — Dead Zone (the Herald) and 13 new enemies
- ✓ Cryogenic and Symbiote lineages: the Vytar core is chosen before each incursion
- ✓ Capital Ships: a community world boss (every pilot’s damage adds up)
- ✓ Act 2 — Frontier (the Vytar of Icarus) and Vytar Evolution
Phase 4 - Online
Done
- ✓ Site in English and Portuguese
- ✓ Game in English and Portuguese (switch in Settings)
- ✓ Daily Boss: an exclusive boss, the same kit for everyone, ranked by fewest turns
- ✓ Shared galactic map: one system a week, contained or swallowed
- ✓ Weekly Incursion with Anomalies (3 attempts, the best counts)
- ✓ Pilot progress synced across devices
- ✓ Daily Incursion leaderboard (1 attempt per day, re-simulated on the server)
- ✓ Pilot accounts by e-mail — one account for the site and every game
Phase 3 - Open launch
In progress
- ◐ Playtests with other pilots in progress
- ✓ Ranked modes unlock at level 5 (learn the game in normal incursions first)
- ✓ Final art: the whole Vexro fleet redrawn (46 ships) and the player ship
- ✓ The living ship: a name in the Hangar and voice lines during the incursion
- ✓ Composed soundtrack (menu, incursion and Corruption)
- ✓ New interface (HUD v2)
- ✓ Endgame: 20 levels, pilot Rank (F to S), Medals and the Hangar (colors and titles)
- ✓ Generative soundtrack (reacts to Corruption)
- ✓ Protocol Levels, Depths and Council Contracts
- ✓ Touch improvements (mobile)
- ✓ Publish at incursao.starfallalliance.com
Phase 2 - Starfall: Incursion (prototype and vertical slice)
Done
- ✓ New site: the Starfall universe hub
- ✓ Synthesized sounds and the Corruption drone
- ✓ Installable as an app and playable offline (PWA)
- ✓ Balance simulator with bots
- ✓ Daily Incursion (local)
- ✓ Pilot progression (XP, levels, unlocks, Datacore)
- ✓ 16 artifacts, 11 Anomalies, Nexus-7 and Nurseries
- ✓ Corruption with 4 stages (false intents, Dissolution...)
- ✓ 39 Solar lineage cards (Evolved and Corrupted)
- ✓ Sentinels and a two-phase boss (Colossus of Astrid)
- ✓ Procedural 15-floor map with routes
- ✓ Playable combat prototype
- ✓ Deterministic rules core (seed + replay)
- ✓ Incursion GDD: cards, enemies, Corruption, monetization
- ✓ [09/2026] New direction: a browser deckbuilder roguelite
Prototype: Starfall Alliance (mobile space RPG)
Archived
The first prototype (exploration + bullet hell for Android) grew too big for one person. It became the foundation of the universe: the Vytar, the Vexro, Corruption and procedural generation all came from it. Development continued with Starfall: Incursion.
- ○ Station, warp, scanning, mining
- ✓ Galactic map
- ✓ Enemy AI (7 types)
- ✓ Core gameplay, HUD, mobile controls, energy
- ✓ Procedural system generation (seed)
- ✓ Authentication, profile and leaderboard (API)
Phase 1 - Planning and Universe
Done
- ✓ The 🤯 moment I realized I had already written a few books worth of Lore 😱
- ✓ [2025] Lore Expansion: Planets, Technology, Terminology, Weapons
- ✓ [2025] Final Technical Decisions
- ✓ [2025] Refinement: Style, Mechanics, Purpose...
- ✓ [2024] Lore Expansion: Mysteries, Corruption
- ✓ [2024] Lore Expansion: Systems, Events, Cultures
- ✓ [2023] Early Prototypes
- ✓ [2023] Lore Expansion: Economy, Coexistence, Bestiary
- ✓ [2023] Lore Expansion: Universe, Races, etc.
- ✓ [2023] Architecture and GDD Definition
- ✓ [2022] Core Lore Definition
- ✓ [2022] Main Story Draft
- ✓ [2022] Ship Sketches
- ✓ [2022] Low-Fidelity Concept Test
- ✓ [01/06/2022] Start: Idea, Brainstorming
Legend
✓ Done ◐ In progress ○ Pending