v1.0 Early Access release

[erlend-sh]

Our upcoming v0.0.4 release should be our last patch release. The following release will be v0.1.0 🆙

(This might hopefully also get us into the mindset of putting out patch-releases more regularly, for easier playtesting via the launcher.)

From there begins the road towards a stable v1, which is specced out in our GDD.

With that spec completed, the game is deemed ready for widespread playtesting. We will publish the game as Early Access, free-of-charge, on Steam and Itch. Also on Ultimate, but we’ll likely be on there ahead of v1 anyhow.

Timeline

With our current pace, I’m thinking this is very doable before year-end. What do ya’ll think?

The upcoming scripting system also means we can start reaching out to a whole new subset of programmers (JS folks, I.e. the biggest coding community in existence) who might wanna collaborate with us. This could shorten our timeline a bit.

TODOs

I’ve begun adding some big-ticket items to the v1 milestone:
https://github.com/fishfolks/punchy/milestone/7

Feel free to add more.

A few things don’t have a dedicated tracking issue yet:

• Multiplayer netcode
• Steam/itch integration, e.g. https://github.com/HouraiTeahouse/bevy-steamworks
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