Updated Development Roadmap for 2022

Greetings everyone! We hope everybody had a great year so far!

We have updated the development roadmap for Northern Lights to reflect the current status of the game! Full roadmap and details available below.

• Improvements to character animations - Released in 0.5
• General UI and UX Improvements based on current feedback - Released in 0.5
• New quest based tutorials to get players through some of the basics of the game - Released in 0.5
• New game languages - Released in 0.5
• New and improved ambient sounds and soundtracks - Released in 0.6
• New and improved character action sounds - Released in 0.6
• Improvements to existing interaction sounds - Released in 0.6
• Improvements to sound balancing and mastering - Released in 0.6
• Controller support - Released in 0.7
• Custom difficulty settings - Released in 0.7

• Brand new Story Mode focused on exploration and lore, with re-written escape ending! - Released in 0.7
• Improvements to Character Dialogues & Voice-Overs - Released in 0.8
• Steam Achievements for both Story Mode and Survival Mode - Released in 0.8
• Brand new Side Quests for the notes collectibles system

• New drivable Snowmobile vehicle - Released in 0.8
• Improvements to animal hunting - Released in 0.8
• Improvements to animal AI - Released in 0.9
  
• Improvements to small and filler locations
• Improvements to nature level design
• Improvements to existing locations
• Improvements to some graphics elements of the game
• Improvements to overall game performance in open world locations

• Everything else that's left for the game to be considered finished!
• The long awaited CO-OP Survival mode

We will keep this Road-Map updated with any new additions or changes! Thanks to everybody for reading and for the ongoing support!

- MadGoat Team