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Community Meeting

November 01 2025

Summary

  • Recognizing contributors
  • Updates for each team area
  • How to get involved in teams
  • Q&A and feedback

Power Point Presentation PDF


Kudos & Recognition

  • Kudos for Rora, made a Game Reference Library entry
  • Kudos for MooMarMouse, made gem sounds
  • Lore Team in general for working very hard
  • Special thanks to Warren, Sp3cialK and Maloki for helping a lot with that long meeting
  • Kudos to Design for helping us get caught up with the rest of the team
  • Kudos to our Guides for the work they have been doing with new contributors
  • Nid already on the build server and making stuff after just one day

Team Updates

  • New member Nid
  • Focus areas: Build, lore, docs, design teams
  • Pronouns: he/him/they
  • Background: D&D player
  • Time zone: UTC-6

Program Updates

Guide Program

Status: Full swing

  • Two wanderers completed program
  • Four currently in progress
  • One additional guide approved
  • Action: Open general ticket to participate as guide or guided

Outreach

  • New outreach cycle planned for near future
  • Goal: Increase involvement, excitement, and hype

0.3.0 Update: Rift Expansion

Planning Phase

  • Tentative title: Rift Expansion Update
  • Proposal in idea submissions for feedback
  • Reviewing suggestions and incorporating feedback
  • Creating discussion topics for specific features
  • Generating GitHub issues and asset requests

Art Completed

  • Updated art tag guidelines (pinned in asset request)
  • More Mob skins
  • Rune Gem Sound submissions (geode opening effect)

Model votes expected soon:

  • Rune Anvil
  • Riftspawner
  • Skillbench
  • Rift portals

Art Tasks

  • Shift focus to sound and art tasks
  • Expand mobs, Consider other vanilla mobs / Explore custom mob creation

Pack Tasks

0.2.0 Feedback:

  • Expecting 0.2.1 release soon
  • Shifting to multiplayer feedback focus
  • Expanding data pack content
  • Adjusting data pack and suggesting mod changes

Rune Gems & Abilities:

  • Building more abilities
  • Configuring new rune gems

Design Completed

Phase Three Complete:

  • Core loop definition: "Prepare, Rift, and Advance"

Currently drafting GDD

  • Confidence vote open for phases 1-3 (pillars, player experience, core loop)

Next Meeting Topics:

  • Vanilla's role in pack/mod
  • Vanilla integration
  • Reopening pitch to feature process

New entry on mod Monumenta

Design Tasks

  • Pitch prep opens after GDD draft vote completes
  • Pulling pitch preps aligned with 0.3.0 Rift expansion focus
  • Design team needed for idea analysis from design perspective
  • Submit entries for Reference Library

Development Focus

0.2.1 Release Prep:

  • Guild updates
  • Quest updates
  • Organizational changes
  • Bug fixes and optimizations
  • Dev meeting scheduled (~37 min after general meeting)

Development Tasks

  • 0.2 update: Bug fixes, build updates, guild/quest features
  • Review 0.3.0 proposal for feasibility assessment
  • Organizational: Code review, guidelines, organizational behavior

Lore Completed

  • No main story, players create narratives
  • More concise lore preferred
  • 15-30% environmental storytelling
  • Task-driven, collaborative cross-team process

Lore Tasks

  • Refining canon and establishing rules

Build Completed

Three guild building submissions/versions available

  • Review on build server for size and style assessment
  • In-game player perspective evaluation needed

Build Tasks

  • Room reviews
  • Hub World concept submissions / reviews

Documentation Completed

  • General meeting notes
  • Two design meeting notes
  • Lore meeting notes
  • Game design document update

Docs Tasks

  • Glossary update
  • FAQ for new wanderers
  • Discord structure rundown
  • Ongoing meeting notes and discussion summaries
  • Website development progression: Create rough local drafts to explore possibilities

Attendance

  • @Sp3cialK
  • @WarrenGore
  • @Lins
  • @attackeight
  • @Kiyoto
  • @WolfsWeb
  • @MooMarMouse
  • @Rev
  • @Galactic_15
  • @Melancholic Adventurer
  • @rachaelrose1212
  • @slimes
  • @jyu
  • @maloki
  • @Rora
  • @Noxor
  • @řízek
  • @𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂nigel🦈
  • @ImplementsLegend
  • @Galactic_15