Issue Roadmap

Status: 32 open issues (as of February 2026) Organization: Issues grouped by system and priority tier

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Overview

McRogueFace has made substantial progress since October 2025, closing over 60 issues across performance, animation, UI hierarchy, input handling, procedural generation, and cross-platform deployment. The engine now has a mature foundation with 32 remaining open issues, most of which are tier 2-3 enhancement work rather than blocking foundation issues.

Priority Tiers:

• Tier 1: Active Development - Current focus, critical path items
• Tier 2: Foundation Work - Important but not blocking near-term goals
• Tier 3: Future Features - Deferred until after current priorities
• Tier 4: Deferred - Long-term / speculative

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Recently Completed Milestones

The engine has been exceptionally productive since October 2025. Major systems that are now done:

Performance Foundation (All Complete)

• #104 Basic profiling/metrics
• #113 Batch operations for Grid
• #115 SpatialHash implementation
• #116 Dirty flag system
• #144 Dirty flag caching
• #146 FOV optimization

Animation System (All Complete)

• #100 Rotation support
• #119 Animation callbacks
• #120 Animation property locking

Python Binding Layer (All Complete)

• #101 Standardize constructor defaults
• #109 mcrfpy.Vector convenience
• #126 Perfect Python interface generation

Documentation Infrastructure (All Complete)

• #91 Python type stub files (.pyi)
• #92 Inline C++ documentation system (MCRF_* macros)
• #97 Automated API documentation

UI Component Hierarchy (All Complete)

• #102 Global position property
• #118 Scene as drawable
• #122 Parent-child UI system

Input System (All Complete)

• #138-#142 AABB hit testing, mouse events, click/hover callbacks

Grid System (Major Progress)

• #132 Grid children
• #147-#150 Grid layer system (TileLayer, ColorLayer, WangTileLayer)

Procedural Generation (Complete System)

• #192-#210 Full procgen toolkit: BSP, HeightMap, NoiseSource, DiscreteMap
• Tiled XML/JSON import pipeline
• LDtk import with auto-rule resolution

Cross-Platform (All Complete)

• #157 Headless execution mode
• #158 Emscripten/WASM deployment
• #172-#173 Timer refactor

Rendering

• #106 Shader support

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Current Open Issues (32)

3D System Gaps

Tier 2 Foundation - VoxelGrid and Entity3D polish

Issue	Title	Notes
#245	screen_to_world() only intersects Y=0 plane	Limits 3D picking
#244	Entity3D.viewport returns None	Missing back-reference
#243	EntityCollection3D missing pop(), find(), extend()	API parity with 2D
#242	Entity3D.animate() raises NotImplementedError	Blocks 3D animation

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Rendering Enhancements

Issue	Title	Tier
#237	Multi-tile entities using composite sprites	Tier 3
#236	Multi-tile entities using oversized sprites	Tier 3
#235	Texture display bounds for non-uniform sprite content	Tier 3
#234	Entity origin offset for oversized sprites	Tier 3
#233	Enhance Entity rendering and positioning capabilities	Tier 3
#227	Silent failure when RenderTexture creation fails	Tier 1 bugfix
#107	Particle system	Tier 3

#227 is the only tier 1 item here - a silent failure that should at minimum emit a warning.

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WebAssembly / Playground

Tier 3 Future - WASM deployment is working; these improve developer experience

Issue	Title
#240	Playground troubleshooting docs
#239	Automated WASM testing infrastructure
#238	Emscripten debugging infrastructure

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Animation

Issue	Title	Tier
#218	mcrfpy.Color and mcrfpy.Vector animation targets	Tier 2

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Grid System

Issue	Title	Tier
#152	Sparse Grid Layers	Tier 3
#149	Reduce UIGrid.cpp size (refactor)	Tier 3
#145	TexturePool with power-of-2 bucketing	Tier 4
#124	Grid Point Animation	Tier 4
#67	Grid Stitching: infinite world	Tier 3

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Performance

Issue	Title	Tier
#117	Memory Pool for Entities	Tier 3

The performance foundation is complete (profiling, spatial hash, dirty flags, batch ops, FOV optimization). This remaining issue is an advanced optimization for entity-heavy scenarios.

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LLM Agent Testbed

Tier 2-3 - Research and experimentation platform

Issue	Title	Tier
#156	Turn-based LLM Agent Orchestration	Tier 2
#154	Grounded Multi-Agent Testbed	Tier 2
#55	Agent Simulation Environment	Tier 3

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Platform & Distribution

Issue	Title	Tier
#220	Subinterpreter Support	Tier 4
#70	Package without embedded interpreter	Tier 3
#62	Multiple Windows	Tier 3
#54	Jupyter Notebook Interface	Tier 3
#53	Alternative Input Methods	Tier 2
#46	Subinterpreter tests	Tier 4
#45	Accessibility modes	Tier 4

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Tutorial & Demo

Issue	Title	Tier
#167	r/roguelikedev Tutorial Series Demo Game	Tier 2

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Immediate Focus: 7DRL 2026

7DRL 2026 is imminent (February/March 2026). The engine is in strong shape for a game jam entry. Current priorities:

1. Stability over new features - The engine has a comprehensive feature set; focus on polish and bug fixes
2. #227 RenderTexture silent failure - The one tier 1 bugfix that could cause hard-to-debug issues during a jam
3. 3D system polish (#242-#245) - If 7DRL uses the 3D/voxel system, these gaps need attention
4. Tutorial demo game (#167) - Validates the full engine workflow

The completed procgen system (BSP, noise, heightmaps, Tiled/LDtk import, Wang tiles) and the mature animation, input, and UI systems provide a solid foundation for rapid game development.

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Issue Statistics

By Priority Tier:

• Tier 1 (Active): 1 issue (#227)
• Tier 2 (Foundation): 8 issues
• Tier 3 (Future): 16 issues
• Tier 4 (Deferred): 4 issues
• Untiered: 3 issues (WASM tooling)

By System:

• 3D System: 4 issues
• Rendering: 7 issues
• WebAssembly: 3 issues
• Animation: 1 issue
• Grid System: 5 issues
• Performance: 1 issue
• LLM Agent: 3 issues
• Platform/Distribution: 7 issues
• Tutorial/Demo: 1 issue

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Last updated: 2026-02-07