todo.txt

core/game
- child stages?

core/resources
- hot reload AudioClips

core/graphics
* depth buffer
* stencil buffer
- render graph [from old Halley?]
- convert uniforms into attributes for distance_field_sprite?
- optimise SpritePainter
- run rendering on another thread? [RESEARCH]
- multi-pass: disable batching
- fallback shaders
- Codegen vertex attribute data? [RESEARCH]

input
- input context system [RESEARCH]
- use GameController API, ditch XInput+Joystick (should be superceded)

audio
* rate limiting
* multiple "layers" (with individual listeners for them)
- range compression/ducking
- audio environments
- source filters
- listener filters
- effects/DSP
  - low-pass [RESEARCH]
  - reverb [RESEARCH]
  - doppler shift [RESEARCH]

entity
- load prefabs
- generalised rendering
- universal hierarchical transforms [RESEARCH]
- query other entities? [RESEARCH]
- smearing systems
- systems as parallel tasks [RESEARCH]
- better timelines?
- foreign language systems [RESEARCH]
- defragment/optimize memory? [RESEARCH]
- snapshot world

ui
* tab order
* research CJK
- reduce draw calls

lua
- lua bindings for C++ objects
- codegen Lua
- Lua systems
- codegen component
- codegen system

editor
* project properties
- asset view/edit meta
- create project from template
- game stats display
- console commands back-end
- prefab editor?
- scene editor? [RESEARCH]
- animation editor
- system/component/message editor
- render graph editor
- state machine editor? [RESEARCH]
- compile game
- launch game

asset importing
* load ase without external process
- generate fonts with OpenCL

utils
- collision detection & triggers
- consider replacing STL with EASTL or similar?
- improve Halley::String?
- write my own memory pool/replace boost::pool?
- DirectoryMonitor support on Linux and Mac

samples
- make a minimal "template" sample
- ports from my old game jam games:
  - ggj16 ("Anu & Ki") - from Unity
  - ggj15 ("A Horrible Night") - from Unity
  - poh13 ("Dungeon Butler") - from Halley 1
  - ggj13 ("Stoneheart: The Beauty in the Beast") - from Halley 1
  - ggj12 ("Trapped: In the Chambers of Eternal Darkness") - from Halley 1 [WIP]
  - spjam11 ("Down Goes the Phoenix") - from Halley 1
  - ggj11 ("Planetary Plan C") - from Halley 1
  - sh09 ("Xtreme Programming - the Literal Game") - from Allegro
  - sh07 ("Fury of the Sky God") - from Allegro
  - sh05 ("Bunkermaster") - from Allegro

misc/refactor
- Use C++ modules?

platforms
- Android?
- iOS?
- Emscripten?

vulkan?
- future support?