⌬ Gatewake Frontiers
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// Development Roadmap

Gatewake Roadmap

Expand. Build. Survive. Branch. Gatewake: Frontiers begins with a Sol-locked Terran demo, then grows into a persistent interstellar strategy game with faction expansions, planet-side gameplay, orbital logistics, and ancient gate mysteries.

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Current Priority

Marketing Site Stability

  • Homepage and marketing pages stay separate from playable game pages.
  • Demo and full game routes are handled by the game-code workflow.
  • Clean navigation: Home, Demo, Full Game, Factions, Roadmap, Support.
  • Roadmap visuals now use roadmap-topic art instead of race cards.
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Demo Branch

Sol Expansion Demo

  • Terran Coalition only.
  • Sol system only.
  • No interstellar travel.
  • Earth, Luna, Mars, asteroid belt, satellites, stations, shipyards, and planet-side gameplay.
  • Designed as the public introduction to Gatewake’s colony, fleet, and logistics systems.
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Base Game

Gatewake: Frontiers

  • Interstellar travel and gate network expansion.
  • Persistent saves, lobbies, observed games, and account identity.
  • Surface, orbit, system, near-system, and galaxy layers.
  • Trade routes, fleet logistics, civilian ships, frontier resupply, blockades, and strategic territory.
  • AI Council support for automation and logistics.
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Expansion I

Gatewake: Beyond the Frontier

  • Zero Consensus — machine automation, data grids, power cables, conveyor logistics, AI transport.
  • Mycelith Brood — living infrastructure, mutation, arteries, tendrils, biomass flow.
  • Aurelian Synod — doctrine, faith pressure, radiant cities, conversion mechanics.
  • Veyr Dominion — raids, tribute, warbands, fortress worlds, conquest momentum.
  • First major expansion of non-Terran playstyles and faction-specific planet-side systems.
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Planet-Side Visual Canon

First Five Surface Styles

  • Terran: practical colony roads, landing pads, research districts, modular industry.
  • Zero: cables, power grids, data conduits, rail networks, conveyor belts, automated transit.
  • Brood: no roads; living arteries, tendrils, root-webs, pulsing organic corridors.
  • Synod: sanctums, luminous plazas, doctrine beacons, processional avenues.
  • Veyr: war foundries, tribute compounds, raider staging yards, fortified military routes.
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Expansion II

Gatewake: Beyond the Gate

  • Orion Compact — trade, corporations, logistics, markets, contracts.
  • Nomad Ark Clans — mobile civilization, ark fleets, migration, survival, salvage.
  • Kethari Continuum — science, diplomacy, stability, rational planning.
  • Bastion Remnant — fortresses, chokepoints, endurance, defensive networks.
  • Gateborn Ascendancy — ancient gates, relics, precursor discoveries.
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Expansion III

Gatewake: Beyond the Wake

  • Abyssal Tide — oceanic pressure-world civilization and hidden water colonies.
  • Void Cult — forbidden physics, rituals, anomalies, unstable power.
  • Eidolon Choir — psionic dream-network and memory warfare.
  • Aetherion Enclave — gas giant cities, atmospheric platforms, storm harvesting.
  • Pyreborn Forge — volcanic industry, magma power, heat shielding.
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Beyond the Wake

Elemental and Extreme Worlds

  • Cryolith Covenant — ice-tech, stasis fields, frozen citadels.
  • Terrashard Collective — lithic unity, geo-engineering, crystal growth.
  • Fulgor Tempest — lightning warfare, ion storms, surge networks.
  • Extreme worlds become meaningful strategic terrain rather than simple backgrounds.
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Final Horizon

Late-Game Civilizations

  • Helios Ascendancy — solar power, radiant fleets, star-adjacent infrastructure.
  • Singularity Throne — synthetic assimilation and machine optimization.
  • Riftborn Conclave — dimensional rifts and reality manipulation.
  • Chronarch League — temporal mastery and predictive warfare.
  • Leapborn Tribes — primitive-to-space survival and adaptive raiding.
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Core Gameplay

Space-to-Planet Transition

  • Ships should visibly transition from orbit to planet-side view.
  • Sequence: orbital approach, atmospheric entry, clouds/weather, descent corridor, landing zone, surface handoff.
  • Planet-side view uses the locked 3D RTS city-builder direction.
  • Surface battles and colony logistics should feel connected to orbit.
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Engine / Systems

Technical Roadmap

  • Apex-style shader/render pipeline.
  • Renderer capability checks and crash overlays.
  • Socket diagnostics and save/lobby checks.
  • Server-enforced demo/full access.
  • Cloudflare tunnel readiness and deploy sentinel checks.