Roadmap

Where Hengo is going

Beta 1 is what the documentation describes today. The betas after it are the plan, not a schedule, and the list grows as the plan does.

Beta 1

Done

Everything the documentation covers

The first public build. Every feature written up in the docs is in it: the canvas, the state machine, the action catalog, live debugging and the GDScript build.

  • States on one canvas

    Machines, states, sub-states and the phases that run inside them, with transitions drawn between the cards.

    Read the docs

  • The action catalog

    Ready-made blocks for movement, physics, input, audio and UI, searched by what they do instead of by the name of an engine call.

    Read the docs

  • Variables, binds and properties

    Typed variables and node binds edited in the inspector, with renames that follow every place the value is used.

    Read the docs

  • Functions and macros

    Reusable routes inside a script, plus macros that stamp the same block of logic into as many states as needed.

    Read the docs

  • Live debugging

    Press Play, pick a running object, and watch the active state glow while each step that fires lights up.

    Read the docs

  • Dashboard and collections

    Scripts grouped in real folders, opened side by side, with a health check that sweeps the whole collection.

    Read the docs

  • Readable GDScript output

    The graph is the source, a plain .gd file is the build, and the game keeps running even without the plugin installed.

    Read the docs

  • Custom actions

    The action API, so a project can ship its own blocks next to the native ones and document them in the same tooltip.

    Read the docs

Beta 2

Planned

Finding things and picking things

A pass over everything that gets in the way of finding what you need: search across a whole collection, and menus that hold up once a project grows.

  • Search inside collections

    Search a whole collection at once, not one open script at a time, and jump straight to the hit.

  • Better menus and pickers

    Dropdowns, lists, bind pickers and popups reworked so long lists stay usable and every picker behaves the same way.

  • Better code search

    Faster results, better matching, and a panel that is easier to read.

  • More actions

    New blocks filling the gaps that still send people to a raw expression.

Beta 3

Planned

Debugging you can sit with

The debugger gets the same attention the editor got: a layout built for reading, a run you can replay, and control over what gets compiled with debug on.

  • A debugger built to be read

    A redesign of the whole debug view, so what the run is doing is legible at a glance instead of decoded frame by frame.

  • Save a run and replay it

    Record a debug session to a file and step through it afterwards, calmly, instead of trying to catch the bug live.

  • Pick what compiles with debug

    Select the scripts that carry debug instrumentation, so a heavy project only pays for the part being investigated.

  • Debug inside the running game

    Exploring

    An overlay in the game window itself, for the cases where reading the graph in the editor means looking away from what just happened.

  • More actions

    Another round of blocks, driven by what the demos still write by hand.

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