The Grand Design

Brand & Identity

• ✦Domain, brand identity & logo suite
• ✦Coming soon landing page + email waitlist
• ✦Professional email — [email protected]
• ✦Social media presence (X, Reddit, TikTok)

Community & Legal

• ✦Discord server with 7 roles & 27 channels
• ✦Legal docs — Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

Platform

• ✦Next.js 14 platform on Cloudflare Pages
• ✦Supabase authentication & database
• ✦7-Step World Creation Wizard
• ✦Character creator — race, class, backstory, abilities
• ✦NPC system with personality & relationships

AI Engine

• ✦AI Game Sessions with real-time SSE streaming
• ✦9-model AI fallback chain via OpenRouter

Monetization

• ✦Stripe subscriptions — Free / Standard / Premium / Founders

Admin

• ✦Admin panel — user, world, session & error monitoring
• ✦Discord notification system for admin alerts
• ✦Developer tier-switcher panel

✅ Shipped — Platform Foundation

• ✦✅ Settings page (5 tabs — Account, Appearance, Notifications, Security, Data)
• ✦✅ Billing portal (Stripe — manage subscription, cancel, update payment)
• ✦✅ Permission system (13 permissions + 5 bundles + trusted users)
• ✦✅ CR System Foundation (9 ranks: Wanderer → Aether Lord)
• ✦✅ Admin panel — user management, permission modal, monitoring
• ✦✅ Interactive onboarding tutorial (6 steps, +100 CR reward)
• ✦✅ Admin panel expansion — live analytics, world management, feature flags, broadcast announcements
• ✦✅ Platform announcement banner (tier-targeted, dismissible)

✅ Shipped — Community & AI Features

• ✦✅ AetherNet — global hub (all adventurers auto-joined, 8 channels, real-time chat)
• ✦✅ Communities — create & join player communities (public/private/request-to-join)
• ✦✅ Real-time messaging (Supabase Realtime — live channels in every community)
• ✦✅ World Chronicles — AI-generated chapter books with PDF export
• ✦✅ Session Recaps — Previously On... session summary overlay
• ✦✅ World Postcards — offline NPC message inbox
• ✦✅ Standing Orders — pre-authorized character behavior guidelines

✅ Shipped — Living World

• ✦✅ NPC Persistent Memory — persistent NPC memory system (DB + AI context injection)
• ✦✅ NPC Relationship Web — track NPC-to-NPC relationships
• ✦✅ Scheduled World Events — calendar-based world event system
• ✦✅ AI Session Recaps — integration with PreviouslyOn overlay

🔵 In Progress — Phase 4 Foundation

• ✦🔵 Direct Messages — user-to-user messaging & group chats
• ✦🔵 Achievement System — 11 achievements with CR rewards
• ✦🔵 World Gallery — browse & rate community worlds

🟣 Upcoming — v0.4.0 Planned

• ✦🎤 Voice Channels — LiveKit voice rooms in communities (behind feature flag)
• ✦📹 Video Rooms — LiveKit video meeting rooms (behind feature flag)
• ✦🗳️ Community Elections — vote for community roles (behind feature flag)
• ✦🛍️ World Marketplace — buy/sell world templates (behind feature flag)

Profiles & Settings

• ✦True profile personalization — avatar, banner, bio, showcase worlds
• ✦AI model selection — users choose their preferred model (tier-gated)
• ✦Advanced settings — streaming speed, TTS narrator voice, display theme, notifications

Community

• ✦Community forum with genre-specific categories
• ✦User-to-user messaging — DMs + group chats for multiplayer parties
• ✦Achievement & badge system — 100 Sessions, World Builder, NPC Whisperer

World Gallery

• ✦Public world gallery — browse & rate community worlds
• ✦World ratings & reviews
• ✦Creator profiles with follower system

Character Progression

• ✦Character progression — XP, leveling, skill trees
• ✦AI-generated character & NPC portraits from text descriptions
• ✦Character relationship web — visual graph of connections
• ✦Character journal — auto-populated from session history
• ✦Multiple characters per world
• ✦D&D 5e character sheet import
• ✦Legacy system — dead characters leave permanent world lore

World Mechanics

• ✦World forking — create alternate timeline worlds
• ✦World templates marketplace with 70% creator revenue share
• ✦Co-GM mode — invite a friend as co-narrator

Multiplayer

• ✦Multiplayer sessions — up to 4 players simultaneously
• ✦Split-party support — different players in different locations
• ✦WebRTC voice chat built into session UI

Combat & Inventory

• ✦Turn-based combat system with initiative tracker & visual dice
• ✦Inventory & equipment management
• ✦Quest & objective tracker
• ✦Session replay — watch any past session cinematically
• ✦Twitch/YouTube streaming integration with overlay

Mobile & Offline

• ✦Mobile apps — React Native (iOS & Android)
• ✦Progressive Web App — installable on any device
• ✦Offline mode — play without internet, sync on reconnect

Marketplace

• ✦Full world marketplace — buy/sell worlds, scenarios, templates
• ✦Affiliate program — 30% recurring commission for creators
• ✦Referral system — refer a friend, both get 1 free month
• ✦Annual billing plans — 2 months free
• ✦Gift subscriptions
• ✦Team/family plans
• ✦Usage-based billing beyond free quota

Developer Platform

• ✦Public developer API with Python/JS SDK
• ✦Webhook system for custom integrations
• ✦World export to PDF/book format
• ✦Desktop app — Electron with system tray NPC notifications

Enterprise

• ✦Enterprise & education plans