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Roadmap

Overview​

Global Illumination, the company behind Biomes, was recently acquired. New responsibilities have meant that the team cannot continue Biomes development alone...

Thanks to the tremendous community, support, and enthusiasm that has grown around Biomes, we would like to keep Biomes alive and continue development through open-source contributions. Biomes has been open sourced and we are currently working to build and recruit the required community resources.

Supporting Biomes​

Because the transition to open-source has happened so recently, we have not yet ironed out the table stakes for enabling willing community members to contribute to the project.

Key items include:

  • More extensive documentation of Biomes codebase.
  • Documentation of the admin tools used for development. Enabling seamless local developments.
  • Creating open-source development workflows.
  • Guidelines for contributing.
  • Determining how Biomes can be hosted, independent of funding from Global Illumination.
  • Allowing self-hosted deployments to have persistent storage.

How can I help?​

  • Follow the local development guide and report issues that you run into during the process on the Biomes GitHub! Being able to run the game locally is instrumental in enabling open-source contributions.
  • Join and support the community on the Biomes Discord! The strength of any community comes down to its members. A HUGE THANKS to everyone who's already joined and has helped to create the community's supportive and accepting culture!