TERMINAL MICRO ENGINE — FULL ROADMAP

✅ DONE SO FAR

(Completed & Stable)

🎛️ GUI Editor (Core)

• Visual editor for rooms
• Search & filter system
• Quick jump between rooms
• Add / delete / duplicate rooms
• Full action editor
• Full conditions editor
• OnFail actions editor
• Room-level image selection
• Editable room exits (N/S/E/W)

🎬 End Game Editor

• Simple end-game trigger system
• Custom end text or overlays
• Runtime detection of flags → triggers endings

📤 Runtime Export System

• One-click export to fully playable HTML/JS
• Bundles game_data.js, CSS, runtime JS
• Outputs portable mini-game folder
• Works offline and on browsers

🎨 CSS Templates

• Retro CRT green (DOS-style)
• Sci-fi monochrome
• Blue submarine horror
• Rusty post-apocalyptic
• Minimal clean white
• STALKER industrial
• 7+ swap templates ready, fully plug-and-play

📚 Documentation

• Basic User Guides
• “How to Build Your First Rooms”
• JSON structure explanation
• Tutorial demo rooms + example games

🧱 Main Engine Framework

• Stable interpreter
• Command input parser
• Conditions + actions + flags
• Image viewport (static/animated)
• 0 dependencies — pure JS/HTML/CSS

🚧 MID–TERM DEVELOPMENT (NEXT 1–3 MONTHS)

GUI Editor 2.0 (Major Upgrade)

• Drag&drop room reordering
• Visual map overview (ASCII or mini-grid)
• Copy–paste actions between rooms
• Validate JSON in real-time
• Bulk editing flags across rooms
• Multi-action editor panel
• Auto-highlight broken links/exits
• Live engine preview integrated into editor
• Export/import partial JSON segments (rooms only, actions only…)

Built-in Asset Shader Effects

(All client-side, no WebGL heavy features) Shader-style filters for viewport images:

• CRT distortion & scanlines
• Chromatic aberration
• Noise overlay
• Rust / dirt filters
• Color grading (matrix + presets)
• Pixelate, low-res dithering
• Glow / bloom (fake shader)
• Animated glitch sequences

These effects give a cinematic feel without needing external tools.

SFX Input System (Full Audio Support)

• Sound picker in editor
• Assign SFX per room, per action, per error, per success
• Ambient loops per room
• Typing sound customisation 
• Multi-event sound layers
• Volume control per action
• Export audio pack with runtime

Opening / Ending Cinematic Overlays

• Pre-game splash (logo, flicker intro)
• Fade-in scenes
• Multi-panel intro sequence (3–5 slides)
• End-game cinematic slideshow
• Optional typewriter narrative sequence
• Trigger animations based on flags

 New Runtime UI Animations

• Terminal glitch effects
• Text vibration when alert triggered
• Flashing warning banners
• Battery / hull integrity / radiation meters
• Static burst on camera change
• Customizable command prompt animations
• Scan or hack progress bar animation

Complex CSS Templates

• High-tech sci-fi interface (Mass Effect–like)
• Terminal 1990 UNIX grayscale
• Full STALKER/X-18 Laboratory Skin
• 80s cyberpunk neon CRT
• Blue “submarine tactical console”
• Industrial hazard-yellow scheme
• Minimal noir black/white
• Textured metal with fake depth

🧭 LONG–TERM EXPANSION (3–12 MONTHS)

Modular Plugin System

Developers can add:

• New actions types
• New condition sets
• UI widgets
• Custom terminal filters
• Room generators
• Audio/graphics packs

Simple plugin structure: upload JS file → engine reads it.

Advanced Room Map Visualizer

• Automatic map generation based on exits
• Node graph with lines
• Click nodes to edit room
• Color-coded rooms (visited, locked, hazard…)
• Export to PNG

Macro & Scripting Layer (Optional)

Keep JSON simple, but add optional advanced commands:

• conditional blocks
• simple math
• string variables
• mini scripting for advanced users

Inventory & Item System 2.0

• Equip/unequip
• Consumables
• Items with flags
• Items triggering room effects
• Drag & drop inside GUI
• Items visible in HUD

Performance & UX Improvements

• Virtualized scroll for large projects
• Optimized image loading
• Faster editor
• Undo/Redo stack
• Versioning system (auto backups)

 AI-Assisted Tooling (optional)

Not required, but powerful:

• “Generate room draft”
• “Explain conditions”
• “Fix broken exits”
• “Auto-create navigation map”