The game is planned to be released in several stages:

• Island Survival
  • This game state is simple. Start on an island, survive on it long enough to gather materials and tools, harvest items for building, and build/use a raft (later boat) to explore more islands in the world.
  • The world will be selectable by the player in terms of size and composition.
  • The world will only have the player, elements, time, and some environmental AI that will be roaming the world (i.e. no human characters that are interact-able other than as an enemy).
• Blackbeard the Builder
  • Player can construct buildings
  • New ships become available
  • Ships start to show customization options
  • Guns become available
• First Contact
  • Builds upon the first stage by adding in some human AI and some more exciting enemies.
  • World will have even more biomes with the world changing in style as the player moves through it
    • Moving north/south will change the temperate nature of the world (colder near the poles)
    • Moving east/west will change the type of architecture and vegetation
  • First interact-able humans that don’t want to kill you (at least at the start).
  • Trade and quests start appearing
• Pirate Hunter
  • Ship combat starts to take a role in both quests and trading.
  • Cities begin to take shape
  • Seas start to show who ‘controls’ them
  • Ship crew becomes available.
    • Hire or recruit crew to help man the braces!
• Merchant Marine
  • Cities begin to trade with each other
  • Merchants sell commodities in addition to items
  • City Governors start to affect the region
  • Trade routes, piracy, and pirate havens take shape
• Sea Titans
  • Regions take shape
    • A region can be divided on biome type, location, or even simple randomization
  • Seas are ruled by the ‘Sea Titans’ that are the kings of their respective region
  • Player can now attempt to clear a region of the Titan’s forces and claim the region for themself
  • Final game is now taking shape. From here on out it is just bug fixes and new content!