Status: Draft for first publish wave
Proposed slug: /roadmap/live-vs-unity-crosswalk
Page type: history-roadmap
Owner: Riley
This page keeps ApeScape editors from treating the public website roadmap and the Unity engineering roadmap as the same document.
The live site roadmap is a public-facing rollout ladder for the website, community surface, collection presentation, and future bridge work. The repo-derived roadmap set is a deeper engineering program for a Unity-first pre-beta game. Both are real, but they answer different questions.
For source precedence rules, see Source Map and Canon. For shared labels such as live now, planned, and engineering direction, reuse the wording from Glossary.
| Track | Source surface | What it describes | Current posture | Safe wiki label | Editor warning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public roadmap | https://apescape.xyz/roadmap/ |
Website/community rollout phases | Phase 0 and Phase 1 are In Progress; later phases are Planned, Research, or Experimental |
live roadmap |
Do not read these phases as proof that a gameplay system is already implemented |
| Engineering roadmap | Repo-derived roadmap references from APE-2800 | Unity-first product and systems direction | Planning and implementation direction, not live-site status proof | engineering direction |
Do not market these phases as launch-ready without live proof |
| Project-state narrative | Repo-derived project-state references from APE-2800 | Current product posture and pre-beta framing | Describes intended product state more deeply than the live site | current project state |
Use to explain direction, not to assert shipped features |
| Tracker/inventory layer | APE-2800, APE-2802, APE-2799 brief | Editorial and operational translation | Working reference layer for the wiki team | editorial reference |
Never let this layer outrank an upstream source |
Phase 0: Domain + Foundation -> In ProgressPhase 1: ApeScape Online Website -> In ProgressPhase 2: Community Hub + Updates -> PlannedPhase 3: NFT Collection Integration -> PlannedPhase 4: Browser Game Bridge -> PlannedPhase 5: MMO / ORPG Systems -> ResearchPhase 6: ApeChain Expansion -> ExperimentalUse the repo-derived roadmap and project-state references when the page needs:
Do not use the repo-derived roadmap alone to claim a feature is live on the public site.
The page-set reconciliation for this first publish wave still depends on the 13-page APE-2799 plan of record, not on any older APE-2802 tracker rows.
When a page mentions both surfaces, write in this order: