Set Development Roadmap

The following is a detailed road-map of most things you would want to consider while making an achievement set. It's not required to follow this exactly but is meant as a guide.

Initial Research

• Game manual: Review
• Game Faqs: Read/check
• Game Cheats: Find, note
• Longplay: Review/watch
• Similar sets: Compare, note favorite ideas
• Partimes: check if they exist
• Speedruns: check if they exist

Conceptual Design

• Achievements 1: Brainstorm, include ideas from similar sets, manual, etc.
  • Note secrets, progress, key events, collectibles, scores benchmarks, Easter eggs, bosses, key items, par times, internal rewards.
• Research 2: Check/test that designs are possible.
• Memory 1: Estimate needed addresses for achievements.

Memory hunt

• Memory 2: Search for needed memory addresses.

Achievement Design

• Balance 1: Balance set for difficulty distribution, remove or redesign those that don't fit.
• Achievements 2: Build the list, push complete to unofficial (not required).
• Memory 3: Search for solutions missing, depending on the game's memory.
• Achievements 3: Add new ideas as they come.
• Achievements 4: Rework or remove ideas that are impossible.

Pre-release Final steps

• Titles & Descriptions: Finalize
• Bugs 1: Test achievements for bugs, possibly make/use movies.
• Game page: Update. Game icon, images, info, resources, similar games.
• Leaderboards (optional): Code
• Rich presence: Code
• Badges: Create

Release

• Achievements 7: Push to core
• Points: Balance to your cap
• Ordering: Do it
• Forum post: Make announcement

Post Release

• Bugs 2: Fix those that come.
• Balance 2: Re-balance set difficulty based on feedback.