Development updates and release notes for RPG in a Box

Auto-Tiling

One of the new features that I have been working on recently is auto-tiling. I decided this would be something that would be very convenient to have – with this, map-making should be a bit quicker and less tedious, especially when initially building out a map that has a lot of transiti...

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Over this past month, I have mostly been focusing on enhancements to the scripting and dialogue system (along with the usual fixing of bugs along the way). Dialogue in particular is a feature that I feel is important to get nailed down early on since it plays an important role in most games. Scripti...

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Over the past few weeks, I have mostly been focusing on some new camera scripting functionality, improvements to the Voxel Editor tools, and various Script Editor updates. Apologies for how long it has been since my last development update. I’ve made it over some big hurdles, though, in regards to t...

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Voxel Editor Updates

Undo/Redo System

One notable feature that I recently implemented to help improve the usability of the Voxel Editor is an Undo/Redo system. While working in the Voxel Editor, you can now press the Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y keyboard shortcuts to undo and redo most actions involving mo...

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Hello again! One of the main areas I have been focusing development on recently is the Voxel Editor. I was never really happy with the usability of the Voxel Editor, which is one of the reasons I added support for importing from MagicaVoxel early on. I decided it was time to put some more attention...

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Hello again! I just wanted to provide a quick development update on what I have been working on the past couple of weeks. I have been mostly focusing on areas that I believe will improve the user experience in regards to game creation in RPG in a Box.

I have been adding various new functionality h...

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It’s that time again: another development update! Tomorrow (or possibly later tonight) I will be pushing the next release, v0.3.2-alpha, to itch.io for those who are participating in Founder’s Access, so I thought I would discuss the major changes that I have been working on recently. These change...

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Now that I’m back from vacation, I have jumped back into coding new features and fixing bugs! As an aside, I must admit that I also spent a couple of evenings attempting to recreate E1M1 of DOOM in RPG in a Box. 🙂

It’s something I’ve been wanting to try for a while now, and I finally gave into t...

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First of all, apologies for the delay in getting an update out. I am still alive and making progress! Since I have not been able to put a lot of time into the project the past few weeks, I have been focusing primarily on polishing/optimizing existing features and squashing bugs. I also cleaned up my...

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This release includes the new and improved Script Editor! The old “outline” style has been replaced with a visual graph and has drag-and-drop functionality similar to the Dialogue Editor.

Visual Script Editor

As shown below, the new Script Editor has been reworked into a more user-friendly edito...

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