New ideas for RPG in a Box! originally posted on steam

Maniac

New ideas for RPG in a Box!
Note: you can comment more ideas below.
Note 2: this is not meant to insult others or game devs it is just some ideas I've had.
Note 3: (some are most likely being worked on already)

My ideas:

(Most likely being worked on already but) NPC Free-movement
:notes: this would add a lot of more realism to the game and overall more challenge to enemy's.
Default equipment option to show equipped items in Voxel editor.
:notes: this would make sculpting and modeling a lot easier.
Showing marching cubes and smooth textures in voxel editor.
:notes: this would add the same as idea two (:notes: this would make sculpting and modeling a lot easier.)
Add holding animations for different weapons.
:notes: like two-handed weapons having a walk animation with two hands holding the weapon :notes-2: you can already do this with (override_animation(player, "walk", "new_walk"); ).
adding people to credits.
:notes: this would add automatically adding people to the credits after using the workshop or asset library.
2D angle setting.
:notes: already in game but add it as a setting.
Skill animations.
:notes: adding a strike animation to the ground for a smash skill. etc.
add swimming or double free-movement.
:notes: you would be able to go up, down, north, west, east, and south. or for free-movement you can go anywhere.
:notes 2: this could also be good for submarines or planes.
dice to go with the trading card system
:notes: a dice for dnd like games would be cool.

(Note: this is my final suggestion for the first version, [this will become a guide to add more things.])
10!. custom main menus
:notes: this would be good for so many reasons like custom settings like difficulty that would edit stats of entity's.and button movement.

to all who read this thank you for your time.
-Maniac

Justin

Maniac Thanks so much for the suggestions, these are some great ideas!

NPC free movement will definitely be coming - either in or before 2.0.

Marching cubes can be previewed in the editor by clicking the "Preview Game Mesh" button on the toolbar. It's not real-time since you need to switch into that view, but I thought it might be helpful to mention!

Could you provide some more details around the "2D angle setting" that's mentioned?

As for dice, I'm not sure if this is specifically what you're interested in, but there is a D&D-style dice syntax that you can use in scripts. See "Dice Rolls" here: https://rpginabox.com/docs/doku.php?id=script_syntax

Regarding custom main menus, Slayer has a couple of tutorial videos covering this that might help out:

Sp1itLip

Justin

For 2D angle settings, he might mean to the degree of which the camera is isometric. Like... 90 degrees is top down, I think many standard isometric games use somewhere between 40 and 65 degrees.

Maniac

Justin 2d angle setting would be for ((again it is already in game) but just a quick setting would be nice) like the stumpy the squirrels parkour example game camera angle

The "As for dice, I'm not sure if this is specifically what you're interested in, but there is a D&D-style dice syntax that you can use in scripts. See "Dice Rolls" here: https://rpginabox.com/docs/doku.php?id=script_syntax" is perfect.