Nice update and thanks a lot for this, also have you thought of making a plugin that enables animating images and displaying them on a part of the screen?
For example having a full body portrait of the character (not the pixel sprite more like a higher res image of the character) at the right side of the screen that plays a character_idle animation and when our player is attacked the idle animation plays a hit animation and then it changes to character_damaged animation.
So the plugin would be for displaying the images and animating them by cycling to frames or selecting each frame, and to be able to change the image and its animations by variables like health being low, or an event triggering a variable or things like that.
I would buy that plugin if you ever make it, maybe there are alternatives out there but I would prefer yours to ensure compatibility with the rest of your plugins.