You know, I was thinking the other night that it would be cool if the RPG in a Box "sequel" went the low-poly 3D route and included it's own simple modeller for making art, but thought that would be too complex to animate. But, if you do eventually support creating skeletal animations in RiaB in the future, maybe that dream might become a reality one day! XD
I wasn't planning to dive too deeply into RPG in a Box for a while, but I'm really liking the fact that I can make all my game art right in the application without having to go into a external editor. That convenience makes all the difference in the world for me, and you even have a sound generator included with music generation as a long-term goal? Super cool. I'm thinking I might switch development of my game away from RPG Maker and into RiaB instead. Hopefully your sales are going/will go well enough that you can keep working on this wonderful software long-term. Once it hits 1.0, it'll be the best RPG making software on the market!
Thanks so much for the kind words, Armaan! I'm really glad to hear you're liking the software and what I have planned for it. I hope to eventually reach the point where every aspect of your game can be made within the software. I'm definitely committed to RPG in a Box for the long-term and will do whatever I can to continue working on it full-time!
In regards to skeletal animation, I don't have specific plans to support it currently, however it's one of those things I may look into later down the road after the software is mostly complete since I like experimenting with new ideas. :) Thanks for all of the feedback so far!
Hello and thank you for your Replies,
i have made my first Character for RPG in a Box with the new Limitations (for me ;-) ) its a little bit tricky but it goes:
Justin Arnold wrote:
I also have a Discord server set up now - if you are interested, let me know and I will send you an invite link.
Yes, i like Discord but with my english, we can try it :-)
Thanks again :-)
Hi Armaan, thanks so much for the support! :)
Glad to hear that you like the combat system so far! As you suggested, I'm planning for the main/default system to be of the "turn-based tactics" style similar to the games you mentioned. Some of my inspirations are the Shining Force series and older Ultima games, so definitely something along those lines, with AoE attacks, a party system, etc.!
And yep, I do plan to support additional systems as well, like the "line dance" style and possibly even some simple forms of real-time later on down the road. I haven't worked out all of the details yet, but I'm expecting to have a gameplay setting to choose the base combat system to use for your game, then some additional settings to tweak beyond that based on the type chosen.
Hopefully that helps!
Very cool. Do you have a timeline estimate for when you think line dance battles will be implemented? My current game was originally designed for RPG Maker, and was built around those kinds of battles. Not that I need them anytime soon or anything, I can keep myself busy for a while yet making the maps and events and everything else. I was just curious what sort of personal timeline you're working on.
It's just a rough guess at this point, but based on current efforts and the order I have things planned, I would say probably sometime this summer. I'm currently working on migrating all of the existing functionality over to Godot 3.0, so unfortunately there won't be any new major features until I get through that. At this point, I am thinking that effort still has a few months of work left. After the migration is complete and I get Steam Early Access launched, one of the first things I'd like to focus on is building out the combat systems more!
The move to Godot 3.0 is taking a while to get through, but it's going to contain a lot of nice little improvements to the editors and I think it will be worth the wait. :)
Hey James, thanks, I hope you're doing well also! I'll be making the keys available once it gets closer to the start of Early Access and I have a proper build set up on Steam. I'm shooting for around the end of the year, so hopefully it won't be too much longer! :)
