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chrismaltby / gb-studio

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system
https://www.gbstudio.dev
MIT License
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Very good project but some good features are missing. #513

Open ashrafulislambd opened 4 years ago

ashrafulislambd commented 4 years ago

I would like the following features to be added:-

  1. Player Shooting, Throwing Items, etc. actions
  2. Flexible UI system. Suppose I want to make a UI inventory for items.
  3. Custom Actors as well as objects.
  4. More Flexibility on scripting. Though the Engine is no-coding, it would be much better if there were a scripting option available.
  5. Isometric Game support and collisions.
  6. Waiting for 3D mode too

Very good engine. It will be a lot useful if the features are implemented. Vote who of you agree with me.

eishiya commented 4 years ago
  1. Player projectiles are available in 2.0.
  2. Inventories and other such menus can already be done. Example: https://toxworks.itch.io/menu-system-in-gb Of course, more flexibility is always welcome, e.g. being able to use Actors as items in a GBS menu.
  3. What would a custom actor entail? You can already customize how actors look, move, and behave, and you can customize their animations beyond the default animation types with scripts. The main missing feature is different actor sizes.
  4. You can already Eject Engine and edit the C code directly to add additional features, and subsequent builds from within GBS will use your modified code, AFAIK.
  5. An isometric option would be interesting to see! The main differences would be player movement, which would be at angles rather than directly vertical/horizontal, and some way to mark the heights of tiles in the collision editor. Presumably there would need to be a way to set how far an actor can jump (i.e. whether a given height difference counts as collision or not), but this could probably be controlled with scripts too.
  6. The GB can't do 3D, 3D can only be faked with different backgrounds. If you're talking about first-person games, those can already be created quite easily. Just hide the Player and switch scenes based on the directional inputs. Example: https://jojoruteon.itch.io/3dmaze-gbstudio The ability to animate backgrounds could be used to make these types of games feel more 3D by swapping tiles live, but modifying the VRAM to achieve this is difficult to make fast in the general case. ( I wouldn't be surprised if some basic 3D demos existed on the GB, but doing a whole game in 3D at a playable framerate is beyond the GB's capability, as it just doesn't play well with the way the hardware works.)