Plans

This is a non-exhaustive list of feature implementation plans. Some of these are obsolete.

Current Plans

Includes active plans, future plans, and speculative plans (the latter two of which are sometimes hard to tell apart)

Graphics, slices

• Plan for 256 color sprites (in progress)
• Plan for allowing other screen resolutions (in progress)
• Plan for customisable frame rates (in progress)
• Plan for hero sprite overlays
• Plan for gfx_directx (in progress)
• Plan for per-vertex transformation (in progress)
• Plan for cleanup and control of fades (in progress)
• Plan for converting special screens to slices (in progress)
• Plan for converting battle display to slices (in progress)
• Plan for Canvas slices

Scripting

• Plan for script multitasking (in progress)
• Plan for dynamic types in HamsterSpeak (in progress)
• Plan for a new library of script utility functions
• Plan for sane script error reporting (in progress)
• Plan for editing script snippets in Custom
• Plan for implementing battlescripting (in progress)

Saves

• Plan for saving NPC locations in savegames (in progress)
• Plan for saving more data in saved games
• Plan for save states
• Plan for faster game loading and upgrading (in progress)

NPCs, maps

• Plan for raising NPC-per-map limits (half done)
• Plan for non-tile-based walking
• Plan for letting NPCs move between maps

Battles, enemies, attacks

• Plan for battle formation improvements (in progress)
• Plan for attack balancing tool
• Plan for variables in battles
• Plan for enemy AI improvements

Textboxes, text, fonts

• Plan for text markup (in progress)
• Plan for text box file format change
• Plan for textboxes in battles
• Plan for unicode support (in progress)

Stats, spell lists, party

• Plan for more flexible stats
• Plan for stat buffs
• Plan for customized experience-to-next-level (in progress)
• Plan for improved spell learning
• Plan for larger hero reserve (in progress)

Items, inventory, equip, shops

• Plan for improved items
• Plan for full-inventory handling
• Plan for shop improvements
• Plan for hero inventories

UI, controls

• Plan for control remapping (in progress)
• Plan for a joystick config menu (in progress)

Other

• Plan for source file cleanup (permanently in-progress)
• Plan for an Editor Editor (in progress)
• Plan for In-App-Purchase Support (in progress)
• Plan for network support (in progress)

Nearly-Finished Plans

• Android Port (in progress)
• Plan for debug/release script error reporting modes (just add more error checking)
• Plan for more flexible elementals (almost done)
• Plan for improved attack chaining (a few more proposed chain conditions)
• Plan for input recording and playback
• Plan for new graphics rendering
• Plan for slice tree (only menus are left to convert)
• Portable GNU-Linux binaries

Repetitive Plans

• How to make a release

Plans That We Are Finished With

Listed here for proud posterity.

• RELOAD
• Plan for increasing available tags
• Plan for default master palette replacement
• Plan for full UI color customization
• Plan for main menu customization
• Plan for spriteset import/export
• Plan for file format upgrade unification
• Plan for queueable attacks
• Plan for merging hero and NPC walkabout layers
• Plan for turn-based battles
• Plan for cleanup of stale temporary files
• Plan for platform-specific button names
• Plan for uicolors.bin box style cleanup (splitting colors and box styles)
• Plan for new save format
• Plan for Distribution menu
• Plan for improved mouse support
• Plan for increasing item limit
• Plan for global NPC definitions

Plans That Were Superceded Or Abandoned

• Plan for real script arrays (obsolete, see Plan for dynamic types in HamsterSpeak instead)
• Plan for magic variables in HamsterSpeak (obsolete, details to be added to Plan for dynamic types in HamsterSpeak)
• Plan for new RPG format (canceled, some ideas live on in other plans, such as RELOAD)
• Plan for plotscripting plugins (canceled for cross-platform compatibility)
• Plan for raising sprite frame limits (replaced by RGFX)
• Plan for animating enemies (replaced by RGFX, animations still a WIP)
• Plan for bigger walkabouts (replaced by RGFX)
• Plan for merging DT6 and ATTACK.BIN (go straight to RELOAD)

See Also

• Source
• Improving the Program