Side-Scrolling Adventure Game

[Joel87]

Hi Guys

Well, i'm currently evaluating some engines for an Adventure Game i'm planning. There won't be any combat or stats, only dialogues, an inventory and portrait animation.

The whole thing should be from a Sidescroller View. I've seen it being done in RPG Maker on YouTube and it looks nice, but still i've got some questions which you might be able to help me answer:

- I'd like to implement a Portrait View of the Player Character which is always visible in the Bottom of the Screen and reacts to certain situations. There are also idle animations like blinking etc. which make it feel more alive.

- The Inventory should also always be visible in the Bottom of the Screen, in a Hotbar kind of way.

- I think my characters are not in 48 x 48, but more like in traditional adventure games, where the height and width of a Character depends on his or her physical appearance.

To make things a bit more clearer, i attached a Screenshot of a Game i'm currently working on in Visionaire, which pretty much has all of these features implemented (except Keyboard Control of the Game, which Visionaire doesn't offer, that's why it's in a more traditional Point n' Click vein.)

Thank you for your help!

 

[Snuffy]

Funny, as I read what you wanted to do my first thought was "you should try Visionaire."  I'd be surprised if no one over there could script some keyboard inputs, as with the massive sucess of Stasis I'll bet there is a lot of new interest in the engine.  As I am new here as well I don't have any input to help you with your questions sadly.  The pixel art looks great though!

 

[DorkLord]

Have you considered Adventure Game Studio? It's not as snazzy as Visionaire but it's just as functional and it's been a while since I've used it but I believe it allows keyboard inputs out of the box as it were.