Dear Stencylers,
When we originally started out we wanted nothing more than to help out the community with an easy-to-use tool for creating Role-Playing Games, a genre that we hold dear to our hearts. We made quite a bit of progress and had come so far from when we initially started out. Complex games made simpler for beginners, for the artists who didn't know how to code, or for the advanced users who wanted to learn even more by reading through our code or using our tools. We were not satisfied with what we had created, however. In our eyes, we had failed each and every one of you. The Easy RPG Creator wasn't so easy to use and wasn't as customizable as we had wanted. We were forcing you to use the settings we laid out for you, the tabs that we created. What if you wanted to do more? What if you wanted to do less? We had lost our flexibility.
We betrayed you by missing release dates that we said we would make. Our lives became hectic, and, we eventually stopped posting here altogether. We shunned the community and the tool that we had worked so hard to create. We vanished into the darkness from whence we had came, lurking in the shadows but remaining ever silent. Well, we remain silent no more.
We have not been sitting idly by, twiddling our thumbs, pretending we were never here. Oh no. We have been working to build our dream tool, the way it was meant to be. Quick. Easy. Customizable. Powerful. We have reworked our tools from the ground up and are still hard at work on the Easy RPG Creator. While still quite a long way from being completed, we thought we'd share with you some of the new features we have planned for the Easy RPG Creator V2, complete with a development screen shot, starting with the best stuff first!
New Features:
Gone are the tabs that you have grown used to. They are no more. Instead, the Easy RPG Creator now comes with a brand new Drag n' Drop interface that allows you to create your own tabs, defining only what parameters you want and need. Name your tabs whatever you want, design them how you want. You will even be able to copy tabs from one game to the next straight from within our editor, making things so much more effortless. But, worry not! Easy RPG Creator will also come packed with our classic tabs, revised, should you wish to use those.
After designing your own tabs, it's really time to get to work. You can use the Database Editor to create all the data for your game: The monsters, the items, the quests, the shops... you name it! Whatever tabs you design will be available for you to edit at will.
Enough about the Database, though. Let's talk about the new features for the Kit.
Gone are the complex lists of Custom Blocks. You won't need those anymore! Instead, you will be able to use simple code to get and set your database information from within your game. Generate your player's character, view his or her health, even change their health. Complexity made simple via Stencyl's Code blocks. Access any of the data that you have created without having to deal with a ton of obscure custom blocks. Easy.
Along with all these updates we'll also be removing the adf.ly wall from the new download when it becomes available and make this completely free for everyone, all the time, forever. All we ask is that you enjoy our creation.
