A Stencyl Wishlist

Hey everyone!

With Christmas right around the corner, I decided to make this list of stuff I’d love to see come to Stencyl. I’m putting it under chit chat because most of the stuff here is either a huge feature or an outlandish idea.

Never Going to Happen List:
1. Ability to make 3D games: this would be a super cool feature to have and would probably make Stencyl one of the first non coding engines to support 3D (maybe? Idk).

It’s a Possibility:
1. LAN connections: Right now Stencyl isn’t the best engine for multiplayer oriented games and I think this would be a step towards adding more compatibility.
2. Split screen support/multiple cameras: I think this would be another great feature for creating more multiplayer oriented games.
3. Collaboration Features: I’m pretty sure I remembered reading that the thing that drove the Hollow Knight devs away from using Stencyl was the lack of collaboration features. I think I feature like this could possibly attract more indie groups.

This Would be Really Nice:
1. A less clunky background system: I feel as of right now that using backgrounds can be a nightmare, especially if you have a scene that’s more than one screen tall. I think it would be really helpful to be able to set the starting position of backgrounds.

Are there anythings you’d like to see in Stencyl?

3D is a popular request, but I get the feeling its difficulty is often underestimated. Not only the engine would need to be updated, but also the toolset--scene designer, assets managers--pretty much everything except the visual programming language blocks. Stencyl would be starting over from Scratch.

I wouldn't say never gonna happen. mdotedot got pretty far with Away3D. As OpenFL matures, more new features will be practical--either as part of base Stencyl or as third party extensions.

Some sort of camera zoom. Even if just a zoom out from the original size - so that pixelation wasn't a problem. Would need all the associated blocks around touch, position, collisions etc. to still work with whatever camera FOV was set to.

Harder, but would love it, camera rotate block.

Some sort of camera zoom. Even if just a zoom out from the original size - so that pixelation wasn't a problem. Would need all the associated blocks around touch, position, collisions etc. to still work with whatever camera FOV was set to.

Harder, but would love it, camera rotate block.

+1 Should add it to the issue tracker.

Some sort of camera zoom. Even if just a zoom out from the original size - so that pixelation wasn't a problem. Would need all the associated blocks around touch, position, collisions etc. to still work with whatever camera FOV was set to.

Harder, but would love it, camera rotate block.

Yeah a simple zoom in/out would be great.

You might wanna check this out http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,50736.0.html

http://community.stencyl.com/index.php/topic,57123.0.html
Man!  Nobody gives this a shoutout haha... does that old one in the link above work?  Mine was close to finished... may need some help from the big guys here to fix a few bugs