XAGE feature list

We now have a name - XAGE - standing for Xna Adventure Game Engine. I'd played around with a few acronyms but this seemed the most obvious and least offensive to the eyes and ears.

Completed features:

• Point & Click Interface (SCUMM-esque verb construction)
• Input Handling (Xbox controller & mouse)
• Multiple Rooms
• Inventory System
• Global & local characters / objects, all drawn via Y position
• Object scripts
• Character Walking (walkboxes, character scaling)
• Character Talking
• Audio - Sounds, Game Songs
• Skippable Cutscenes

In Progress:

• Menu System (mostly done)
• Load / Save system (fine on PC, not yet working on xbox)
• Audio - Networked songs (fine on PC, needs multithreading to work smoothly on xbox)

Yet to implement:

• Conversation Trees
• Conversation Gestures
• Reaching (high, low, across)
• Room Entry and Exit scripts
• External Cutscenes
• Compression of save files
• Loading of non-compiled assets (for easier PC-only production, i.e. no .xnb files = no VS2008 requirement)
• Full UI scalability (i.e allow any reasonable gamescreen size and resolution)
• User defined Object variables (not sure if this is needed yet)

Once the above has been implemented I'll begin work on my game - I have two ideas floating around, one inspired oddly enough by In The Night Garden. This will help me iron out any glaring bugs and any useability issues as I want XAGE to be as robust as possible before release. As it stands the tool has very little control validation and no circular referencing so needs a bit of work.