Few suggestions (turned into a lot of suggestions)
Turbo123
- This game needs the DM and players to be able to ping the map. I played my first game of D&D last night on this software and we needed pinging, even when in Teamspeak together. Also, this program is really awesome!
- I read somewhere on here that someone already recommended multiple maps on a tab system. I would love to have tabs up top where as DM I can force people to switch between so for instance if they start out in a pub and walk outside and go south down a road... The road cuts off, to my understanding I have to LOAD the map below it so they can continue playing... Then God forbid they want to go back to the pub... It's even more of a load as well. As I said I played for my first time last night and it was the biggest issue with our game.
- Tool Tips!!! This would be such a cool feature, let the DM add tool tips so when players hover over a Table or a door or a window or even a sign it shows a text tool tip that the DM has set. BONUS: Let us add images like logos for our own taverns/inns and build our own assets for that.
- Auto-Save Our server crashed once and it was saved just before... luckily, An auto-save feature for every * minutes would be fantastic.
- NPC routes, I would love to see a feature where the DM can set a route for characters to walk. Make a pub feel a bit more alive, I in no way mean to have fully functioning AI, but if I want an NPC to talk from A to B every * minutes, it could add just that little bit of variable and not make me as DM do it everytime.
- Treasure Chests | Animated chests that can be placed in levels for the party to open and the DM has placed gold/items in them.
- Shops for custom items | Access for a DM to turn an NPC into a shop where party members can purchase items also created by the DM.
- Props that can be picked up. If one of the party members on an adventure sees a torch, he should be able to pick it up and carry it around. Same as a coffee mug or a sword on a wall.
- Music Library/Map Music Playlist: My guys had a blast when we brought in a Teamspeak Bot and played music over it, but it would be cool to have a volume/playlist for the DM to sync the music to everyone for each piece to a campaign/mission.
- Webcam implementation | On the right side by the map it would be cool if we could see small video screens for our webcams.
- VoIP implementation | My guys will likely always use Teamspeak, but... I think a lot of people could use this I am sure.
All and all, so far loving it and it's because of this team that I have started playing D&D after 10 years of wanting to.
edit: I only had like 4 suggestions to start...
Comments
While we will certainly enable streaming of music and provide an ambient sfx library for Skirmish!, unfortunately as of yet we have no plans to provide VoIP or webcam chat as there are a lot of professional and free services which do this quite efficiently. Coding an entire webcam and VoIP system would take a lot of time which we'd rather spent on other aspects of our platform.
However, depending on how the Skirmish! platform develops this topic might be worth a discussion some time after the kickstarter campaign has ended.
As for animations, etc. it is too early to confirm anything yet, but we are currently running tests on making animations and real-time lights a possibility.
Perhaps they could have "States". What I mean is, say you have a background prop thats a pressure plate that blends in with the ground kindof, it has no animation and sits there (State A). But if a token/prop is placed on top of said pressure plate it will animate into a sunken position (State B. From that point forward it will stay sunken into the floor (State C) till the DM deems otherwise.
Its just an idea I felt throwing out there