I don't think so, such small platform is made to have a ground where to stay rather than one where to walk. And in a 4 vs 4 battle, you'd quickly be stuck.

EDIT : on the other hand, it would be cool to have attacks with different ranges : for example, to hit with classic swords or knifes you'll have to be on an adjacent cube, to cast a spell it can depend on the spell, you can throw objects depending on your force etc. For sure it would bring some more elements of gameplay, but I'm not sure it would be very practical.

That does sound rather cool, matrefeytontias! If I have time later, I was thinking about how some battle animations might work. I don't think it would at all be difficult to make a lightning bolt come from the sky and hit a square or to launch a fireball in an arc and have it pummel a square.

Then what would be the point of having several guys in a team ? Real-time is for games with a single character. In turn-based you can have many - and we already discussed it and went for turn-based (which is in fact harder to code due to AI, skills database etc).

Plus, AI will be insanely difficult, and likely very glitchy. Imagine coding pathfinding X.x

But writing enemies' AIs will surely be a PITA (which skill use when, on who etc).

That can be alleviated some by having different selectable styles, IE set an AI to healing, attacking, supporting etc. I do still agree with you though, and even a smart AI isn't as good as something you can control yourself.

Yeah, and if we have the monster AI created, we can give the user the option of setting some players to AI. This way new players who don't know what they are doing don't get destroyed early on.

You mean applying monsters' decisiveness to guys of your team ? That effectively can be a good idea for total newbies.

Yes, precisely It shouldn't be that difficult if we already have the AI made.

Well, IMO I'd probably design the two separately if we chose to allow AI controlled players. Code could possibly be shared between routines, but I'm thinking it would be too much branching if they used the same routines. I could be wrong though.