We want to make the hitboxes match the sprites as much as possible.

Very precise hitboxes and multiple hitboxes per character: Same goes for engines that are built for turn-based combat. If the engine is a JRPG engine, it just flat-out will not work. The basic principle is similar to the above games, but with larger movesets for the player. Our combat is supposed to be real-time, complex and tactical.

And we're picturing a couple late '90s 16-bit games made by Square Enix. We have a pretty good idea how we want the game to look. Support for *entirely* sprite-based graphics, specifically 16-bit: Support for DoT and other status effects, but on a numeric basis. Support for a large number of custom stats per character. Very precise hitboxes and multiple hitboxes per character. Support for *entirely* sprite-based graphics, specifically 16-bit. (I might pick up some to make it easier on the guys that are, but that's not why I'm there.) I'm doing sprites (we all are), music (one other guy is as well, but this is primarily my job) and level design (working directly with one other team member). Also I should mention that I'm not the one doing the programming. There's a list of things we're trying to do with it that are fairly complex, and all of us are normally modders instead of actual devs, so while we do have a lot of experience modding and at least two of us (myself included) are pretty good at it, making an actual game is new to us and something fairly easy to use would be preferred. I'm looking for an engine for a 2d action RPG, a hobby project me and some friends are working on.

Unreal engine 4 turn based rpg