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We currently have no plans to make hyperPad 3D.

The problem is like @RobinsonX says, making 3D games is more difficult. A lot of users don't consider the extra difficulty that comes with creating 3D games.
Creating 3D models, animations, etc. Is just more challenging and resource intensive than 2D sprites. With 2D games anyone can do it, you don't need any special tools. AND, getting 2D art online is much easier since there is a pretty standard graphic format. With 3D content there is no standard, so you're going to have a hard time finding assets that work with out more specialized tools.

Unless we change it completely like some of the platforms you mention, where you are limited to what you create. In those platforms you're essentially working with their templates and changing some basic settings around. You don't have the full creative freedom that hyperPad provides.

July 7th we will be doing a livestream with a teacher, Steve Iliano, who will be training teachers on how to teach kids how to use hyperPad. Maybe you would be interested in joining? I will be posting more information to sign up for it this week !

We don't have classes. But every Thursday we have a live stream which teaches how to use hyperPad in an on going series of making a game.
It's streamed on Twitch, youtube and facebook. You can also ask questions during the stream.

So while not a structured class, its pretty close!

@RobinsonX this is wild good job

@SplitMindGaming yes I agree, sprite lamp support is what we'd like to add.

@Shady91 said in Im still patiently waiting:

Lighting sounds really interesting but, I'm wondering how casting shadows would work in a 2D environment.
eg. in a side view project, if I point a directional light source at the right side of a character sprite, on which plane would the shadow be cast?
I can imagine lighting the sprite itself by providing an additional normal map or bump map. That's basically faking depth.
Like I don't think there's such a thing as "real lighting" especially in 2D.
I think they're all just tricks to make things look good while keeping a good performance. I don't think there can be physically accurate lighting in 2D, can there?

Pretty much. A lot of it is "faked" to create atmosphere.
Generating normal maps was something we were planning for version 2 of the lighting system.

@KingOfStone In which way isn't it working?
The concepts in the video may require some minor tweaks but the idea is still functional.

No updates yet. Sorry.
Hub changes are coming close though, so thats 1 thing coming to completion before we focus back on lighting!

@SplitMindGaming haha thank you.

I also forgot we do have a feature that while not search, it does help find behaviours.

If you share values between behaviours, you can press and hold the behaviour inside the input field and it will jump to it.

I agree, this is definitely a needed feature for larger projects!