Genre / game possibility questions

Hello Visionaire Studio / community!

• Is it possible to press a button on screen or on the keyboard and open up an inventory, instead of having it always on screen?
  
• Can you animate the menus / inventory to slide in and out of screen? 
• Can you layer / visually equip characters? (say you picked up a Hat, can you open Inventory and click on it, and equip it visually?)
• Can you create a crafting menu?
• Can you organize your inventory by Type of object somehow? (like tabs, or a Sort feature?)
• Is it possible to create a Shop to buy items from? Is it possible to randomize the items being sold?
• Are there timers / possible to create a day/calendar system? (something like Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley, where there's a calendar and holidays/events happen on particular days)
• Are there camera zooms and layers? Like say I open the inventory, and it opens to one side of the screen, and the camera zooms into the character on the opposite side.
• If there are layers, is layer parallaxing possible?
• Can characters have stats?

Lets see...
Yes you can show Inventory by a button or key (easy)
Yes you can slide in inventory, with effects (bit more complicated but there is tutorials/examples)
Equpping.. yes there is a few ways, there is character Costumes
There's a user on Discord doing a shop and crafting, tabs etc so it can be done, I have no idea how easy it would be. he's also equipping characters
VS has shaders so you could do a day and night cycle that way, easier would be changing backgrounds which a few users have done and looks great
Zooming in; I'm not entirely sure.
layer parallax; yep 
yes you can gave stats

up until the crafting there is some great tutorials in the Wiki, also layers, parallax and stats.
The crafting side it's expanding on how the inventory and gui's work, I don't think it would be hard, the good news there is people doing it, it would be worth joining the Discord server, everyone is very helpful and friendly

Most of the basics can be done with the Visionaire's Action Parts scripting, which is vey easy to learn, you can do an entire point and click game or a Myst style game without using the more advanced stuff

I think more or less everything you asked about can be done. Certain things will only be possible via scripting, or asking on the Discord community if any of the members will be willing to create an action part plugin that can do said thing, so you don't have to learn how to code it yourself.

That said, I highly recommend the basics of scripting (or the visual scripting system) as it will provide you with a lot more freedom than what the premade action parts will allow you to do.

In regard to stats & dates & days & so on... they are all just numbers & strings & boolean values & I believe all game engines will allow you to create values/variables, etc. that you can store said data in.

I would also like to point out that Visionaire Studio, is no longer just a game engine for creating point & click adventure games with. Each update brings new features that make it possible to create games belonging to other game genres; however, the primary focus of VS is still point & click adventure games, it's just that now it's a wee bit more flexible in what's possible with it.