2. i dont knwo, if you can make it easyer with ruby. you can put the position of the text window on every position on the screen, and either manipulate the width and heigth of the text window. (ruby)

4. you've battle animations, don't you? I dont understand your problem...

6. uhm... you mean events, which react on a switch? and your game becomes slower??? you can try to put an 0.0 second wait event before the event, which makes the spikes come up from the floor, but i dont knwo, if that works^^

excuse my bad english^^