Is there a way to let the player type in his name and then have that name written on his characters back in the game? Either some sort of skin generation within the game or else some sort of sprite that follows the player?

Like Sierras SWAT 3 has names on backs if you've played that.

You could make it with a text-panel, like this:

code:

---

  
text name_of_the_player {
...
}

---

in game you make the string of this text become the name of the player.

And then "hang" the text on the player, use vec_to_screen (vector, view); !

Cool Thanks