I'm going to be starting a new roleplaying game up in the near-ish future, and I'd like to try and develop some kind of dice-roller to speed up the game, and take away a little bit of the slow dice-rolling that can go on.
RandomRolly isn't quite up to the job - we're playing face-to-face round a table, rather than on Wave, so it's going to have to be a project from scratch.
Ideally, I'd like it to be accessible over web-enabled phones, so that players can use it on them - if they want. Which means it's got to be pretty simplistic, and also universal.
Currently I'm leaning towards a simple web page to start with, probably powered with JavaScript. After that I might aim for a Java application (and then an applet) that I could host somewhere. If all of those work and I'm still feeling ambitious, I might even end up trying to create a full-on Android app (though that would mainly be to see if I could!).
Thoughts:
- I'd like this to be both flexible and expandable, so I'm going to try and really use the object orientation lessons that were drummed into us.
- I'd also like it to be quite user-friendly, so there'll be lessons from the HCI side of things showing up here as well.
Plans:
- First of all there'll be a few screenshots for the interface going up.
- Then, we start planning the data types and overall structure of the app.
More news as it comes...
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