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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Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
RandomRolly update
RandomRolly is still going strong: I dusted him off today to have a quick fiddle around with some of the settings.
In particular, I'm looking at the DocumentChangedEvent settings, and how to filter them so that they're only fired when a user actually completes one of the dice commands.
In particular, I'm looking at the DocumentChangedEvent settings, and how to filter them so that they're only fired when a user actually completes one of the dice commands.
Sunday, 30 May 2010
Kicking off
Yet another development blog! What is it that makes this one different to any other coding blog out there?
Not much.
Apart from the fact that I'm still very much learning how all this stuff works.
My current big projects are:
- Work Schedule: a variant on the classical "Worker Allocation Problem" and a genetic algorithm to solve it.
- RandomRolly: a dice-rolling robot for Google Wave
There'll be more to come, I'm sure. Like learning perl, like all good little coders should!
Not much.
Apart from the fact that I'm still very much learning how all this stuff works.
My current big projects are:
- Work Schedule: a variant on the classical "Worker Allocation Problem" and a genetic algorithm to solve it.
- RandomRolly: a dice-rolling robot for Google Wave
There'll be more to come, I'm sure. Like learning perl, like all good little coders should!
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