Projects…
It’s that time again: time for me to invest serious amounts of time upgrading and tweaking my website. Chances are good that no one (other than myself) will really care, but I suppose it’s a possibility. The current batch of projects:
- Find out why the gallery isn’t working anymore.
- Update the gallery software to v2
- Update the blog software
- Add a wiki for RPG/Campaign information
- Build a media-library application, that will hopefully let me build and share my burgeoning movie collection (and maybe books, music, and other interesting tidbits)
- Fix the sidebar links to incorporate the latest links from del.icio.us
- Javascript-based “combat calculators” for my RPG group
This is all subject, of course, to the demands of free-time and the whimsy of my attention span. If anyone has any other suggestions on what to add or what to work on first, I’m always looking for new ideas.
May 12th, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Mmm…combat calculators…Gonna set it up so your GMness puts in ACs, alignments, types, and such, which we don’t see, and then we select our combat options that apply and click “FIRE!”? Also, you could configure something on your side that lets you preload some things that will be revealed to individuals and simply select and send them to individuals at the appropriate time. Mayhap a more elaborate encounter manager which includes the combat calculator?
May 15th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Unfortunately, that level of interactivity is slightly beyond my current toolset. If I really want to get into that sort of thing, I should work on a Java-based client-server system. The Javascript solution would be networkless, thus I’d have to give you AC/Alignment/Type, and have the calculator handle the details from there.
I won’t deny that a full-blown encounter manager that would handle all the details you’ve mentioned hasn’t crossed my mind more than once in the past year or two. However, it is probably a bit out of reach as far as my own time investment is concerned. Maybe if I brush up on my Java, and find some easy-to-use libraries to handle the background stuff (user interface, networking, communication), I’ll get around to building something along those lines.