My Browser based table-top platform

[Pdquinn]

Hi all, I posted this in rpgnet as well so I am going to cut and past to save time. If this is the wrong forum please feel free to let me know or move it yourself.

Hi all!

My name is Patrick and I am a 27 year old in Tucson, Az. I live with my wife, three cats and our rescue rabbits. We run a non-for profit Rabbit Rescue and Rehabilitation shelter. I also enjoy gaming in all forms. Big Mudder, Tabletopper and Larper. I joined this forum to talk about roleplaying games, help others with their projects and get help for mine.

My project is this.

The creation of a dynamic browser based Tabletop roleplaying software. You log on and in Java or flash engage in real time tabletop roleplaying. Features I am hoping to include are as follows
*Real Time Map/Avatar/Dice Rolling system (Using the previously said Java or Flash)

*Support for all the majors titles and a few handpicked lesser known ones

*file depository (virus scanned and safe) for chargen software, dice rollers, npc generators and map generators, a simple forum

*Live chat

*Skype support (perhaps)

Key things to note, We will not provide the rule sets for systems unless it is public domain. We will not charge for membership but will have a donation system in place and we will honor authors wishes to have any content removed.

If anyone is interested in assisting this project please send me a message or reply here.

I am looking for coders and web designers who are fluent in php.

Also, anyone with a mastery of any major system and authors who would like their systems included are welcomed to help.

On closing a friend once said to me "Any ambitious project, even if failing in the end is worth trying for. Simply because the giving and receiving of ideas and knowledge is a pure thing and betters a person."

I think there is something to that statement.

Thank you

[Eero Tuovinen]

Welcome to the Forge, Patrick. I for one will be pleased to see more competition in the virtual tabletop scene - a browser-based solution seems like a good idea in that regard.

Do keep us posted on your progress, and perhaps call for publisher cooperation when you have a framework on place and can offer clear terms - what you'd need from a publisher to include their game, who'd do the work and so on and so forth. I could imagine that people with games well-suited to virtual tabletops might be interested.

[Vulpinoid]

I definitely wouldn't say that I'm fluent enough in PHP to code something like this from scratch...but I could modify existing coding to encompass new areas...and I'd be more than willing to make those modifications in order to get my own game into the product mix.

I'm currently working on a PHP/Sql driven game along the lines of a massive scale version of "Diplomacy" using real world integration through Google Maps, this online game is intended to spit out local adventures for gaming groups to undertake, which are then submitted back into the system to update the rest of the world online.

So I can certainly se the validity of the concept you're working on.

Good Luck.

V 

[Tomas HVM]

Hi Patric! I find your way of thinking, and your presentation of this project, quite enticing.

Please notify me if you get to the point where a framework is in place, and I will consider working with you in placing my game Fabula within it. Fabula is a traditional fantasy-rpg published in Norway in 1999. I am always on the lookout for highways to new players.

[Bossy]

My project is this.

The creation of a dynamic browser based Tabletop roleplaying software. You log on and in Java or flash engage in real time tabletop roleplaying. Features I am hoping to include are as follows
*Real Time Map/Avatar/Dice Rolling system (Using the previously said Java or Flash)

Hi Patrick,

I've designed a dice-rolling system in Java. It is quite powerful in terms of expressivity: you can roll a very wide span of rolling schemes. I've deposited it on SourceForge under the unix name "jdice" but I haven't been able to pull some time to make it live further. I'll be happy to help if you consider reusing code or ideas for your platform (as long as it remains open source). There's also a name generator but it needs to be polished a bit more... PM in any way you're interested.

*Support for all the majors titles and a few handpicked lesser known ones

Imho, your major efforts must go into designing a good plugin system or API that makes easy the development of the support for another RPG system. This will ensure the usefulness of the platform for the most people in the long term.