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- From: hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Mike Hackett)
- Subject: Re: CAD...CAM....CAR?
- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:59:26 GMT
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- In article <BzvI25.JvL@acsu.buffalo.edu> v101q4ct@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Brendon M McNamara) writes:
- >- character generators
- >- character managers
- >- object databases
- >- object creation tools
- >- spell databases
- >- monster databases
- >- monster managers
- >- scenario editors
- >- graphical battle interface (GBI)
- >
- >I'd like to see them all come to think of it...what do you think?
-
- All of the above and more will be included in my Game Master's assistant
- program (no official title - working name is Fates) that I have been
- developing in my head for many years, and I've finally actually started
- working on it for real. It will be GUI based, and very easy to use, but
- very powerful (don't they all *say* that). I am developing it on the
- Apple IIgs and will be porting it to at least the Mac and to Windows.
- I expect that several other versions would come soon after if it is
- successful. Unfortunately, I've had to pretty much put it on hold until
- May when I'm finished university and can take up software development
- full time.
-
- OK, so all I've told you is that I am working on some supposedly great
- program which is entirely vapourware at this point. Yes, that's true.
- But the point of my post is to let you know that, yes, someone has been
- thinking about such a project, and very carefully at that. Also, I
- too would like to hear what everyone would like to see in a program
- like this. I know pretty much what I wwant out of it, but I may have
- forgotten something or not given something enough thought. I don't have
- time right now to go into everything I have planned for the program,
- but I will be watching this thread to see what comes of it. Let's
- hear from you all.
-
- Thanks for listening.
-
-
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- Mike Hackett | "She wouldn't make love,
- <hackett@gaul.csd.uwo.ca> | but she could make good sandwich"
- Honors Computer Science IV | -Ian Anderson, "Budapest"
- University of Western Ontario | - _Crest of a Knave_
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