Don’t Rest Your Head Exhaustion Powers in “Wanted”

January 27, 2009

I recently had 14 hours to kill on a flight to Seoul, and I watched “Wanted”. I really enjoyed it. I don’t even know if I think it was “good” or not, from an objective standpoint. What I was interested in was the similarity between the crazy stuff I saw in the trailers and “exhaustion powers” I was reading about in the game “Don’t Rest Your Head”. In that respect, the movie didn’t disappoint. Read more

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Virtual Tabletop Maps: Differences of Scale

January 11, 2009

As a follow-up to a conversation in the forum about “large maps”, I’ve put together a list of different scales at which maps are drawn, partly as a way to drive conversation about the kinds of maps people want to use on a virtual tabletop, and partly just because it got kind of fun looking at examples. Read more

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Adding Skill Points to EpicTable’s Messaging

January 2, 2009

I’m always a little reluctant to post about work that I can’t show you, but it’s about time for a development status update.

Over the holidays, I’ve been bolstering the messaging layer for EpicTable—that is, the layer responsible for communication between participants in a game. It’s what carries the chat messages, images, map updates, dice rolls, etc. While the messaging layer has been in place and working for awhile, there’s “sunny day working” and there’s “working despite obstacles”.

If you think of EpicTable as a character, it’s leveling up and taking a few additional points in the Messaging skill, so that when it’s faced with a couple -2 or -4 penalties, it can still make the roll. Read more

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