Desulk
I’ve given up on the cross-referencing thing until I’m less busy and the world is less caught up in Other Events. In the meantime…
2d10 went down last weekend. 2d10 was a generic message board type site designed for online RPGs. In this, it didn’t do badly, though the interface didn’t like Mozilla very much, but it sucked in many small yet annoying ways. I never used it, though several of my friends were involved in a game on it, so I got to overhear them discussing which bits worked and didn’t, and over time an idea for a better but similer system came about.
But, as I say, 2d10 went down last weekend, and doesn’t look like coming back any time soon. The GM of the game my friends are in mentioned that if it isn’t back by Monday, he’ll find somewhere else, and at that point my plans kicked into overdrive. From a borrowed laptop somewhere in the depths of Aylesburyian suburbia, Aquarionics Industries is bringing you Point First D4, a quick and painful 2d10 replacement which will get more features (and a better name) as it develops.
It’s being done in – you’ll be suprised at this – PHP with a MySQL backend and because my nice database libraries are all in storage the code is going to be a little dirty and kludgy until I get them back. Currently I have a design document and a lot of ideas, but first we must make basic functionality work, which will be Fun.
Observant readers my also have noticed the brand new addition to my increasingly cluttered right-hand bar in the shape of the return of the “New & Cool” box that has been on AqCom since feb2000, but got lost in the design about a year and a half ago. The data has been migrated, the box renamed, the archive coded, now I just have to add new things.
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lonecat:
Just a thought… Private messages should be able to be attached to games, so bits of roleplay can go on out of view. It would be nice if you could see where they occurred within the context of the game as well, which is one thing I didn’t like on 2d10.
Thoughts:
Just as a thought to a couple of other features 2d10.com had.
Chapters – After a while the page of posts gets a bit big (and slow to load), so the GM could archive off a set of posts into a ‘chapter’ that could be viewed seperately. This was done by selecting which of the current posts was to be the last in the chapter and moving evreything up to that pont. (The general game archive started off by showing you the chapter names). Obviously, chapter names were a user input. Unfortunately the archiving process didn’t take any private messages with it.
Erm, actually, the next thought is something that 2d10 didn’t have. It would be nice to have an easy mechanism to get a copy of all of the posts in a game, or to get posts emailed as well (this would be useful for the GM to keep a copy of everything that’s going on, just in case the server should vanish for no adequately explained reason). All 2d10 had was the option to email yourself a copy of a message when you deleted it.
And another thing 2d10 didn’t have was the ability to set somebody else up with GM-style priveledges for the game (which would be useful to allow GM teams and NPC players)
Oh, and thanks Aq. I owe you a pint.
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Jester (Ref in the above mentioned game)
ccooke:
A counterthought: Make it do mailing list duty, too ;-)
So we can send email to it and get email from. I mean, that’s not a bad way of doing things…