Introducing… Fighty
I’m always looking for new ways to play games online better. Recently, I got a Google Wave invite and immediately started looking for ways to wave the game. There are a couple of dice roller robots out there (unfortunatley, robots are pretty slow at the moment), a neat card tool, which simulates a deck of playing cards, and a couple other things.
A friend of mine set up a D&D 4E game on Wave, based on Revenge of the Giants, which I was lucky to signup in time to play. This has already been discussed enough by the DM, gamefiend (see previous link) and one of the other players, Wyatt, so I’m not going to add anything there.
I’ve been spending a lot of time filling in one of the gaps that wave doesn’t do well yet, and given the nature D&D 4E, I feel is important. The battlemat.
So, Fighty is born. It’s a gadget for Google Wave, which uses a custom map from Maplib.Net. It’s a bit of a hack, as I’m not the greatest programmer in the world, but it’s just getting to the point where it is useful.
Let me know what you think.
Got a link to your source repository?
Whoops, had the wrong email address there
Not yet… Right now, all the PHP does is pass the maplib ID, all the real work is in the JavaScript. When I get the source in a public repo, i’ll update the page.
Hey, just tried this out – excellent stuff! I’m very impressed. I wrote a dice bot for Wave, but Javascript is beyond my ken, so I was basically waiting for someone to figure this part out so I could latch on to those coattails!
Thank you for this.
@Chris Clouser
Which bot is yours? Glad you like it. It’s still got a lot of work to go, but it’s pretty exciting here.