Re:Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games
by aidenn0 on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @08:59PM
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This seems to have a strong "Card Game" bias, with a slightly less strong "LCG/CCG" bias. Are there any game models for it for games that aren't primarily card based?
Re:Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games
by konpikwastaken on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:42PM
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There appear to be some but you are correct that it has a strong "card game" bias as it was originally meant to play Magic. I'm not aware of any, no.
Interesting history - it started out from a VB6 application (specifically for playing Magic the Gathering) maintained by a single guy, he then handed dev off and the entire application was rewritten as a C# WPF application and was in hot competition with Magic Workstation directly for some time [2], which ultimately IMO made it a much better product. I believe I actually still have the original VB6 source on an old HDD somewhere... If I find it, wondering how to best archive it, or would anyone even care?
Anyway, OCTGN is currently a generic "tabletop game" program that allows for new games to be defined via the documented game format [3] and even supports python scripting.
[1]: https://github.com/octgn/OCTGN [2]: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/other-... [3]: https://github.com/octgn/OCTGN/wiki#create-games-on-octgn