Re: Software Projects
From: Jon Davis <davisje@n...>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 19:38:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Software Projects
Dominic Mooney wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at 11:33 Europe/London, Jon Davis wrote:
>
> > One of the Power Projection developers sent me a PDF file draft set
of
> > rules for me to look over a few months ago. PP has its own unique
> > feel,
> > but one of the objectives of FTJava was to permit the use of new
> > weapons, game mechanics, etc. to handle a variety of variant gaming
> > systems. A PP "plugin" is feasible, but non-trivial.
>
> That would be me. From a BITS perspective, we're also interested in
> seeing FTJava support PP, but we've not really got much time at the
> moment (for some reason people keep on asking us to finish the capital
> ship rules ;-) soon..).
I wonder why that may be. :-) PP is not a high priority on my list
for FTJava either. I need to accomplish other tasks before moving
in that direction.
> > One way for you to help would be in the area of Traveller ship GIFs
> > or PNGs.
>
> Jon - would you be after specific ships (individual artwork) or
generic
> counters for classes (eg DDs etc)?
Either. Generic counters can be used for either the standard game
or a variant.
Jon