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| ===== News ===== | ===== News ===== | ||
| - | **(September 24. 2012)** Wow, has been a long time. I'm working again on this project, some of the generic plugins work now, a very, very early pre-alpha can be downloaded from [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/jgmtool/files/|Sourceforge]]. | + | **(Oct. 1. 2012)** Released pre-alpha 0.05. |
| - | **(September 23. 2010)** It's been a while since I updated the first version of the GMTool, mainly because working as a java coder for money took a away a little bit of enthusiasm for my private coding projects, sorry. Anyway, after looking at the old code again, I decided to code a new version of the GMTool from scratch. The old version had some nice features, but a more consequent plugin approch will, imho, improve the tool greatly. So in the next version almost everything will be designed as a plugin and the user will be able to define his (or her) workspace by choosing which plugins to use (also allowing other developers to create their own plugins more easily). The project now has a [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgmtool/|SourceForge page]], simply because they offer a free SVN repository, which is usefull as I intended to share the sourcecode anyway and wanted to access the code from other places without having to carry it around on an USB stick :). Stay tuned. | + | **(Sept. 30. 2012)** Still working on build 0.05, which will support saving and loading scenarios from and to .zip files, which allows the gm to prepare a scenario and then export it to a .zip file, which he then can copy onto his laptop, for example. Additionally, error handling/logging will be enhanced, so that the user has at least a chance to see what went wrong. |
| ===== General Information ===== | ===== General Information ===== | ||
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| - | See [[GMToolHowTo]] for better instructions. | ||
| The "Gamemaster Tool" (GMTool) is a simple tool, written in Java, to aid gamemasters in running their gaming sessions by managing their notes, handouts, player and non-player character, etc. It was specifically designed to work on a small notebook (like the EEE PC, which is small enough not to use up all space on the gaming table), but will work on most computers/notebooks. | The "Gamemaster Tool" (GMTool) is a simple tool, written in Java, to aid gamemasters in running their gaming sessions by managing their notes, handouts, player and non-player character, etc. It was specifically designed to work on a small notebook (like the EEE PC, which is small enough not to use up all space on the gaming table), but will work on most computers/notebooks. | ||
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| + | Of course, there are already many tools out there, dice rollers for almost any system, combat trackers for many of them, etc. The basic idea here is not to provide another tool specifically for one system, but a platform in which different plugins can be integrated (including dice rollers and combat trackers) to form a all-in-one tool for gamemastering an rpg session. | ||
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| + | See [[GMToolHowTo]] for a usage manual or [[GMToolCoding]] for a coding manual. | ||
| ===== Features ===== | ===== Features ===== | ||
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| ===== Download ===== | ===== Download ===== | ||
| - | * no download for the new, improved version yet, sorry | + | * The current version can be downloaded from [[https://sourceforge.net/projects/jgmtool/files/|Sourceforge]] |
| - | * [[http://www.irian.de/files/GMTool.zip|OLD, deprecated Version 0.16]] | + | * [[http://www.irian.de/files/GMTool.zip|OLD, deprecated Version 0.16]] (completely different tool, but if you want...) |
| ===== Links ===== | ===== Links ===== | ||
| - | * [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgmtool/|SourceForge page]] (Sourcecode available, but no release yet) | + | * [[http://sourceforge.net/projects/jgmtool/|SourceForge page]] (Sourcecode available via SVN) |
| ===== Comments ===== | ===== Comments ===== | ||
| - | * Leave a comment at the [[Comments]] page (everyone can write there without having to log in). | + | * (Had to delete the comments page, as spammers seem to think of it as a free link farm ) |
| - | * Send an [[mail@irian.de|E-Mail]]! | + | * Send an [[mail@irian.de|E-Mail]] |
| * View the [[Impressum]] | * View the [[Impressum]] | ||
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