Ongoing Projects

[TheElf]

We have a few projects you can help with, if you are interested. First, we have a new game management tool planned to replace our old dicebot projects, most of the old functionality will kept but we will need some help with testing and filling our databases. As you know, even the old bot had more than just dice: It had a basic background generator, some FAQ system, a bartender system with a few parameters, and so on. Our new version will have more, with map support for irc games, player registration system, character storage system, and a few more suprises are planned, currently it has some of the core functions done, and the rest is under development. What you can do with it? First, you can request a beta version you can test. Secound you can share map files and so on with the rest of us. Help to document things on the forums and there are other ideas, you will see some more details about it. This bot is written in Delphi.

As you perhaps heard we will have a new bot in development to replace eggdrops for most of the network with a more reliable bot. Our coder for this is bituman, and he probably would like some help with module development and so on. The bot will run both under linux (gentoo) and windows, and is written in C++. Some beta test version will be online soon. The bot will work with unrealircd only and will be a pseudo service. Features in addition to ones you already expect from our current bots will be numerous, but for example it will notify about new articles on the page once an hour, it will have some player and GM registry, name generator and much more. To request features post your ideas on the forums.

With this bot we also plan to give a tool for our GMs to have a web site for their games, but since it is in planning stage it would be great to have some feature requests for this project. Probably this would work for most of our games we have online. But as you can expect it will be linked with the other two projects planned. And of course there are more so it is wise to ask our staff about the plans and projects.

[bituman]

Yupp as TheElf mentioned its an ongoing project and now that i found all the info i needed on some necessary protocols its going quite fast. The bot will be cross compileable between win and linux machines, has good threading support, sql access. What i am really waiting for are:
1: feature requests
2: coders who have some spare time to help.. since we want this bot able to handle modules, we want an intelligent, usable module system/API, we should discuss this first.
thats all for tonight

[KnightCat]

Unfortunately I'm not much of a coder. I'd love to be helpful. If there is anything I can do to help out let me know.

[TheElf]

You can help a lot with my programs, etc Say filling database files, etc

[KnightCat]

OK, If that's what is needed.

[TheElf]

Have some projects I started for our people, and when the people requested them got the first beta of the code and said they should try it feed it some data, etc. to see where to go next all project seen inactivity problem. Hope they can made into a working project now.