Re: (TFT) Melee Arena discussion

[Cris Fuhrman <fuhrmanator@gmail.com>]

Hi Geof,

I worked on Vassal and did the Death Test extension for it with the Melee
module. Vassal is great as a metaphor of the distributed table-top.

But it would be a lot of customized Java programming in a framework that's
not so easy to work with to extend Vassal to work so that all the rules of
Melee could be handled. The stuff like movement (with engagement), attack
rules, damage, etc. are all mostly abstracted out of Vassal (at least in
the version I worked with 2-3 years ago).

Cris

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Geof Gibson <geofgibson@mac.com> wrote:

> I've been following yesterday's discussion of a live online Melee Arena.
> I say this not to be critical as I've been writing software of my own to
> assist in playing, but, I have a question.
> There's already a cross platform compatible, online playable Melee/Wizard
> module for Vassal.  They've got servers running already so more computers
> aren't required to start playing now.  Isn't Melee Arena re-inventing the
> wheel?
> Vassal is also fairly extensible and a great deal of functionality can be
> added with extensions.
> Has anyone working on the project looked into building on this existing
> foundation?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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