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Lost and Found Weekend
Mar. 2nd, 2009 08:59 amIn preparation for the Connections conference next week (yikes! that kind of crept up on me), I spent the weekend tussling with some software called VASSAL, a "game engine" that allows people to create online versions of board and card games and play them over the Internet in real time.
http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php
The software was written to permit play of Advanced Squad Leader, a very complicated tactical board wargame, but it's pretty flexible. Unfortunately, I don't think I have the time to create a VASSAL version of Virtualia - I've never even played one of these things online. No time, no time.
But it's amazing to see the lengths that people will go to mimic on a computer the experience of sitting across a table from a real live person to play a paper game (sorry, "manual simulation"). I wonder if I should even bother with this, though.
In other better news, The Lost Box of Books has surfaced! (ref http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/199549.html) It was found as we excavated our way to the bottom of our video holdings - it must have been one of the first boxes moved into the new house, and then buried by everything else. Well, too late to have written a better article, but perhaps it would have turned out pretty much the same anyway.
I also spent some time on Saturday baking -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shanmonster's Spicy Devil's Food Cake, which was really good, and an almond-flavoured Dutch butter cake - which recipe I got from a co-op student at work. Also really good, like shortbread but more chewy.
http://www.vassalengine.org/community/index.php
The software was written to permit play of Advanced Squad Leader, a very complicated tactical board wargame, but it's pretty flexible. Unfortunately, I don't think I have the time to create a VASSAL version of Virtualia - I've never even played one of these things online. No time, no time.
But it's amazing to see the lengths that people will go to mimic on a computer the experience of sitting across a table from a real live person to play a paper game (sorry, "manual simulation"). I wonder if I should even bother with this, though.
In other better news, The Lost Box of Books has surfaced! (ref http://ltmurnau.livejournal.com/199549.html) It was found as we excavated our way to the bottom of our video holdings - it must have been one of the first boxes moved into the new house, and then buried by everything else. Well, too late to have written a better article, but perhaps it would have turned out pretty much the same anyway.
I also spent some time on Saturday baking -
shanmonster's Spicy Devil's Food Cake, which was really good, and an almond-flavoured Dutch butter cake - which recipe I got from a co-op student at work. Also really good, like shortbread but more chewy.
