Graham Walmsley (writer of Play Unsafe) is creating an online GUMSHOE character generator which works with all of our GUMSHOE games. It will be a commercial product, although we haven't decided how to release it. It will generate PDF character sheets, and you'll be able to optionally share your characters with other GMs. It may also do other GUMSHOE GM aid-related things.It works decently well already.
What features would you like to see?
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Peter Olsson, who does much of the programming work for ProFantasy has been working on his own Swedish electrical application, and in the course of that developed some user interactivity features which could in theory be incorporated into CC3. Here is a screen shot of what a circle command might look like.
Note that the command prompt is present at the drawing cursor. The interactive window reacts to key strokes, and it could display properties information (for example for a drawing tool). If the cursor moves over it, it disappears. Peter has also worked on some interactive right click features which are object sensitive, which we might be able to incorporate into CD3, given the development time.
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ProFantasy is having a pre-Christmas development frenzy. Peter Olsson is with me from Sweden working hard on the updated House Settings dialog for City Designer 3. To match the new raster art, he's add the option to add symbols to roofs in house settings. Pictures tomorrow. We'll get a couple of other neat features added to CD3 before release, too.
Joe Slayton has been working on light filters for CC3. We are hoping to get fog of war working, although I can't guarantee it. The difficulty is to do this efficiently without introducing 3D. We want shadows to be able to be infinite, or have a fixed length, without having to worry about the height of entities.
Mike Riddle has made some nice additions to CC3, adding an Apply button to the print dialog, and changing the status indicator colours to a clickable colour. He's also fixed the bug where png symbols shifted slightly add cardinal angles, and a nasty group-related bug.
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We all use free software utilities, whether to protect our computers or manage files. Here are a few that I use:
Rename - lets you do mass renaming of files. I found this very useful for renaming batches of PNG files for import into CC3.
MultiSub lets you find and replace within many files of any type. I find it useful for updating websites.
AsteriskKey lets you uncover passwords you've forgotten hidden under asterisks. I use it to let other people know ftp and email passwords.
SpamBayes is a spam blocker which plugs into Outlook. It learns as it goes.
What do you use?
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