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10 août 2016

J'espère que Dan poursuivra le développement de ceci, ça a l'air vraiment très prometteur, intéressant et polyvalent.


J'espère que Dan poursuivra le développement de ceci, ça a l'air vraiment très prometteur, intéressant et polyvalent. Mais peut-être a-t-il besoin qu'on lui dise que cela serait vraiment chouette, d'encouragements ?

Originally shared by Dan Maruschak

I've made some progress on the coding project I've been working on, which is a Hangouts extension that uses GoogleDocs spreadsheets as the basis for a “lower third” with RPG-friendly functionality. The basic gist is that you'd create a sheet in GoogleDocs and would use the “note” feature in some cells to tag them with markup messages to get features like “represent this number with an array of checkboxes” or “display this number as a pile of tokens”. Then in Hangouts you'd be able to interact with those elements in the “control pane” that's over the right and it would also render them as an overlay onto the video. In the picture I'm working with a sheet I made for testing purposes, something that has a lot of functionality you might use in a Fate game: checkable stress boxes and a pile of chips for Fate points. Clicking the checkboxes or hitting the increment/decrement buttons on the Fate point section updates both the video display and the GoogleDoc it loaded from, so you could use it for persistent state stuff like character sheets.

I've got the basic functionality working in my proof-of-concept app, although I still foresee some challenges, such as whether users will have enough screen real estate to make it workable (the control pane is very narrow, and you don't have a ton of resolution to work with in the video overlay), or whether GoogleDocs provides enough control to make things sufficiently pretty. My longer term idea would be to integrate this together with the dice-roller functionality from my Dice in the Vineyard app to be a more full-featured RPG tool. (My working title is “RPG HUD” since it's trying to make it easier to keep the attention on the video displays rather than on a heavy virtual tabletop).

Let me know if you think this is something that would be useful for you, or if you have questions or suggestions. I think this would be a worthwhile thing, but I have a hard time gauging whether other people would be interested.

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