KKTechGameMaster (Projects - Role-Playing Aid)
KKTechGameMaster
Last Version: 2.0.2
KKTechGameMaster is a rtf word editor for role-playing aid, written in Visual Basic 6, to help Game Masters in the fulfillment of new adventures. The word editor manages .rtf files and has all the most important features needed to edit and format the documents.
The editor has a special toolbar in which a subsystem of fonts is categorized in different combo boxes. The combo boxes are populated by external conf files that can be edited manually.
All the fonts used to build the subsystems of categorized fonts are not distributed with the project and must be downloaded as written in the Release Notes.
The editor has two random name generators to help the Game Master to choose new characters' and geographical names. The random name generators allow to pronunce, only in english language, the name choosed from the list randomly generated, by a Microsoft Agent Character (Merlin).
The project is multilanguage: all the labels, menus and messages of the application may translated in different languages producing the configuration file with the appropriate translations.
The help file and the installer are in english language only.
The release 2.0.2 introduces the new features:
- added the control to check if all the conf files exist
- modified the message management system with the standard MsgBox function. The custom form frmMsg will be never used.
- added the controls page/print setup
- added open Word document
- standardized the subroutine Open
- added the Web Browser with the most important base features of a internet browser:
- navigation's features
- print's features
- the base features to manage Favorites in a directory under the application's path:
- create a new Favorites' bookmark
- create a new Favorites' folder
- open a URL from a Favorites' bookmark
The features from previous releases are listed below:
- Word Editor, including:
- word editing functions in RTF format
- list of values of pre-defined fonts' families; the list of values are external text files
- list of values of pre-defined fonts' dimensions and font colors; the list of values are external text files
- Tools, including:
- Standard Random Name Generator, with a text-to-speech character agent
- Random Name Generator based on pre-defined names' lists, with a text-to-speech character agent
- Pdf Documents browsing, Acrobat Reader is needed
- Multilanguage features with external configuration files with the translation of all the labels, menus and messages of the application.
- Custom Help Files, can be added just modifying two conf files where you need to write the description and the file name of your custom html help file (chm file format only)
License
KKTechGameMaster is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Third Party Software
We used Nullsoft Scriptable Install System 2.19 to produce the installer, in english language only. You can find the Nullsoft script KKTechGameMaster.nsi in the directory where you installed KKTechGameMaster.
No Third Party components and/or Third Party fonts, free for personal use only, will be distributed with KKTechGameMaster.
You have to read carefully the Release Notes to know all you will need to run KKTechGameMaster.
Installation Notes
You have just to click the over the executable to start the install process.
No Third Party components and/or Third Party fonts will be distributed with KKTechGameMaster.
You have to read carefully the Release Notes to know all you will need to run KKTechGameMaster.
Operating Systems
KKTechGameMaster was tested on the following Microsoft Windows 32-bit OS:
- Windows 2000 Professional
- Windows XP Professional
- Windows Server 2003
Future Directions
The first goal of this project was to produce a simply role-playing aid tool to help really the Game Masters. For example, we considered not necessary a random dice roller.
We are working on different fronts:
- new features
- a new project written in Visual Basic .NET: to verify
- a new project written in Java: jKKTechGameMaster
We are working to study the following new features:
- character generator
- random dice roller
- map editor
We are also working to produce a set of open source fonts. As of know we are testing a project working with an open source font editor: DoubleType 0.2.1 and/or TTFEdit 1.0.
Download
The software can be downloaded from:
