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Offline vtsaogames

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Computer moderated games
« on: Today at 10:45:14 AM »
I recently played in a game of Carnage & Glory. Each player had to give pertinent data to the GM who entered it into his laptop and reported results. As the game went on, players attention wandered. Some couldn't recall if they had already fired this turn. The GM had to check, etc.
The single point of data entry slowed the game down.

I read something about a guy working on a system of linked tablets, so each player could enter data called Electronic Brigadier. It is on Facebook, which I avoid for various reasons. Also, the last post there was in 2015.

Victrix is working on a platoon level WWII game that runs on an iPhone. I have an Android.

Anyone else know of commercially available computer moderated systems? Hopefully that don't require advanced study to operate?
« Last Edit: Today at 10:49:34 AM by vtsaogames »
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Offline Dubar

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Re: Computer moderated games
« Reply #1 on: Today at 12:05:13 PM »
I've looked but have found nothing.

Years ago I wrote a program for my Commodore 64, entering all the data necessary to play the old game "Tank Charts".  It surprisingly worked!!!  I think all I had to do was enter the type of firing and target units, then the distance, press the ENTER button and BINGO...the program gave me whether or not I hit and penetrated the armor of the target.

Recently I "found" all my Tank Charts but unfortunately the C64 is long gone.  I "put my Google on" and searched for something I could use in the modern world to rewrite the basic program but so far nothing has popped up.

My thoughts were any time I can do away with having to lookup tables of data (let the computer do it) it should make the game easier and quicker to play.
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