Dataslate
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A friend of mine had been running a weekly Dark Heresy game and asked me to write him a simple application that would help with managing the initiative order in combat. The app slowly expanded with some additional features, and is now a pretty well-featured Encounter Manager.
I call it Dataslate.
I am posting it here for everyone to use according to the license below.
Please comment if you have any feature request for this application, and I will try to incorporate them as I find time. I have also added tooltips to parts of the application to help explain those parts. Just hover over the Title for that part and a tooltip should pop up. If one doesn’t, I have not added help to that section yet, so please leave a comment telling me what section needs to be clarified.
If the flash installer below is not working, you can directly download the Air package. Requires the Adobe Air Runtime
Dataslate by Brandon Bodnar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.fantasyflightgames.com.
*Fantasy Flight Games, I in no way mean to tread on any of your copyright or trademarks, and do not believe I have done so. I only mean to provide the community with some free useful tools to play your awesome game.
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This is the greatest app out there for things such as this. The creator should make more apps for the gaming world and then become rich.
This app really is epic, when I asked Brandon to help out he blew my mind with what he produced. After using it in the games and working with him to fine tune it, the app turned into an essential element of my game.
It includes preset encounters
On the fly encounters
GM event notes
and more!
I highly recommended this encounter tracker to GMs, it will speed up combat guaranteed.
Very awesome tool you’ve created here. My old DM (and now myself doing the DM’ing) used to do something similar on paper with the preset encounters and the like. This makes it all like a dream to access.
I suggest this to anyone wanting an easy way to bring up encounters, handle initiative, and keep track of the PC party as a whole. A++
Hi,
I heard about this on darkreign40k.com and got really interested. Unfortunately I can not get it to work.
I downloaded the flash player linked above but still nothing.
So what must I do to get this to work for me? Thanks in advance.
Cheers for this, should be able to avoid the usual chaos that comes with badly scribbled notes on half a dozen sheets of paper.
This is great!
You should go into the business of ap’s for support of RPG pen and papar RPG games like Dark Heresy and Cthulhu (saw you unamable ap:)
A full featured GM support suite for Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader or the math-heavy Shadowrun on a device like Ipad is something ive been wanting for years.
If each player had an ipad or tablet device, they could be wifi’ed or blutoothed. Nothing complex/graphical – thats most important! Just have them do all the math so the players can focus on the Roleplaying.
Currently working on a product similar to what you described. Should be done by the end of the summer, after graduation and before I start law school.
Amazing app. Makes combat so much quicker and easier. Wish I would have found it sooner. Sadly though it sounds like you will mainly be focusing on apps for the iphone/ipad?
Also dont know how easy this would be but I would like to see a place where you can input/keep track of custom items/weapons (with a place to show what the stats are etc.)
It is not so much that I am focused on iPhone/iPad development as much as the time constraints I am under between my internship, getting ready for law school, selling on the App Store, and then free side projects forces me to prioritize things, and DataSlate kept getting pushed back. So I am always looking for more ideas for bits to add to DataSlate, I will add your suggestion to my list of possible features for the next version of Data Slate. I am hoping to get around to it before the start of next school year, but it will depend on work schedules.
Thanks.
Brandon,
This is a very novel tool that you have here. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that FFG might want to buy in to it… I personally would pay between $10 – $20 for a refined version of Dataslate.
Keep up the good work!
CVS