Role-playing games – THATCamp Virginia 2013 http://virginia2013.thatcamp.org Just another THATCamp site Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:09:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 Hacking Role-playing & Storytelling Games http://virginia2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/07/hacking-role-playing-storytelling-games/ http://virginia2013.thatcamp.org/2013/11/07/hacking-role-playing-storytelling-games/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:04:02 +0000 http://virginia2013.thatcamp.org/?p=329

Love a good game? Join us for hacking and prototyping apps, games, props, and web resources for role-playing and storytelling games. This session is an open time for prototyping all sorts of physical-computing props and web resources for games you play – or for games you invent on the spot. Bring an idea or be on the lookout for a project that needs your help. While the proposer doesn’t quite know how to pull off everything imagineable, we might…

  • Make 3D campaign maps that use miniatures and MaKey MaKeys to trigger encounters animated in Scratch.
  • Program interactive game-master Twitter bots.
  • Prototype and publish remixable game rules and resources like character sheets using HTML5 and CSS in webauthoring tools like Webmaker Thimble.
  • Write and share random campaign and adventure engines in coding languages like JavaScript.

Bring your dice, games, ideas, expertise, hot glue, and cardboard – along with your favorite coding languages and any physical computing stuff you want – to hack and remix role-playing and storytelling resources out of ingenuity, circuitry, and the web. Extra experience points for community members who lend their hands to help others realize their wild and wacky game-making dreams.

I can bring: a couple of MaKey MaKeys, cardboard, hot glue guns and hot glue, some LEDs and batteries, short jumper wires, and basic HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript skills.

We might also need: Twitter bot overlords, web wranglers, designers of all ages, more stuff with which to build, and you and your imagination!

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