note: cross-posted at larper.com forums
After I graduate this spring, I'm planning on taking some time off from trying to make something of myself, and "find myself," so to speak. This means that I'll be living a little Spartan, but I'll have time to work on personal projects. I already have a couple of small, turn-based games thought out, but I had the idea of designing and writing something targeted toward people who run LARPs. Unlike most of my personal projects, this would be intended mainly for other people to use. This is one of those things I'd have to do research on if I wanted to make anything worthwhile that hasn't already been done. To that end, I'd like some input from those that have run either Alliance chapters or some other game. If I can generalize it enough to include tabletop games, I will, so if you have experience GMing one of those, that's cool too. Anyway, my questions:
What kind of software support, if any, do you currently use? I'm sure many of you use computerized databases. What features did/does it have that you found/find particularly useful. What made/makes it a little hard to use for your purpose?
What would you find it useful to be more automated? Put a different way, if you had a Logistics intern, what would you tell him/her to do? Something that probably doesn't take a lot of judgement, but needs to be done anyway.
Is there something that you might do or allow to be done, if it didn't take so much work as to be not worth it?
After I graduate this spring, I'm planning on taking some time off from trying to make something of myself, and "find myself," so to speak. This means that I'll be living a little Spartan, but I'll have time to work on personal projects. I already have a couple of small, turn-based games thought out, but I had the idea of designing and writing something targeted toward people who run LARPs. Unlike most of my personal projects, this would be intended mainly for other people to use. This is one of those things I'd have to do research on if I wanted to make anything worthwhile that hasn't already been done. To that end, I'd like some input from those that have run either Alliance chapters or some other game. If I can generalize it enough to include tabletop games, I will, so if you have experience GMing one of those, that's cool too. Anyway, my questions:
What kind of software support, if any, do you currently use? I'm sure many of you use computerized databases. What features did/does it have that you found/find particularly useful. What made/makes it a little hard to use for your purpose?
What would you find it useful to be more automated? Put a different way, if you had a Logistics intern, what would you tell him/her to do? Something that probably doesn't take a lot of judgement, but needs to be done anyway.
Is there something that you might do or allow to be done, if it didn't take so much work as to be not worth it?