A few years ago I thought I'd try to come up with a program to help me create a fantasy world based on Iron Crown Enterprise's original Rolemaster fantasy role playing game. There have been 7 releases of these "ice" tools since the first incarnation. Along the way there have been a few missteps (long delays, and a huge code loss), but there's also been some highlights (people asking to borrow code for other projects). With this blog I'm hoping to not only document the development process, but provide an opportunity for the Rolemaster community to provide feedback. Iceutils is hosted on my Linux-games.ca web site.IceUtils is a Linux command-line-based suite of gaming tools, but that doesn't mean they always will be! My plan is to work towards a graphical release in version 1.0. Until version 1.0 I'll continue to add features and tools. Why command-line tools and why Linux?
Originally my idea was just to create something simple that I could use to rapidly develop a fantasy world. The simplest way to do that was to create text tools. I didn't want to have to learn how to develop GUI software and spend time planning how to implement a GUI for such a diverse suite of tools. Yes, I could have simplified things, or written a GUI tool for each program, but I had a couple of other ideas in mind:
- Being able to use the tools in IRC, Internet Relay Chat
- Being able to pipe the results of the tools to a text-file
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