Warpspawn Digital Design Laboratories

Warpspawn Games is property of Lloyd Krassner, this is merely a fan site.

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To convert free Warpspawn games from paper to an interactive digital format.
More people, playing more Warpspawn games, in more places.

No eye-candy, trigger fingers, or human vegatables here, just food for the imagination & playgrounds for the brain. Warpspawn Digital Design Laboratories (WaDDL) favors game mechanics, game design, strategy, A.I., and variety over brain-dead glitter & awe. WaDDL is designed to provide small operating-system independent, resource-friendly, digital versions of the great Warpspawn pen & paper games which trancsend time & space, both real & imaginary; through foreign lands, epic battles, and alien worlds. Do not think of WaDDL as a replacement for cool cards or playing against friends, but as a kick-start, no assembly required, robot G.M./accountant, multi-player A.I., and eventually a text-only digital game design laboratory.

It is the year 1518 and you are the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes. You have been put in charge of an expedition to explore and secure the interior of Mexico for Spanish colonization.

Complexity: Low (2), Length: Medium

You are the president of the United States of America in a low complexity simulation of recent attempts by Western powers to stabilize the middle-east in their favor.

Complexity: Medium (5), Length: Medium, Developer’s Notes: This module is my personal favorite.

The year is 52 BC, Vercingetorix (wer-king-gheto-rks), “over-king of the marching men” and chieftain of the Arverni, has united the Gauls against the Roman empire. Julius Caesar has assumed control of the mightly Roman legions in an epic battle to put down the Gallic “long-hair” Celtic tribal resistance. Your job is to steer the Roman’s to victory in the battle for Gaul (modern-day Belgium & France).

Complexity: Low (1), Length: Short

• Operating system independent (Windows, *nix, MAC, anywhere you can run Python 2.3 or higher)
• Resource friendly (memory, CPU & hard drive requirements negligible)
• Tiny file-size (dial-up access friendly)
• Eliminate file littering (all WaDDL modules, cards, etc. can be extracted & run from within the same exact folder)
• Complete stand-alone packages (all program logic is contained in 1 file, external files are only used for cards, rules, scripts & A.I.)
• Text-only (true portability/platform independence, dramatically speeds up development, minimizes complexity of application).
• Support for turn-based (not real-time) card, board and dice stragegy games.

• Python game development module
• Game scripting language
• High-level rules parser
• Interactive command-line
• Warpspawn card parser
• Searchable game selection menu

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