They were able to remove the special category of Interrupts needed just for counterspells. In contrast, it seems that in the process of developing the first computer game with AI they realized the "batch" system wasn't easily modelled and was replaced with the "stack" in Sixth Edition. So systems like Apprentice32 model the physical attributes and let you play against other players but require online opponents.
While fortunately, there are text sources for the cards in various languages, math is not one of those languages. However, games like Magic: The Gathering have one minor problem: you have to translate every card into that DSL. I think it would be fairly easy with a proper DSL for many games. The corollary to that flip side is that you can't build an effective AI without implementing the rules in software, as it's a player and must know the rules. The inevitable flip side, of course, being that the players really do need to know the rules, which is less of a problem with conventional online games that implement detailed object semantics." As a result, the cost involved in developing a module drops by an order of magnitude, at least. When I'm making a module, I don't have to tell the system what each symbol means or provide detailed directions about how they interact. Damn.Blue t-shirt: " Arguably, the brilliant bit of insight underscoring VASSAL is the notion that the players know the rules. My Happy Day Griddle-Grill was in there, too. Sadly, I think my worn & taped up Panzerblitz box was one of many possessions that got hauled off to the dump in the trunk of my '63 Buick Skylark when i was in to much of a booze-addled funk to do anything about it. I hung on to it for years and years, though - through 2.5 marriages. Once I moved back to San Francisco from Houston in the 8th grade and discovered girls, drugs & punk rock, I never did play that game again. The final result was often a 'Blitz version of 52-card pickup when someone would finally upend the whole thing. We'd each get to set up our 1/3 however we wanted, and the middle third would be empty, then we'd just charge at each other.
The most fun though, was when we blew off the scenarios, and just went "all in" - Germans on the left, Russians on the right, and every piece on the board. No other board game has ever stacked up to that one - the detail is just phenomenal. I learned a lot of history from the explorations that Panzerblitz spawned. We bought books about WWII military hardware - we hung pictures of the planes and tanks on the walls. We played all the scenarios, and would stay up laaaate on Saturday nights at his house in 5 & 6 hour games. High and I were fanatics about this game. It's like a $5,000 board game or something with all that gear, not to mention the months of play. He had that setup going for about a year. He was playing by himself, recreating the Battle of the Bulge or some other famous tank-heavy battle turn by turn and not just playing the game but trying to accurately model the actual historical combat event and trying to glean data about, I suppose, actual engagements and one on one exchanges and their real world probabilities through the simulation.
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I go over to his place one day and he's replaced his dad's airplane hanger in the garage with miles of scale 3D full terrain hex-cell foam maps laid out with bridges and trees and rivers and little painted tanks and armored troop carriers and everything, set up across half a dozen tables and pretty much consuming the garage.
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Dad was a RC modeler, mom was into complicated fantasy and romance novel series and their German-American slacker Rasta son was into period re-enactment, sword fighting, RPGs and tac/strat games. His whole family was American Gothic otaku, house falling down around their ears and black sheep in the suburban neighborhood and everything. I believe I've mentioned that he was not only our local mid 20s GM but he was also officially an adviser in our officially sanctioned on-campus nerd club. I had an odd friend/peer in High School, and I've mentioned him on MeFi in the sword nerd thread a while back.
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