Projects

My github, where the source to all of these projects can be found: https://github.com/rusty-software?tab=repositories

If you just want to play the games/see the sites, here are links to some of those...

LBPQuest III

LBPQuest III is the third installment in the series of games I've created for my college buddies. This one was created with RPG Maker MZ (utilizing a series of free plug-ins) and features images generated by Craiyon and music by Scott Buckley. Stylistically, it's more akin to a JRPG than anything else, but the game itself is more a throwback to Ultima III (with a splash of Ultima IV for good measure). It's fully playable in the browser but utilizes the browser's local storage (meaning, if you clear your cookies, you lose your game state). Most importantly, it's fun for the folks that have context; for anyone else, I can't guarantee the experience will be fulfilling.

LBPQuest II

LBPQuest II is the sequel to last year's text-based adventure game. Thanks to the miracles of modern science, a vaccine for COVID-19 was made widely available very quickly, and everyone in our crue is fully shotted. As such, we're planning to meet in person for this year's glamping trip. However, we couldn't get our "normal" venue, so selected a new one. As such, a new game in a new setting was undertaken. It's a substantially different implementation from the last one, relying heavily on TypeScript classes, but uses the same underlying React bits as the last one. Same caveats as the last one too -- decent browser experience, not-as-great mobile one...

LBPQuest

LBPQuest is a text-based adventure game based on, once again, my annual glamping trips with my college friends. As with most of my games, it's not perfect, but it has most of the fun features of Infocom-style games from the 1980s. The game is best played in a browser, but *can* be undertaken on a mobile device.

Bob Ross Lipsum

A lorem ipsum generator made up exclusively of quotes from Bob Ross. I spent a few hours on YouTube going through a bunch of episodes. The list is a bit repetitive, because he said the same thing quite a bit, but is unique enough to be inspiring. Why use boring old fake Latin when you can quote one of the most inadvertently zen guys in history?

Liyarr’s Dice

Liyarr’s Dice (Liar’s Dice) is a multiplayer browser-based implementation of the common party dice game of the same name (you’re going to be hearing that phrase more than once). It’s also known as Pirate’s Dice, as popularized in the second installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I first played it in a game on the Commodore 64 named Legacy of the Ancients, and I always lost money playing it. It’s fun for a group of people that want to try to fake each other out.
BitFarkle is a multiplayer browser-based implementation of the common party dice game of the same name. Farkle is known by other names as well -- Greed, Hot Dice, Squelch, and Zilch to name a few. The game has no limit to the number of players that can participate, although it does currently require Google authentication. I think it's pretty complete, but the design isn't perfect. Let me know what you think about it!

Fox Say

Every year during our annual college buddy glamping trip we have a poker tournament. Specifically, we have a Texas Hold’em tournament. I’m not very good at poker, so one year I thought I’d try to train a little by finding an app to play or practice with. Unfortunately, there weren’t many that did things the way I wanted. Thus, Fox Say was born. It’s a work-in-progress, as most of my projects are, but I’m pretty satisfied with the No-Limit Pre-Flop training.

Dark Tower

Ah, the Dark Tower (not Stephen King's, nor Robert Browning's poem). No, the Dark Tower I'm referring to was a board game produced by Milton Bradley in the early 1980s. It was one of the first board games to include a microprocessor-driven decisioning engine. My best friend owned a copy, and I adored it. It's currently unfinished. As of the time of this writing, it works locally in single player mode. To-dos including shoring up multiplayer and adding Wizard event support. I also need to change out the graphics a bit. The link above points to the source code.

Name Generator

Name Generator is a little app I threw together to help come up with character names for the Transformers tabletop RPG in which I participate. It takes the most common prefixes and suffixes, shuffles them around, combines them, and removes canonical names.

Cartagena

Cartagena is a board game that I've ported to the Intarwebz for multiplayer consumption. It's only designed to support up to 5 players. It follows the rules of the Cartagena board game (as far as I understand them).

LBPERRYDAY

LBPErryDay is slightly hard to explain, but at a high level, is a board game I made up to amuse my college pals. We go "camping" once a year, and the intent of this game is to poke fun at the entire experience.

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