Battlegrounds Games

[heruca]

BRPG v1.2 is now available for download. It is to be considered in beta status for the time being.

This is a full install, not a patch.

The main features of this update are:
• 26 new free tokens from Four Ugly Monsters (thanks, Devinnight!)
• Added support for card decks
• Created two default card decks to include with BRPG
• Added the ability for the GM to create custom card decks
• Bug fixes

The format for Encounters and Deployments has not changed since v1.1.

As usual, see the included ReadMe file for more details.

Download BRPG v1.2 here:
Windows version: http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/BRPGv1_2Win.zip
Mac version: http://www.battlegroundsgames.com/BRPGv1_2Mac.zip

Installation instructions are included in each zip file.

[heruca]

I realize that there isn't any documentation yet explaining the new features.
In the next day or two, I will be posting a video tutorial that explains how the Card Table interface works.

But until then, you're welcome to just experiment. It should be fairly intuitive, and if it isn't, you can offer suggestions for how to make it easier.

The Basics:
From the BG button's popup menu, select "Card Table". This opens the card table window, but it will be empty at first. You need to select a card deck to use. That part should be straightforward enough.

At this point, if all you need for your game is to draw cards at random, you're ready to go. You can draw a card by right-clicking on the deck and selecting the "Draw Card" command from a contextual popup menu. You can also access this popup menu by double-clicking the card deck. But the easiest and most intuitive method is just to drag-and-drop the card from the deck to the area just to the right of the deck. That area is called the Discard Pile.

The Discard Pile has its own popup menu (accessed the same way).

Any time you click and hold the mouse on a face-up card, you will see a zoomed image of it in the upper right corner of the Card Table window. The zoomed image goes away when you release the mouse button. This feature is ideal for custom card decks that have small print on the cards that is hard to read at the normal card size.

Once you played around enough to get familiar with how things work, click on the "Manage Players" button. Add a few players using the tools provided. If you are hosting a game session and anyone else is logged in, you will be able to define them as the "Owner" of the virtual card player you are defining. Click the "Done" button when you are finished adding card players. You can always add more later, if you need to.

Now when you return to the main card table screen, you will see three more popup menus: they allow you to define who the Dealer is, who's hand you wish to view, and who's Play Area you wish to view. A permissions-based system takes care of showing you only the cards you are entitled to view. Even the GM cannot see a player's cards (except for GM-controlled card players).

A player's hand is shown in the top portion of the window, where there is a semi-transparent white area. The are in the middle is reserved for the card deck and the Discard Pile. The lower portion of the screen is for showing cards that are "In Play" (i.e., on the virtual table). Cards in the Hand area and in the Play area also have contextual popup menus available, so please explore all the options.

Cards can be dragged-and-dropped between all four of these areas. For example, to play a card, you simply drag it from your Hand Area into the Play Area.

OK, this is getting a bit lengthy, so I'll wrap this up. Just a word of warning: I suspect that some bugs have yet to be discovered, so don't play anything too serious at first until we sort out any issues. And, as always, feel free to make feature suggestions for future releases.

[Halebop]

Sweet, will DL and have a play... just as soon as the Win version is available...

[Kepli]

Me too ... me too ...

[snikle]

heruca is this beta available to the public, or do you need a license to use this? and where is that windows version?

[Farland]

Okay, my question is:

Since I will never use BRPG for any kind of card game, I'm a little hesitant to download 1.2. How much does the card deck feature increase the already large program size? Is there any bloat?

[heruca]

[heruca]

[Dormouse]

[Full Bleed]

[Quest]

I tried the above manual Windows patch method and everything seems to be working as expected. I haven't tested the card table stuff yet, but the Hex map fixes I really wanted are there

[Kepli]

Congrats Heruca

I think you got one of the best excuses to be late with the windows version

Enjoy this time ahead and make sure to post some pictures

[Omnidon]

[heruca]

Thanks for the temp file, Omnidon.

I've been getting a little work done at the hospital, so I hope to have a final BRPG v1.2 for Windows released by Wednesday. The development work is done, it just needs to be compiled, tested, packaged up, and uploaded.

[Halebop]

Above and beyond the call of duty Heruca

I hope prospective customers appreciation your dedication.

[heruca]

Could a Windows user please test out the attached file to make sure it works OK?

To test this properly, you must have Omnidon's temporary v1.2 package already installed. Then just unzip the attached file ("Dice Roller.dxr") and place it in your BRPG directory, overwriting the existing one when prompted.

Thanks in advance.

If it checks out, I'll go ahead and upload a complete package of "BRPG v1.2 for Windows", probably tonight.

[Omnidon]

Well, it seems to work fine for dice rolling, though I haven't tested whether it fixes any bugs.

[heruca]

OK, the full Windows version of BRPG v1.2 is now complete, and available for download. See the opening post for the link.