[sfbol-planning] Possible Engine we can use?...

[Devlyn D. <de...@ya...>]

This is related to an earlier post about the engine
that was used for Delta V online.  When I posted that
note, I hadn't realized that the base engine was
actually being opened up for further customization.

Check here:  http://www.vasl.org/vassal/

This is the VASSAL Engine.  It it the engine that was
originally made to allow playing of Advanced Squad
Leader of the internet.  The author, Rodney Kinney,
has opened up the software to allow custom modules to
be made to allow for a wide range of games.

This is very close to the level of customization that
I think we were looking for.  It is client heavy, but
it does already solve a lot of problems including
interface, communication, logging, etc.  It also
allows expandability via custom Java classes within a
module.  

Should we look into this further and maybe use this as
the base engine and expend our energy making it work
for SFB?  This is posed as a question...I do not have
the programming expertise to know if this is
better/worse/indifferent to current plans.

-Dev

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