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Eventually the plan here is to write a system for playing tabletop games online that's geared specifically towards the less-map-oriented, more-data-oriented games. (By which I mean: maps and other details should be possible but it doesn't put you into a view where it assumes you're moving tokens around a map a la D&D, but instead should have a data-first UI where it shows you, like, character sheets and data organization.)

Some ideas:

• a deliberately-constrained, non-Turing-complete programming language for describing the outcomes of rolls
• some easy-to-customize way of building game-specific UI details

Some Ideas

Language

• maybe s-expressions or io or some other simple substrate? (LOGO?)
• some kind of table mechanism

• notion of reactive widgets (clearly objects)

widget FourClock:
  progress: number(0 through 4)

  on Tick:
    progress := progress + 1

  on Reset:
    progress := 0

  on Set(k: number(0 through 4)):
    progress := k

Initial Test Cases:

Dogs in the Vineyard

Need to be able to handle:

• adding to dice pools
• moving forward in dice pools
• resetting after a conflict

Blades in the Dark

Danger Patrol