Heroscape.org - New Software Support for Heroscape

[Chris Perkins]

Originally Posted by Sir Heroscape

Curious if you'll be working on setup/management of OHS format type events? I know the OHS team already has their own way/tool of doing this...and it seems pretty slick...but I'm curious if you have plans or ideas around a setup that would allow an OHS event to be run by someone other than the OHS team without having to use their matchup tool. For example, in terms of armies, tracking, scoring, matchups this tool still works...the only thing that wouldn't is that OHS requires a specific game link to the online map/game.

do you have plans to sync the OHS tool into this site or create your own tool that would be able to generate the game links for OHS events? I'm really curious because I'd love to be able to run my own OHS events for my YT Channel without having to bug the OHS team for use of their skills/tools every time.

To answer the direct question: no, I don't have any such active plans.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to the idea, but I think there are some complications, and I would likely only undertake this if I thought it would be an easy addition (which, right now, I don't).

The biggest complication is that I don't want any formal link between an account on Heroscapers.com & Heroscape.org, which might make what you are describing difficult to do (i.e. if you had different usernames on different sites).

But there are other technical complications, for example manipulating the Google Docs programmatically. Things I imagine I could do, but would take meaningful effort.

However, I know that @MegaSilver is currently using Heroscape.org to run his OST Season 1. So I imagine I'll get feedback from him during & after the event about what worked easily and what didn't while using both platforms and perhaps re-evaluate based on how that goes.

[Dysole]

Our stuff does use some backend programming that I kind of understand. (It's actually different from the stuff we've used for single day events or that I created for Scapecon from those templates) The pairing system we use is much more complicated than anything Chris has set up. It's not impossible, but it's definitely something that would require more steps and probably a lot of collaborative effort.

~Dysole, informationally