Cyclopean - Character Generator Application

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Here's a nifty idea - Iron Tower's Cyclopean lead Scott has released a Flash-based application that demos the anticipated character generation system for his early-in-development Lovecraftian CRPG. The application was designed for testing and balancing but releasing it is a fantastic idea for fans. Here's Scott's description:
I've created a Flash application that mimics the current iteration of stats, skills and traits for a character in Cyclopean. The user starts out at Level 1, chooses a Background or no Background, and may interactively review and purchase stats, skills and traits to evaluate how a character would progress and what he could achieve and when.
Read all about it in this thread at Iron Tower.
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Why Flash-based ?

Personally, I would've preferred an offline version of it.

Making an app with VB or with Delphi can't be so difficult, I guess ...
 
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Well save it to your computer and then it will be offline, won't it?

The player is free so I don't see why it makes a difference.
 
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I'm conservative, you know ? ;)
 
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Why Flash-based ?

Personally, I would've preferred an offline version of it.

Making an app with VB or with Delphi can't be so difficult, I guess ...

Why not? Flash is a really fast way to quickly prototype user interfaces, it's platform-independent, and it's highly versatile. The fact that 99% of the stuff done with it is rubbish doesn't mean there's anything wrong with Flash itself.

(Checking out the character generator now...)
 
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just been trying a char out
this is him:
Background: Descended From Witches
Level: 1
Stats Skills
STR 3 mech: 22
END 4 mind: 33
DEX 7 dece: 36
INT 7 medi: 28
WIL 7 arca: 41
PER 7 phys: 19
club: 14
Lif 21 blad: 29
San 76 fire: 23
Def 2
Background Traits: EQUANIMITY -- SPELL RESISTANCE -- FAMILIAR -- HATED BY ANIMALS

Traits: translationi --
 
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I made a few characters. The system really forces you to specialize. I could only max out 2 skills, and that was at the cost of ignoring pretty much everything else, including many traits in the skills I maxed. It's a pretty nifty system. Let's hope it has ways to utilize all of these skills (and gets made in the first place).
 
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