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Existing Tools
ACTS
Aide De Camp 2
Apprentice
Battlegrounds Gaming Engine
BattleGrounds: RPG Edition
Board Games Online
CyberBoard
Ditzie
FlexibleRules
HexWar
LackeyCCG
Magic Set Editor
Magic Workstation
nanDECK
O Dream Board
OCTGN
Protohut
ScanPlay
Sleep Is Death
Taebl
Thoth Engine
VASSAL
Virtual Board
Virtual Card Table
Wildcard
ZunTzu
Prior Art
There are a number of existing tools which help with prototyping and playtesting. Here, I examine several of them. Actually comparing them all may prove to be an lifelong task, but I'll keep working on it. Details on the ones I've done are off to the right, and the ones I'm still planning to get to are here:
- Zillions of Games
- Axiom Development Kit
- RPG Virtual Tabletop
- OpenRPG
- Fantasy Grounds
- d20Pro Virtual Game Table
- Maptools
- kloogewerks
Of the tools I've already compared, here's the ordered list, according to how well I feel they fit the bill as an easy to use, general purpose prototyping and playtesting tool:
| VASSAL | 79% | |
| ACTS | 70% | |
| LackeyCCG | 67% | |
| ZunTzu | 67% | |
| Battlegrounds Gaming Engine | 63% | |
| Battlegrounds: RPG Edition | 63% | |
| OCTGN | 63% | |
| Taebl | 58% | |
| FlexibleRules | 54% | |
| Board Games Online | 50% | |
| Protohut | 50% | |
| Wildcard | 50% | |
| Thoth Engine | 46% | |
| ScanPlay | 42% | |
| Virtual Board | 42% | |
| Virtual Card Table | 42% | |
| Aide De Camp 2 | 38% | |
| Ditzie | 38% | |
| HexWar | 38% | |
| Sleep Is Death | 38% | |
| CyberBoard | 33% | |
| Magic Workstation | 33% | |
| nanDECK | 33% | |
| O Dream Board | 29% | |
| Apprentice | 25% | |
| Magic Set Editor | 20% |