I’m currently working on 1.2 and hoping to have it out soon. It has a lot of improvements that I think people will enjoy. If you’d like a copy to review for your blog shoot me an email at mike@cordax.net.

Malcolm, if you’re looking at some Wave-ness, check out here (this is part of what I’m working, excuse self-pimpage)
http://at-will.omnivangelist.net/series/the-waves-the-thing/

I started with some articles and I’m working on a series of videos atm. I have one published and two more recorded and waiting for deployment. It’s 4e-based, but really easily applied to everything.

If you want the short version, here we go: get the iframe gadget for wave and you can mashup on a basic level just about anything.

I made a wave radio station, done group video watching on hulu, etc. And there are a ton of gaming applications using just this technique.

I’ve read your article at mobunited (good stuff!), which prompted me to take the plunge at the table with my aforementioned laptop-wavey-craziness.

I think you’d be best off with making a web app with a full-on API, that way you could have a Flash front-end, an iPhone app, and a standards-compliant web interface that didn’t require proprietary plugins or devices, all talking to the same server.

You could even have a Silverlight or Air app that talked to it, too.

Right now I use an iPod Touch as a dice roller and a SmartQ 5 (4.3 inch capacitive touchscreen and runs a full version of Ubuntu!) as a reader and for mobile writing (I can attach a full size keyboard to it). I also use the iPod Touch to get on the Internet and show people stuff. I did this last week in my Star Wars game to show them what an NPC droid looked like. I’m definitely going to grab some of the apps you’ve mentioned here (and previously, when I asked you about this via Twitter). My big annoyance right now is how lousy the iPod Touch is reading PDFs with simple file transfers, but their may be an app out there that does big rich content PDFs fine – I don’t know.

It’s definitely true that if nobody jumps in from the publisher end people will kludge their own solutions together. I think this is great, as it keeps publishers honest about providing value – the free option will always breathe down their necks.

I’ve got Wave going and see its potential, but it’s so busy and non-intuitive for me that I haven’t delved too deeply. I need to reread that article on Gameplaywright about using it, furrow my brow for a bit and sketch out an experiment. My bias right now is a future FLash-powered cloud app (see http://www.mobunited.com/mobunitedmedia/2009/12/04/rpg-ebook/) but this is driven by exposure to some very sophisticated web apps I’ve been exposed to working.

These are all great suggestions. I hope somebody jumps from these discussions to talk about a process for running games with existing stuff. Whoever can describe an efficient way to make it all hang together with current tools will be doing us all a big favour.

Which isn’t a dealbreaker, but it does make things a little more difficult.

Ahsome.

– c.

If someone wants to be stealthy, they can send me a ninja note with a private reply.

And so on. You’ll have to forgive me for ranting so furiously, but I’m just excited to try this out.

If you’ll pardon me, I need to go clear some froth.

– c.