NOTE:

This will not be developed any further, this was an hackweek attempt to get familar with electron, I took several wrong turns during this. I will remodel it at some point and reimplement it at some point (next hackweek maybe).

Mapinator

Mapinator is (probably going to be) a handy tool for the gamemaster hosting pen and paper sessions (like D&D, Deadlands or Shadowrun). The idea is that you have the map tinted on the gamemasters laptop and a map on a second screen (preferably embedded into the table) where only parts of the map is revealed to the players (aka fog of war).

Note: at the moment this is a very early stage and WIP so do not expect to much from it.

Build dependencies

You need a current version of nodeJS installed. I am developing with 10.16.0.

Running

So far there is now stable release of the Mapinator. If you want to try it nethertheless you can run it using the following steps:

• Check out the code

  $> git clone https://github.com/dragonchaser/mapinator.git
  

• traverse into the directory

  $> cd mapinator
  

• install dependencies

  $> npm install
  

• run mapinator

  $> npm start
  

What is working:

• loading maps from images and displaying them on both screens simultaniously
• zooming (controlled from gamemaster screen)

What is not working (and what is WIP at the moment):

• scrolling map on players screen from gamemaster screen
• switching between different loaded maps (partly working, buggy atm)
• unloading maps

Roadmap

• rotate maps
• make zoom and scrollposition persistant during the session
• fog of war (tinted on the gamemaster screen, opaque on the players screen)
• storing and loading sessions.
• (nice to have) ability to place markers (for entities, players, npc, etc.) on the map.
• customizable (hex-)grid
• stable release for windows, linux and (maybe) OSX

Note: The view in the game masters window is intentionally scaled down by 50%, this is not a bug.