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This is part two of a 2011 interview done at the end of MapTool 1.3 development. It’s a fun article to read again after all these years. We’ve accomplished a great deal of the 1.4 plans but had to delay some of the hopes due to JavaFX becoming a technical football at Oracle. We hope things have settled down with Oracle giving JavaFX to the Open JDK group.-
This interview was done in 2011 at the end of MapTool 1.3 development. It’s a fun article to read again after all these years. We’ve accomplished a great deal of the 1.4 plans but had to delay some of the hopes due to JavaFX becoming a technical football at Oracle. We hope things have settled down with Oracle giving JavaFX to the Open JDK group.
R. K. Athey, aka RPTroll, is the RPTools Bard and a member of the RPTools Staff. As Bard, RPTroll manages the social media sites for RPTools as well as other marketing tasks, such as interviews. He’s also responsible for managing and providing content to the rptools.net site.
Craig ‘no avatar’ Wisniewski is a current member of the RPTools staff and its lead developer. Craig writes most of the design documents we use behind the scenes to determine how features will work within MapTool and is active in release automation and release management. He’s one of the primary review gates for new code coming into the tools.
Bill Hart, aka Dorpond, is a member of the RPTools staff who provides guidance and support for new features in MapTool. While not as active as he once was, he still supports us as needed.
Frank Edwards, aka Azhrei, is one of the RPTools staff who does the hero’s work website upkeep. He’s also heavily involved in the current GitHub automation and past build automation. Perhaps most importantly to the end-user community, he serves as the main review gate/sanity check for new code and concepts entering into RPTools products.
Trevor Croft was the original developer for MapTool. He’s listed as Coder Emeritus in the credits and is one of the 3 founders of RPTools. Trevor left active development at RPTools to concentrate on family and career. He, more than any other person, made the beginning days of RPTool a success.- Devin Night is a freelance artist/illustrator and a long time friend to RPTools. He kindly donated art packs available for download in MapTool. Outside of MapTool, you’ve likely seen his work in products from Rite Publishing, Grey Matter Games, White Haired Man, and many others.
- One of the strengths of RPTools is the community of users who take the time to make life easier for others. Another strength of MapTool is its incredible flexibility and the vast number of options open to a gamemaster. However, that flexibility comes at the cost of a learning curve that may seem daunting. We are fortunate to have community members like Thomas Chapman who take the time to produce tutorials which demonstrate the functionality and best practices for MapTool use and adoption.
- One of the strengths of MapTool is its community. Case in point, Thomas Chapman who took the time to create a series of MapTool tutorials. Thanks, Thomas. We salute you.