Current Plans for WarKit (v2)

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Well, we have narrowed our focus (2-D board wargames) and described
how space is organized (3-D floats, hierarchical regions).  Now we are
exploring how pieces interact with the world and each other.

We will start with motion, then cover sensing and combat.  We may need
to detour into a philsophical discussion of what a "piece" is at some
point.  Also, we have only dealt with space, not time, so at some
point we will need to deal with clocks and event processing.  Once we
get that out of the way, we can delve into the murky areas of user
displays, inspectors, and player control.

A rough list of planned topics follows, in tentative order:


	WarPath: Getting a Move on

	War and Pieces:  The Troops in the Trenches

	Weapons, Targets, and Actions

	non-SENSEless Random Violence: Finding the Enemy

	Computerized Conflict Resolution: CRTs on your CRT

	The Best of Timers:  A Tale of Two Syncs

Remeber to use word "War" or some military term in your subject.  Bad
puns are optional, but encouraged.

Ernest Prabhakar, WarMaster
November  16th, 1993