Wow, actually... organizing a roleplaying game and playing over Wave is the first usage case that actually excites and applies to me. All of its features would really be helpful in that situation! I imagine it'd be pretty easy to develop dice rollers and whatnot for the platform, too. :^:
If you google 'GURPS wave' a thread on the GURPS forums pops up where someone has figured out how to configure the character generator export in such a way that dice-bot will automatically read it and allow you to enter commands specific to your character's abilities. It's a bit beyond me but I'm figuring it out.
Wow, actually... organizing a roleplaying game and playing over Wave is the first usage case that actually excites and applies to me. All of its features would really be helpful in that situation! I imagine it'd be pretty easy to develop dice rollers and whatnot for the platform, too. :^:
If you google 'GURPS wave' a thread on the GURPS forums pops up where someone has figured out how to configure the character generator export in such a way that dice-bot will automatically read it and allow you to enter commands specific to your character's abilities. It's a bit beyond me but I'm figuring it out.
Wow, actually... organizing a roleplaying game and playing over Wave is the first usage case that actually excites and applies to me. All of its features would really be helpful in that situation! I imagine it'd be pretty easy to develop dice rollers and whatnot for the platform, too. :^:
If you google 'GURPS wave' a thread on the GURPS forums pops up where someone has figured out how to configure the character generator export in such a way that dice-bot will automatically read it and allow you to enter commands specific to your character's abilities. It's a bit beyond me but I'm figuring it out.
All it does is tell you that a wave has been updated, but it is really good at doing that. It also seems to be pretty unintrusive within the wave itself, which is handy.
Hi, I realize this thread is really old but I wouldn't want to create a new thread for a minor request such as mine. I've recently found a use for Google Wave and would really appreciate an invite sent my way.
EDIT: Cyvros has sent an invite my way now. Thanks dude!
I've found it to be extraordinarily useful for note taking.
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Also, if you use it instead of e-mail as it was designed, it actually works really well.
It only gets weird when you have public waves open to billions.
And the existence of the experiment doesn't hurt you in any way. It's trivial for Google to put another product on their supercluster. If no one uses it, it's no extra strain on their resources. If a lot of people use it, it's a new product for them to put their ads on.
The issue with wave is that it wasn't new, it was over hyped, and it had limited controls that are confusing.
Wave is really the evolution of IRC with a full blow application layer.
Welcome to the exciting world of innovation being sold as invention.
This is what Apple does, and they don't get a tenth of the complaints.
I think part of it is that with Apple products you just spent at least a couple hundred bucks on something, so you're probably going to make sure you like it first. Also, other than maybe the ipad, Apple products are clear on what they're for.
Not many people are sure wtf to do with Wave.
Personally, (I think I mentioned this awhile ago in this thread) I'd like to see a modified version used for forums.
I've been using http://www.typewith.me instead of Wave, and it's a heck of a lot more usable. It doesn't even come close to Wave's featureset (it's basically an online word processor with real-time collaboration), but unlike Wave it actually runs at an acceptable performance.
Shame it's no longer being actively developed - the original company that developed it (EtherPad) was bought up by Google to work on Wave.
I've been using http://www.typewith.me instead of Wave, and it's a heck of a lot more usable. It doesn't even come close to Wave's featureset (it's basically an online word processor with real-time collaboration), but unlike Wave it actually runs at an acceptable performance.
Shame it's no longer being actively developed - the original company that developed it (EtherPad) was bought up by Google to work on Wave.
Mysteriously, shortly after that team moved to Google, we got Etherpad-style real-time editing in Google Docs.
They can certainly do it. It's just often easier and cheaper to buy someone who has already done it.
Like it or not, Google is a corporation and is beholden to its shareholders. That its shareholders have given it so much room for so long is very unusual. A little tightening of the leash was inevitable during a recession.
Exactly. It also means that Google isn't yet another victim of NIH syndrome, which ends up being a colossal waste of money, particularly if every damn company insists on making and remaking the same thing over and over again. It's faster, cheaper and more efficient to buy or license something someone else has made. Or, hell, just buy the company. It's not like only Google does it.
Also, "force them to do it"? Really?
"Yarr, I'm Google and I'm pointing a gun at your head for your warez, and absolutely not throwing cash at your company and employees."
"I bet you thought that when we offered you a bunch of money for your ideas, and you accepted and became a Google employee, that you wouldn't be working on them anymore. THINK AGAIN." <evil laugh>
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Yeah, why can't google be like other companies and just attempt to do half-assed rip offs of other people's work, rather than finding the people who know how to do shit and hiring them to do it?
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dice-bot@appspot.com and randomleetwenty@appspot.com are dicebots
sweepy-wave@appspot.com deletes blips that have no content (really wave should just do this automatically)
wave-email-notifications@appspot.com puts an app in the first blip that allows you to set up automatic email notifications, handy for play-by-post games
tocgen@appspot.com automatically generates a table of contents in the first blip by reading every other blip's H1/H2/etc entries
wavearchive@appspot.com somehow lets you prevent other people from ruining months of work but I haven't worked it out yet
If you google 'GURPS wave' a thread on the GURPS forums pops up where someone has figured out how to configure the character generator export in such a way that dice-bot will automatically read it and allow you to enter commands specific to your character's abilities. It's a bit beyond me but I'm figuring it out.
And yeah, randomleetwenty is by far the best diceroller I've tried out so far.
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Wave really needs some nice revision control.
Uh...it's nothing but a giant revision control system where all branches are continuously merged into the trunk/master.
See this for more information than you ever cared to know about how it works.
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EDIT: Cyvros has sent an invite my way now. Thanks dude!
wasn't it supposed to be some massive textual revolution
I guess it's just another case of Google trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist
so much inefficiency going on over there.
It only gets weird when you have public waves open to billions.
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I know, right? No one should ever try to do something a new way. Nope. Innovation is for idiots.
New != better
Even if that's the case, it doesn't mean they shouldn't try
Not always, true. But you are saying they should never try ever. Which is silly goose to the extreme.
Wave is really the evolution of IRC with a full blow application layer.
Welcome to the exciting world of innovation being sold as invention.
This is what Apple does, and they don't get a tenth of the complaints.
I think part of it is that with Apple products you just spent at least a couple hundred bucks on something, so you're probably going to make sure you like it first. Also, other than maybe the ipad, Apple products are clear on what they're for.
Not many people are sure wtf to do with Wave.
Personally, (I think I mentioned this awhile ago in this thread) I'd like to see a modified version used for forums.
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A standalone app would be so much cooler.
http://lifehacker.com/5387800/waver-is-a-compact-google-wave-client
And there are probably more and better clients now.
Just waiting for the mobile version to not crash all the time now...
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Shame it's no longer being actively developed - the original company that developed it (EtherPad) was bought up by Google to work on Wave.
Fuck man, they could even just use popup windows. I've seen that kind of shit all the time.
Mysteriously, shortly after that team moved to Google, we got Etherpad-style real-time editing in Google Docs.
Like it or not, Google is a corporation and is beholden to its shareholders. That its shareholders have given it so much room for so long is very unusual. A little tightening of the leash was inevitable during a recession.
Also, "force them to do it"? Really?
"Yarr, I'm Google and I'm pointing a gun at your head for your warez, and absolutely not throwing cash at your company and employees."
Really?
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