Welcome to the truup, an online Grapevine clone. It is built on the CakePHP 1.2 beta framework, and is currently under construction. The site is open for pre-alpha testing only. Feel free to register and try the available tools out, but please keep in mind they are still in early development, and any/all data you submit may be reverted and/or erased without warning.
By Wil Alambre, on Jun 27th 2008
I found some time around my crazy busy schedule to add a little more functionality to the Truup character sheet app. It's still definitely in early, early alpha (pretty much deep in the why-even-bother-showing-it phase of development), but those interested in following along and making suggestions should start to see some improvements.
First of all, I removed the zero option in number pulldowns, so now you can no longer choose to add "Brawl x0" to your sheet. Those bad entires were being tossed rather than being saved, and it was only confusing people anyway. This should solve the "I added my traits but it didn't save them" issue people were having.
Some elements of a sheet now have an area that you can leave a little note. It currently doesn't really do anything fancy, other than leaving a message to yourself (but in the future, this may be messages from yourself and your storytellers). They are accessible from the "Edit" mode, but I'll be pulling them into the "View" sheet mode soon.
I added version history to character sheets. Every time you make an edit to an existing character sheet, the previous version is filed away for reference. Just the "Version" pulldown on the top-right-hand corner of the character sheet to see past versions! You can't edit those past version, or do much of anything really... but with the addition of notes, you can track changes and why. I'm thinking of adding extra functionality to colour or mark what changes were made between versions, depending on how easy/hard it is. Hm.
I'm currently playing with various style changes. Nothing is permanent yet, and I fully expect the styles to fall apart in some browsers (mostly IE). Apologies to those trying the alpha site out and seeing a jumble... but while I have your attention, can I recommend Firefox 3? :)
Anyway, feel free to continue using it. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome :)
By Wil Alambre, on Jun 23rd 2008
Hello all! If you haven't heard yet, I'm interested in building an online Grapevine clone using the CakePHP 1.2 framework. Ideally, this will provide any World Of Darkness LARPer and their storytellers a place to build and organize their character sheets. Keep in mind though, like Grapevine before it, Truup will be an administrative tool, not a character generator; you will still need all the appropriate books.
I'm going to try develop this pretty openly; I'll try to keep these news posts running when new features are available, and try to keep the site open to the public. In the near future, I expect to even allow commenting on these updates, but for the time being, you can leave feedback on the mirrored LiveJournal posts. However, this is a free time project for me, and I work on it when I feel like it... so don't be surprised by long stretches of nothing happening. :)
Right now, people are able to register, login, and manage their Laws Of The Night Revised character sheets. There's very little in the way of documentation or help text, so you're on your own right now. Also, be aware that I may need to revert and/or erase data as part of the development process, so I don't recommend relying on it at the moment. Nonetheless, have fun!