Perhaps sale a copy to FF that they in turn could sale to us? or you could sale it to us and give some $$$

Or what about posting a how-to step by step guide on how to make the program? Surely there's nothing wrong with that. People post stuff on how to make custom arkham bags and stuff all the time.

Not sure what you want to know. It's not hard at all to create a program like this. Someone with some programming experience should be able to do it.

I have all cards in a folder, names mythos1.jpg to mythos188.jpg. I have a function to load all the card filenames needed into a std::list (or something similar). Say I want to play with Arkham and Kingsport, then I'll load cards 1-67 and 104-125. Afterwards I set some special flags if needed (e.g. the card "The story continues" has the shuffle flag). Also, there are some mythos cards that are duplicates, so you simply add the duplicates to the list as well.

When drawing a card, I generate a random number between 0 and the number of cards left in the list. Remove the card from the list and display it on the screen. When I have 0 cards left in the list or when I encounter the shuffle card, remove all cards from the list and reload the list.

Other World cards are almost the same. Each card has a color flag. So just draw random until you get the correct color.

Arkham encounters are somewhat different. I've included two options: shuffle before drawing the card like the rules state, and shuffling upfront and moving the card to the bottom of the deck after drawing. The first option is close the the mythos and other world decks. Draw random from your list, but simply don't remove the card. Second options is different: I created a std:deque with the cards added randomized. Then each draw will pop the front, and push it back at the end.

That's some of the details. Let me know if you need more information.

Hehe
Though I appreciate the thought, I have absolutely no programming experience What-so-ever and couldn’t understand a thing you just said!
But it can’t be too hard to find someone who will be able too.
I will see who can help me with this and go back to you if I need anything
Thanks

My cards are giving in this would help save them!

Not complaining about FFGs decision, IMO they are totally in their rights on what they decided.

However, could you release the program without the card images, including instructions on how to add your own images into it? In essence, the program is just a card shuffling program.

trevlix said:

That is correct. Basically it is a card shuffling program. That's why I'm suprised lots of people ask me to release it without the images. I'm not sure what the added value would be.

Well, its realy just like i said. Me, and I suspect almost everybody else, arent programers so what seems realy simple for you, is actually relatively impossible for me mostly because i have -no idea- where to start, or even just how to make one these.

But anybody can scan images and then plug them in

Yes, there are other card shuffling programs out there. However, there are nonoe that I could find which would keep track of multiple decks at once.

Perhaps you should genericize it a bit - it could be a boardgame card shuffling program with plugins for different games. The plugins would allow different features, such as setting the rumor card for AH. I would think that as long as you do not distribute FFG IP (text, images, etc) you should be OK. (Again I am guessing here - I have no clue.)

Of course, you're the programmer so its your decision.

But I still have games to play, W40K squads to glue and paint, other projects to program, daughters to raise, books to read, a garden and house that needs work, a dog to train and tons of other stuff to do (like work during the day).

Seriously though, a general program with plugins might be cool, but I'd never find the time to create it.

I'll finish this project for myself first. Then I can think about releasing it or not without causing copyright violations.