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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GregoryTechSoft" data-source="post: 5270638" data-attributes="member: 57512">Six and a half years late, I am compelled to add a response. Most of those links mentioned are not functional anymore, so I don't know what others are wanting. Perhaps like the rest of you, I've looked at a number of other generators, but I came to the conclusion that sooner or later I'd have to just roll my own (pun intended). Walter's little applet is interesting, if you can get past the crashes. I myself have been looking at the source code; as an independant developer, I've been attempting to code my own (I'm almost there, too, but in Java so as to be cross-platform). I am doing things little more complicated, however, as you may understand later. Sometime after Y2k, say the next year or so, I happened upon another guy doing his own town generator, by the name of John J Kroetch whose applet was in an archive oh Lord I don't remember where it was. I actually emailed him after using it a couple months to ask a bit more about it, and his response was that the source code to that program was destroyed, so he couldn't work on it anymore; perhaps he just didn't have the time to do anything with it. These two applets have some major differences. John's program was purely a building-generator and list manager, id-est, what buildings exist in the town, seemingly only including the business owner's name, race, gender, etc as an afterthought. Whereas, Walter's focuses on generating hierarchies of people and organizations found in the town (in this context I wouldn't say "town generator", but "community generator"), and there's no way to save the data to edit within the app later. My interest is in incorporating aspects of both into a full application that can allow you to generate, save, load, and edit the information. I'm concerned with handling these aspects, the buildings and the people, because they are intrinsically linked. I wouldn't say so much that it'll feature a character generator, except that to generate businesses I want to generate the business owners, and the workers, and the other townsmen who are the patrons. More info as I develop it (or, PM me, if you're so inclined to discuss).</blockquote>

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