Virtual Combat Cards is nearing half a year of life. So far last release has been downloaded more than 700 times, and the last patch has been downloaded 190 times. More importantly, users have been requesting features, and reporting problems. Progress this last month has been a bit slower than I expected. But nevertheless things are moving on. I have gotten through the necessary procedures to get VCC released as an Open-Source project.

The fifth release of Virtual Combat Cards D&D 4th Edition combat tracker is out . The version number was bumped to 0.90 to reflect the fact that the tool, as originally planed, is nearly done. The most important new feature is the tracking of effect and conditions. Now effects can be tracked individually and those that have time bound duration are expire automatically (such as: End your of Next Turn). This makes tracking effects much easier, avoiding the need of going back and forth and checking if the effects are still in effect.

The first public release of Virtual Combat Cards (version 0.10) came out on 18 December 2008. Since then four major releases and several patch releases have come out. Most important, several people asking for features and proposing new ideas. Since the new release system has been implemented, issue tracking and releases frequency has improved a lot. But the releases notices have become more business and less revealing of the project direction. This post is here to inform the VCC community of what is going on.