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+# Pathing of Least Resistance
+Sunday, Nov 29 2020,  2:22 PM -  2:42 PM  
+Corwin Brust
+
+We hope the dungeon-mode project will eventually support three primary
+use-cases related to editing/designing, playing and running/hosting
+RPG games.  In a "vanilla" game, characters descend from the "General
+Store" (the one safe haven available) into the dungeon, a (nominally)
+underground labyrinth of unknown dimensions with generally asocial
+occupants and occasional bits of treasure.
+
+Players can track (as long as the "lights" stay on) the location of
+their party of characters via a process we usually call "mapping".
+This has usually involved the dungeon master "calling out" the shape
+of the map level as the party, in turn, calls out their route or
+"pathing" decisions.
+
+    DUNGEON-MASTER
+       "Corridor East-West"
+    PARTY-LEADER
+        "West"
+    DUNGEON-MASTER
+       "Ten feet, corridor ends goes South"
+    PARTY-LEADER
+       "South"
+    DUNGEON-MASTER
+       "Step into an area.  It's a
+        twenty-by-twenty area extending
+       West, with exits in the Western
+       part of the southern wall and the
+       Southern part of the eastern wall."
+              **rolls dice**
+       "Nothing waiting in the area"
+
+Mapping quickly emerged as a focal point for development.  Especially,
+we were to excited to try creating an 'on-the-fly' graphical
+representation of the map that could respond to changing in-game
+circumstances.  (Oops, all your Elves are dead.  Where'd the secret
+doors go?)
+
+During this 20m talk I'll provide a couple of reference points on
+Emacs's image and especially SVG rendering capabilities, then
+introduce a series of proofs-of-concept focusing on our experience
+using core libraries such as \`svg.el' to make them.
+
+As of submitting abstracts, these include
+
+-   "DM map view" - select and render a complete game map,
+-   "play mode map" - progressively render maps based on game action,
+-   "battle-board" - track damage taken by player characters, and
+-   "character-sheet" - a graphical character sheet
+-   "previews" - view map tiles when hovering their draw code in org
+-   "sketch" - a "click-to-draw" experiment
+
+For an advanced peek please see our git repository (but note we're
+moving to Savannah soon).  We'll be talking first about [map.el](https://github.com/dungeon-mode/game/blob/master/src/dm-map.el),
+especially \`dm-map-draw' and helpers.  A few sample game maps this can
+render are available as org-mode documents in the [Docs/Maps](https://github.com/dungeon-mode/game/blob/master/Docs/Maps) folder.
+
+Those interested could compare functions between dm-map.el and
+[dm-draw.el](https://github.com/dungeon-mode/game/blob/master/src/dm-draw.el), which is an incomplete rewrite of the "SVG rendering"
+functions used only by [dm-sketch.el](https://github.com/dungeon-mode/game/blob/master/src/dm-sketch.el) (so far).  Hopefully, it will be
+writing our "sketches" back out to org docs in time for the
+conference.
+
+Note on github:
+The project is transitioning to Savannah.  Please watch for
+redirects/moved notices when using these links.
+
+
+
+
+Back to the [[schedule]]
+
+All times are approximate, and we might shuffle talks around as needed. Please check https://emacsconf.org/2020 a few days before the start of the conference for instructions on how to watch and participate.
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