[Gm-Tools-announce] GM Tools 0-1-0 released.

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GM Tools is a toolkit for Game Masters in all types of role playing games. 
This is the initial public release of this project which I have been 
developing (alone and in the dark) up until now.

The initial release is a snapshot of the project before moving the cvs control 
to sourceforge. It provides binaries (linux) of the various modules and a 
tarball of the cvs exported source. GM Tools currently provides a random 
campaign element generator, a playable text based adventure game and a 
character sheet management program. Work is well under-way for a fractal 
terrain generator, a solar system modeller, a magic spell builder and a 
combat system manager.

GM Tools is built upon a library wrapper system to enable porting to different 
environments and platforms. It also includes a layered user interface to 
manage user prompting, menuing and display management. These items are built 
as separate modules and can quickly be assembled as a staring point for new 
projects (see the current version of combat) or used to improve portability 
of existing projects.

If you intend to download this release please read the release notes. For more 
information about the modules in GM Tools see the overview in the projects 
documentation. Priorities for current development are:
0) Set-up the project on sourceforge.
1) Remove absolute path information from the source.
2) Create a windows binary distribution.
3)Repair modules that depend upon the svga libraries.

For more information see the overview: 
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=23141&group_id=110974