HLO Public API Debuts

[Dragnmoon]

So this allows developers of the online tabletop apps to access HLO? Any word of any of those developers doing that?

[Roadie]

Originally Posted by Dragnmoon

So this allows developers of the online tabletop apps to access HLO? Any word of any of those developers doing that?

I haven't heard of any yet, but there's some platforms that have plugins that anybody can build, like Foundry VTT, which would make it straightforward for fans to make integrations there.

From looking at the API doc, it also looks like it would also be pretty straightforward to make desktop apps, or client-side web apps, that use the API to provide whatever functionality using the character data.

[rob]

Originally Posted by Dragnmoon

So this allows developers of the online tabletop apps to access HLO? Any word of any of those developers doing that?

It hasn't even been out for a week yet, and it hadn't even been out 12 hours when you posed this question. There's quite a bit to digest and implement with the API, so a little patience is called for. Let's see where things stand after folks have a chance to really dig in and make some headway with it.

Originally Posted by Roadie

I haven't heard of any yet, but there's some platforms that have plugins that anybody can build, like Foundry VTT, which would make it straightforward for fans to make integrations there.

That's exactly the idea. We provide a clean way to get the data out. Other tools provide a clean way to get the data in. Then it's a matter of writing the translation layer between the two tools.

Originally Posted by Roadie

From looking at the API doc, it also looks like it would also be pretty straightforward to make desktop apps, or client-side web apps, that use the API to provide whatever functionality using the character data.

I couldn't have said it better myself. That was our goal with the API.

[Dragnmoon]

Originally Posted by rob

It hasn't even been out for a week yet, and it hadn't even been out 12 hours when you posed this question. There's quite a bit to digest and implement with the API, so a little patience is called for. Let's see where things stand after folks have a chance to really dig in and make some headway with it.

Sorry assumed you guys would be talking to the VTT companies in the background, seemed like the smart thing to do while working on this project so it could be implement as quick as possible.

I guess I was wrong.

Edit: That all said I am not part of your company so I don't know what it would take to get something like that done.

[Farling]

Originally Posted by Dragnmoon

Sorry assumed you guys would be talking to the VTT companies in the background, seemed like the smart thing to do while working on this project so it could be implement as quick as possible.

This announcement is really for the VTT companies, not for the end-users.