gaming

Bots/FF Mastermind: ranged robot pets + Force Field shields for team defense. Forgiving, solid solo past lvl 22. Prioritize shields, Leadership/Fighting pools, Mace Mastery epic for soft-capped defense + high recharge via LotG uniques. Slotting favors pet survivability over damage. Incarnates lean recharge/defense; Lore/Judgement are playstyle calls.

Robert rebuilt his 8-year-old Vue D&D combat app in BoxLang, using SocketBox/WebSockets for real-time state. Features SRD 5.2 character creation, turn-based combat with fog-of-war, and a chunked map system with dual-layer tiles and POI markers. Encounter state lives server-side; ~300 TestBox tests cover it.

Robert ported 1983's Zork to BoxLang to demonstrate natural language parsing without AI models. Transcribed original ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) source from GitHub into BoxLang structs—rooms, objects, exits, synonyms, flags—using Claude for verbatim translation only. Parser handles tokenization and verb resolution like Infocom's original, proving vintage solutions remain viable.