The idea behind the project is to provide a board game to allow 'alternative lifestyle' people to play the game and explore/extend their sexuality while respecting their limits.

The problem with creating such a board game is that everybody in the scene has different limits, and 'one-size-fits-most' approach won't work. So, we decided to create a 'computer-aided' game. It means that each player fills some form describing his/her limits and then computer generates 'action cards' which should be printed. 'Action cards' are generated to take into account player limits and preferences.

As 'action cards' are printed, board game is essentially ready and the game itself doesn't involve any computer. It is just usual board game with a printed board, set of printed 'action cards', two dice, and obviously rules. We're also planning to provide game emulator, but this subproject has not been started yet.

As of now, the project is in 'Beta' stage. Version 0.8.0 is currently available for beta testing on a public web server and version 0.8.0 for Windows is currently available for download. We've tried it and found very fun, but there are lots of things to do (see Bugs SourceForge tracker for detailed list of tasks).

Technicalities:

• The project is hosted by SourceForge.net. Many thanks to SourceForge for their great work to support open source community.
• It has web-based UI (in our opinion, pretty reasonable choice for filling forms).
• It is C++ + PHP. CPU-intensive card generation is C++, web UI is PHP.
• It can be run on public server for community, or on local desktop for those who don't want to share info with others. Local version assumes that end-user installs Apache+PHP locally; we plan to make installer at least for Windows that will do it for the user automatically, but it is not done yet.
• Supported platforms: theoretically any, in practice it currently runs on Linux (using gcc to compile C++) or on Windows (using MSVC++ 6 to compile C++).
• PHP part is divided into the very generic library ('spartan' library) and project-specific logic. 'spartan' library has intentionally spartan API, but provides some useful services and encapsulates database specifics from application logic. Currently it supports dbx+SQLite (intended for local installations) or dbx+MySQL (intended for 'public' servers). Among other services provided by the library is a way to transfer data between different supported databases seamlessly.
• Licensing. 'spartan' PHP library is under BSD license, other parts are under MPL v1.1.

The project is hosted by .