Genesis 5

Since Anja und I began working on Genesis, we managed to present a new major release of Genesis every year approx. in October. Genesis 1 was exclusive for the german RPG Splittermond. Genesis 2 added support for Space 1889 (Ubiquity) and Genesis 3 brought support for Shadowrun 5 - so far all only in German. With Genesis 4 in 2018 the new RPG added was Coriolis and for the first time multilingual support, which lead to Coriolis and Space 1889 being available in English.

While Splittermond is still the system that most Genesis users play and use the application for, there also is some demand for Shadowrun 5 - although there are popular alternative applications like Hero Labs or Chummer. So I am glad to announce that this year's major release Genesis 5 will support the upcoming Shadowrun 6. The german distributor Pegasus Spiele supported us with the necessary information (For clarification: we don't get paid by Pegasus Spiele - this still is a private fan effort.) to already start the project several weeks ago and I am already working on the character generation code - when I am not bugfixing the latest release.

As my patrons, I will keep you informed about my progress. I am planning a few more posts about details in the next weeks, as we progress.

Regarding the other RPGs already released: 

• Splittermond will keep me busy with bugfixing the 4.1 release for some time, I guess. I am planning a generation code rewrite, but this will get priority, as soon as 5.0 is released (potentially in 5.1 or 5.2). Still, it is highly probable that I already work on this new code in parallel to Shadowrun 6, so there might be more updates on this in the next weeks.

• Shadowrun 5 was removed from 4.1 completely, due to being inmidst transition to the new GUI. But there are still strong similarities between SR5 and SR6, so that when SR6 progresses, I can use that code to repair SR5 support and reintroduce it in Genesis 5. Hopefully in English too.

• Space 1889 still awaits the incorporate the new rules from "Edisons Enzyklopädie", which also would require a partial code rewrite. I haven't decided yet how to continue here.

• Coriolis is stable so far, since there are no further rules beside the core rules. If I remember correctly, there are some talents in "Emissary Lost" that are missing in Genesis, but that is just a minor data input effort.

As for the timeline: My current plan is to release Genesis 5 in October, when Pegasus Spiele releases the german Shadowrun 6 core rules. This release will also include support SR6 in english. My patrons on the Socius layer will get the chance to work with developer releases to help my find bugs.

Thanks for your continued support.