Editing Chapter Master (game) (section)

== The (Actual) Story So Far, a Tale of Truthfulness and Fact ==
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Broadly speaking, the above was bollocks for a time.

It was writ that one day, Chapter Master might actually be in such a state that it may be called... "a game". Prior efforts enabled anons to craft their own chapter and chart a whole sector for them to play around in, but little else aside from that.
 
ASCII? Pah! The hopers of old transcended such nonsense: they were in the age of 100% fully 3D graphics comprising of not one, but TWO full dimensions of dimensionfulness. Let's just say that your corneas would have hexagons burned into them permanently after a couple of hours and leave it at that. Your ears would have been delighted by over SEVEN discrete, different, and unique sound effects ranging from beeps, to slightly different beeps. (Note that this is all sarcasm.  Especially in wake of the current alpha, which has far more than this.)

However, all was not perfect: The attentions of /tg/ were, as they always have been, fickle. For the most part, people departed at almost the same instant that they claimed "oh yeah, sure I can help do <helpful task>". The old forum had 234 registered users - few of them who actually contributed, and far fewer who had any notable commitment to the whole thing. At the moment, for example, it can be relied upon that there will be 2 or 3 people to be around at some point, ready to contribute.

Every now and then, the good old storythread raised the awareness of the game, and some Anons vowed to Get Shit Done. However, sadly, most will find out that they have no idea to code worth a damn and can't be bothered to learn how to do so.

After multiple broken promises from people claiming to work on it with no actual results for years, /tg/ became resigned to the fact that it may never be created, and the people foolish enough to say that they will succeed when literally everyone else has failed were met with suspicion and doubt at best.

And yet...

It was the 21st century, August 9 2014, 12:00AM. For years the denizens of /tg/ had languished in 4chan, despairing that the game would never be created.

But no more. 

<b>Chapter Master is among us.</b>

The time is nigh, and the Alpha has been released. Although promising, it has much to learn. But I believe, Chapter Master can save /tg/

But to do that, all anons must do one thing:

<b>ALWAYS BET ON DUKE</b>

===Tragedies of Practicality===
There came a time when Duke was going to drop the project, but Duke's attempts to find a replacement coder didn't go that well. It turns out that the reason he needed to hand it off in the first place was that he ran out of money and needed to actually support himself and not starve.

===Changing names to dodge <s>the Inquisition</s> GW Lawyers===
In August 2015 it was announced that the game would be renamed to Interstellar Army Simulator 2015 to preemptively fend off legal trouble (read: a GW blackshirt who had grown fond of the game accidentally mentioned its existence where his boss could hear him, then nearly got fired when he tried to explain why GW shouldn't send a C&D order to shut the game down). Other copyrighted terms and graphics will be removed as well, but the game will be made with "unofficial" mods in mind that could easily restore the original graphics and terms as needed.

===The Rebirth===
IN September 2015, Duke released the new "Interstellar Army Simulator 2015" which would act as the basis for the mod while allowing him to avoid copyright problems. A few days later, an anon with too much time on their hands, and far too much dedication to the Emperor for his own good, hunted down every image from the entire game that he could find in the archived threads and the use of Google, and pulled together the visual mod. Chapter Master, if not entirely revived, was at least safe from further legal troubles in the future.

===The End?===
In October 2015, Duke announced that he would no longer be working on the game, his reasons for doing so disclosed [http://pastebin.com/qT9rpU1b here]. (TL;DR: It was a mix of burnout and IRL responsibilities like school/work). But being the cool dude he is, he also released the source code, also contained [http://pastebin.com/qT9rpU1b here]. So now we await a new champion to take up his noble endeavor, to struggle against GWs lawyers and bring glory to the EMPEROR! etc.

<b>ALWAYS BET ON [insert name here]!</b>

===REBIRTH 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO===
Some time ago, a dude by the nick of Journier is currently doing the project now along with Thy Reaper (since 2nd October 2015). Debugging, cleaning and etc. to make it more easy to update (and make it less prone to crashing).

===Chapter Master 2.0===
Chapter Master 2.0 has ceased all development. Flow on the Bay-12 Chapter Master thread (page 218) stated that they no longer have the time to work on it due to freelance work, afraid of GW lawyers, and his view that no one will play it if he doesn't make it "blatantly 40K related." Leaving anons to keep dreaming about the game ever being finished, and wondering which retard thought its a good idea to make forums for a questionably-legal game in the first place.

===REBIRTH 3: THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESSOR===
As of the 2nd of August 2020, a team of two led by SirNuke has started working on reviving Chapter Master and adding to the original vision of the game, calling the project "Chapter Master Restoration". The reason they weren't mentioned earlier is because they apparently forgot to post on the dev forum.

As of the 4th of September 2020, an individual by the name of ndkid on the bay12 forums (Under Chapter Masters old topic), has picked up and put out an Interstellar Army Simulator alpha and Trello.

Also in development - the totally unrelated game by Bitspark Entertainment, Special Space Force. Also visible on the bay12 forums, website and discord.