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<p>On Monday [Lady_Aleena] posted her first ever module for D&D fans. Today in the CB, [herveus] told us about his module [mod://Weaving::Tablet] which generates patterns for a weaving machine. I thought that was pretty cool, so I tried look up other hobbyist related modules on CPAN. I didn't have much luck with [cpan://crossstitch], [cpan://needlepoint], [cpan://knitting] or even [cpan://pattern]. The last however just had too many hits to go through. [cpan://purl] pulled up a few hits, but they weren't exactly games.</p>
<p>I had a bit more luck with [cpan://baseball], [cpan://football] (N.B. that was by a soccer fan, not an American football fan), [cpan://soccer], [cpan://tennis] and [cpan://basketball]. I even found hits for [cpan://blackjack].</p>
<p>[cpan://music] also turned up a lot of interesting modules (+300!). In addition to reams of modules for various music file formats, there were modules to retrieve Yahoo music ratings, compose music using gestalts, fetch lyrics, and track distribution history.</p>
<p>Under [cpan://games] I found several modules for fans of cards, chess, checkers, bingo, various adventure games, SuperMario(TM), and of course, modules that implement the traditional on-line games from my computer "childhood" - [http://www.paulgriffiths.net/program/c/curworm.php|worms], [wikipedia://hunt the wumpus], and [wikipedia://Rogue (computer game)|rogue].</p>
<p>I have a feeling there are lots more out there.</p>
<p>So what hobbiest modules do you know about? What is your favorite? Have you written one? Did you publish it? Why or why not?</p>
<p>Best, beth</p>