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Originally Posted by ciaran_skye
Technically speaking SJ Games didn't write it. From what I understand Armin was writing it as a fan utility for years and was approached by SJ Games who blessed it as the official version rather than rewrite their in-house character creation program for GURPS 4th Ed.
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Mostly correct, except I don't believe there was an in-house character creation program. AFAIK GURPS Character Builder was a contracted work as well.
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Originally Posted by ciaran_skye
There is probably a total rewrite of GCA in the stars in the next couple years (Windows 8 drops support for VB6 runtimes) and Armin has states he's seeking out a cross-platform development platform, probably centered around the Visual Basic syntax. (My vote's been on VB.NET with a focus on a .NET subset compatible with Mono.)
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Likely there will have to be at some point. Of course, who knows, MS might blink and include VB6 support in Win8; or the world might end before that in 2012...