Inkwell Ideas has just launched its latest Kickstarter project: Creature & Encounter Cards! There are monster cards, encounter cards (Mad Libs meets the Book of Lairs), maps, a Paper Minis PDF & stock art. The creature cards are: Great stat …

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Posted this update on Kickstarter last night, but some folks may not see the update or missed the Kickstarter: I wanted to give you an update on Cityographer development.  In short, it goes well and a lot has been done, …

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This project has made 1/3 of its funding goal!  Kickstarter has a statistic that most projects that reach this point do get funded.  But we’re also about 1/3 of the way through the pledging period, so it will take some …

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A few days ago I posted an update to the Cityographer Kickstarter page with a bunch of new screenshots.  These show off most of the step-by-step process to create a random city.  There will also be a button that lets …

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Anyone else remember the venerable magazine “Computer Gaming World”?  Well, now there is a complete archive online! It is the work of several years by several volunteers. While doing some research on another project of mine, I stumbled on an …

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Sometimes you just need to feel loved. 🙂  Or at least know that you’re making a product people like and find useful. Old Guy Gaming has a review of Hexographer which includes this quote, “After looking at Hexographer, I heartily …

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Another Kickstarter I stumbled on the other day is called “Crossover Miniatures – A New Superhero Miniature Line.”  I love the idea: customizable miniatures.  In this case, the heads are changeable and it seems one can add a cape or …

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So my prior Kickstarter’s (DungeonMorph Dice) rewards have been sent to all backers.  (I do need to wrap up the matching PDFs, but that’s nearly done and it wasn’t the primary purpose of the Kickstarter.) I am half-way through inspecting …

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A couple of days ago I posted a couple of screenshots from a new project I’ve begun.  Today I’ve made enough progress that I have something people can try out.  [BTW, See the comments for updates.]  Here are the caveats: …

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[Updated: Try the tool by reading this post.] It’s not that my map generation algorithm in Hexographer itself is *BAD*…  instead, that approach is just meant to create a map for a kingdom, island, partial continent or at most a …

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