Monthly Stream – August 2020

Starting soon. I am assuming youtube will generate a VOD so I will make that available sometime after the stream is done 🙂

Sophie’s Dice 1.2999999…

Hey, want a work-in-progress dice build and a video explaining big new features/changes?

Couple of things I could have mentioned in the video but didn’t:

• This is not the “Monthly Video” for Patrons who pledge for the Extra Stuff tier. That will come later in the month (and will contain I don’t know what yet!)
• Improvements to dice models and textures means these builds are under the patreon file size limit again, so I can attach them directly to this post!
• No android build this time, I’m still making sure these features don’t break it!
• Dice saved with this version won’t look the same when opened in older versions, so don’t overwrite any dice that you plan to use in v1.2 or earlier!

That’s all for now, I hope you’re well! <3

Monthly Video – June 2020

OK so when I started recording I didn’t know it was going to take me an hour to talk about everything, but you should know before watching:

I talk for an hour about everything.

Timestamps so you can skip stuff you don’t care about:

• 0:00 – Intro, Improved dice models & customisation
• 3:42 – New dice shapes, and tangents about geometry and dice fairness
• 17:25 – Short RPG Dev / The Chamber
• 20:00 – Sitcom
• 25:05 – Assault on the Frozen Fortress
• 28:35 – Divination with Polyhedral Dice
• 30:50 – Echoes of Fargil’s Golabic Technic
• 41:20 – DreamSent
• 52:00 – Short talk about PS1-style RPG before going back to DreamSent

Honestly I didn’t know how much stuff I’d worked on and released this month until I listed everything for the video, but it’s a good reminder (to me) of how I work – some months I can’t get much done, other months I just make so much stuff I can’t even keep track of all it lol. Which is another reason I’m really grateful for is your support – knowing that I have income even when I’m not being as productive means I can go a little easier on myself during my less productive periods and recharge my energy for the next sprint.

Anyway that’s probably all from me for this month so I’ll say thanks for your support, and wish you well in these shitty times. Because you’re awesome and I love you <3

Mystic Ball RPG System 🎱

Hey I’ve been mulling over how to make an RPG system using a mystic/magic ball in a way that could have character skills effect the probabilities of outcomes and it finally came to me, so here it is!

It’s super generic so you can use it for basically anything, but you do need to specify what stats characters can have – but obviously you can lift them from any other system so dex/str/wis/int etc is fine. Just don’t give your players toooooo many re-shake points to allocate when making their characters and it should be fairly balanced (keep in mind half of all actions will succeed before you even have re-shakes)

Update (11/Feb/21): V1.1 – I made a new layout and tried to make the rules easier to parse.

Monthly Video – July 2020

I tried to not talk for an hour this time… but it’s still 40 minutes… sorry! I’ll try to be more concise in future!

Anyway this month’s video I talk about more dice stuff, the magic ball RPG system, and improvements to DreamSent.

Speaking of DreamSent, I’ve attached the WIP manuscript as it is right now (that means it’s a MESS but there are bits and pieces of the actual game in there starting to emerge from the shuffle of mechanics and lore, and I really really like those bits!)