Cool Dice

So as I work on my app I generate *a lot* of dice, when I see some and think “ooh that’s cool” I usually save it to a folder in my project called “Cool Dice”. It now has two years of dice styles that I think are nice to look at, and I figured I’d share them with you!

Just unzip the file below into your custom dice folder, and you can explore them and if there are any you like, copy them to your own dice bags (or just copy the styles to your own dice).

<3 🎲

Extra Stuff Video Update – July 21

So I did *record* this in July, but after it uploaded I lost all energy and kind of passed out for a while. So it’s once again appearing the month after, sorry!

Extra Stuff Video Update – February 21

This video ran long again, sorry! Feel free to skip as much of it as you want, the main things covered (all dice-related) are:

• I finished refactoring 
• You can do dice expression statistics things
• New dice shapes/examples
• “Redefine” roll condition to roll one die as another kind of die
• check() functions
• I am tired
• Update coming next few days (hopefully)
• Next on my to-do list is dice networking
• Thanks for your support!

<3

General Update

Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve made an update that all tiers can see, the reasons for that are long and boring and mostly concern me being in a funk without enough energy to make posts. But today, I have energy! So let’s catch up!

Safecracking Simulator Keys:

First of all, I sent out itch/steam keys for my safecracking sim to everyone! Check your messages to get yours, if they are missing or broken let me know!

RPG Work

I’ve not given up on the RPG I started last year, but not having a story is a biiiiiig hold-up for that. I could jam something passable together but since it is my dream game, and the story is the foundation for this kind of game, I want it as good as it can be. To that end, I stole a technique from David Lynch and I’ve been writing ‘moments’ on index cards (pictured above!) that I can eventually string together and form a cool story. This is a slow process since I can’t just force out ideas I like without growing to hate the work, so in the mean-time I’m doing other stuff too!

Safecracking Work:

I’m working on an update for my safecracking sim, it’s not exciting, but I wanted you to know <3

Dice Work:

There is a substantial update to my dice app in the works, I’ve been adding A LOT of new dice shapes, new face images, and giving the dice expression system a REALLY POWERFUL update. There’s also a bunch of fixes and improvements. Kind-of annoyingly, this update will probably be indistinguishable to most people, but I’ll know myself that the app is way better 🙂

Again, sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted an update! Sometimes I have no energy, sometimes I have energy for a little work, and it’s unfortunately rare for me to have energy for work AND posting – but even when I’m silent I promise that your support is helping me get cool things done! Make sure to check my discord server for the day-by-day updates if you’re interested 🙂

Anyway I do have a few posts planned to fill you in on my process on some things and also to explain the guts of things like my dice expression system, which is secretly the most involved part of the app.

Anyway, thanks for reading, for your patience, and for your support! I hope you’re doing as well as you can be! <3

Sophie’s Dice v1.42

New version! The biggest changes to this version were mostly improving code behind-the-scenes, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t new stuff:

• Expression sampling & statistics!
• New dice shapes & examples!
• New roll condition: “Redefine”!
• New check() / compare() function!
• The operator die is BACK!
• SO many fixes!

The documentation & changelog will be updated when this build goes live everywhere else (I’ve not written that stuff yet, and wanna give you this early <3)

Thanks for supporting me as I work on this everyone, I know it’s not exactly cool or glamorous to still be working on this silly app, but I feel like the end is in sight (at least in terms of working primarily on this) – once I have network play there really isn’t much left to compell me to keep working on this as much… I hope! Anyway, I really appreciate and love all of you and I’m sorry I don’t have more/other cool things to share right now! <3

Linux build is here (it’s a little over the patreon filesize limit, sorry!).