Dice & Dungeon Masters - WIP

So good news . . . update is done . . . sort of.

I haven’t had time to do bug fixing yet. Hoping to have that done in the next few days, but as my time table can fluctuate a lot, I figured I’d give you all a chance to play early and brave the bugs if you like - so here is a link to the bug laden version of the game: https://dashingdon.com/play/starchild/dice--dungeon-masters-preroll/mygame/

Once I have the bugs fixed I will post it to the main file and update here to better explain what is in and not in this update, explanations thereof, and word of what is in the future of Dice & Dungeon Masters.

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So I’ve had time tonight to do some bug fixing and have thus added the game to its usual file folder: https://dashingdon.com/play/starchild/dice--dungeon-masters/mygame/

*************** *The Game Remains Very, oh so very alpha ****************
Now, while some bugs have been fixed, I’m sorry to say there is still a swarm of them lurking about; worse, some scenes do not navigate as they should, some dialogues randomly do not include all the options I know should exist, and worst of all, roaring about like some invincible tarasque, there is an infinite loop that fires off during the combat in the library . . . while I feel all of these are fixable, it is going to take time and it is unlikely I will have them fixed soon. Added to this is that a lot of scenes are incomplete and fragmantery…so, yeah, it’s not very polished. Also, I did not get to do a lot of the things I wanted to do … but . . .

*********************** Despite what the game lacks I’m pretty happy with the progress *****
And I really am. I feel like both the main real world story and the meta story are progressing very nicely. I see a lot of promise with this project and hope and think you will enjoy what is here.

However, as expressed in prior posts, the game will more or less be in hiatus for a while. Now, there might be a chance of a small update here or there, if the energy hits me and I have the time. I’d certainly at the very least like to clear out more of the bugs, get the combat in the library working correctly, make those missing dialogues fire off correctly, and expand a few things . . . but when is very iffy. I’d say it’s probably unlikely I will get one more tiny update done in november, but if I finish my project for nano wri mo eartly, maybe . . . though probably not. I have pledged to get an update for Sense & Sorcery done by new years and my goal is to work on that until completion . . . however, if free time hits me maybe I’ll be able to sneak in an update at some point.

That stated, I think to do good progress on Dice & Dungeon Masters it will require a lot of exclusive time and energy . . . which I don’t have at present. As some of you know I have a family member with a degenerative disease state, which takes a lot of time, energy, and peace of mind from me. My real world job (as you can probably judge from the bits about real world problems in the game) also takes more time, energy, and peace of mind. Add to that the fact that I game less often than I used to due to various reasons, and at present to make the game as good as I want it, a haitus probably has some benefits. I’m hoping that when I return to it as a key project I’ll have more of that lacking time, peace of mind, and energy so the comedy and adventure can flow a lot easier and the game will be all the better for it. While Sense & Sorcery has its challenging points and comedic points as well, in many ways they are less than Dice & Dungeon Masters where I essentially have more than two games going on at once. Of course, no crystal ball on the future - both my future and the future of my country (America) are changing, and as Freedom of Thought is one of the prevailing themes of my creative works (or at least I certainly hope they are!) I do worry about my capacity to continue on with any project if things get really bad . . . but I’ll hope they shan’t and won’t monologue to much on that here, and further I shall hope that I will succesfully finish my projects and get back to Dice & Dungeon Masters eventually in hopefully a year or possibly - and sadly this is probably more realistic - two.

Now, for those that are missing further progress on this project and have a lot of energy for creating something similar, I certainly give you my blessings on that. To be honest, Dice & Dungeon Master’s existence is loosely inspired by Knights of Pen and Paper and Galaxy of Pen and Paper though I never quiet got it the point I was aiming for, which was to have a cool fun virtual ttrpg experience with a DM and players that you could generate in detail. I certainly feel that there are a descent amount of quality RPGs (some of which thankfully have an authentic table top feel to them) out there and a growing presence for ttrpgs in other games, such as visual novels . . . I’d certainly love there to be more games like Dice & Dungeon Masters!

So, in conclusion for now, thank you for playing and I hope you have enjoyed your time at my little virtual table. It may take a while but Lyr/Lyra and Art/Astra and all the others shall someday return, fate willing, and I look forward to continuing to create this game in time . . . when conditions are right for it. There may be a small update at some point; it might be a while. I may add the linear short story section to keep this thread alive and vital during haitus, but, we shall see on that. Sorry for the wishy washiness of it all.

Anyway, until next time, here’s hoping your adventures are bright and your dice are light-Ed

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Good luck with the hiatus, hope you find the time soon!

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Thanks Dragomer, me too!

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Bit of thread maintenance to keep this thread open, but I also wanted to mention that I am leaning towards having a very small update sometime in quarter 1 as I still felt like my efforts this year towards this game fell a bit behind what I was hoping for. If I get enough free time this month I had thought to add in a linear story - and I even have a cool Christmas themed dnd linear story in mind - but unlikely that I will have the time to do it as my work on Sense & Sorcery and it’s linear short story section is still well off from what I want for that update and work.

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Shame the christmas thing didn’t pan out

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Agreed, though there will be other stories, and maybe I’ll get around to that one eventually. Granted, presenting it at a different time of year seems off to me.

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Please don’t forget to import this game to the new website since dashingdon is shutting down, it’ll be a bummer if you accidentally lose the files and for your other games too,I enjoy replaying them once in a while (especially lives of the star child)

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Thank you Fye - I truly appreciate the kind words and enthusasim. That game, despite my lack of progress on it, is probably one of my favorites so far and I hope to get back to it in earnest eventually. As for the transfer process, I am going to look into it. I’ll probably start with Sense & Sorcery as that was the project I was working on when this news hit, but I am eager to save them all. As readers know, I usually place links to my other games at the end of the game . . . it will probably be a bit before those are fixed, but that will definitely be on my to do list. I have off on monday and tuesday, so I’m hoping, barring any family emergency or such, I can get work on the transfers completed by then.

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I now have all of my posted games and my better known non-posted games available via the new site. Starting with Dice & Dungeon Masters I now present the links to these games on the new site, though I should note the artwork doesn’t display correctly as of yet, though with only a few exceptions most of the art work has little functional purpose, so shouldn’t be to big a deal, I hope. I’ll aim to eventually fix the artwork, but might be a while. But enough talk by me, here are the links:

Dice & Dungeon Masters
The game about roleplaying as a roleplayer, yada yada.
Sense & Sorcery
A Regency-Sword & Sorcery mashup.
All the Way
80s/90s teen horror horror supernatural thriller
Super Sorority
College sororities and super powers - what can possibly go wrong?
Lives of the Star Child
Come live your infinite series of lives and see how you can change the world and fate itself.
The Ice King’s Call
A Sword & Sorcery story with an old norse twist

wew - now I am exhausted, but glad to see most of my games are more or less safe for the moment. I still have a few more to transfer over, but really none of the remaining ones were ready for prime time, so they shall need wait a while.

As for this game, Dice & Dungeon Master, I still hope to do a bug fix update with some minor progress sometime this quarter, but probably will be late quarter.

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Damn, I never noticed you had so many games.

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Ha, yeah, I’ve got a lot of projects I really want to complete. While I consider all of these projects viable and alive some of them I haven’t had time to work on for several years. Current goals are to finish up Sense & Sorcery hopefully in a year or two, occasionally make some progress on Dice & Dungeon Masters and All the Way, though if I were to suddenly have a lot more free time I would love a chance to advance the other projects as well. Once Sense & Sorcery is complete I’ll probably try to advance all remaining projects a little and then do some polls to see which ones people are more enthusastic about my making my next main project. While Lives of the Starchild is one of my personal favs, it is also the most ambitious, and if I should make that the next project, it would probably be modular in its approach, whereas some of the other ones would be far easier to move to completion, i.e. The Ice Kings Call and Super Sorority. Dice & Dungeon Masters, while also a very dear project, is also a complex one, which will take a lot more time, organization, and energy, though hopefully bit by bit all of these will move forward, though the pace is in years and more . . .

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As with All the Way, the update for Dice & Dungeon Masters will be pushed back to quarter two. I apologies for the delay. For those also interested in Sense & Sorcery, there should hopefully be an update for that game later this month or possibly early in march.

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