Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After 20 years, it’s now possible for solo players to finish storylines in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft that previously required a group to do an intensive r… Continue reading World of Warcraft Will Now Let Players Do Solo Raids
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IGN: Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has asked fans to please not make “offensive or inappropriate” mods upon the game’s PC release tomorrow, September 17. Yoshida wouldn’t comment on any specific mods h… Continue reading Final Fantasy 16 Producer Asks Fans Not To Make ‘Offensive Or Inappropriate’ Mods
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks revealed at a Goldman Sachs conference that the company has been using AI in game development, including for “Dungeons & Dragons” and “Magic: The Gathering,” and plans to integrate AI further into gameplay, despite previously… Continue reading Hasbro CEO Claims All His Friends Use AI For D&D, Signal To Embrace It
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Since its introduction in the 1970s, Dungeons & Dragons has become one of the most influential tabletop role-playing games (TRPGs) in popular culture, featuring heavily in Stranger Things, for … Continue reading Playing D&D Helps Autistic Players In Social Interactions, Study Finds
The Verge’s Ash Parrish reports: Last week, as a part of the updates to Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition — collectively known as the 2024 revision — the publisher announced that it would update D&D Beyond, the tabletop RPG’s official digital … Continue reading D&D Publisher Walks Back Controversial Changes To Online Tools
Dice are about the simplest machines possible, and they’ve been used since before recorded history to generate random numbers. But no machine is so simple that a little needless complexity …read more Continue reading Spinning Magnets Do Your Dice Rolling for You
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Dropout’s Dungeons & Dragons actual play show, Dimension 20, is getting pretty close to selling out a 19,000-seat venue just hours after ticket sales opened to the general public. To the uninitia… Continue reading A D&D Actual Play Show Is Going To Sell Out Madison Square Garden
Today saw the end of IFComp.org’s 29th annual text adventure competition (now administered by the charitable non-profit IF Technology Foundation). 74 new and original text adventures
competed for a share of the $7,523 prize pool, with the winners anno… Continue reading Text Adventures are Still Thriving in Interactive Fiction Competition – and On Threads
Slashdot reader Mononymous writes: Back in 2019, digital archivist Jason Scott released the source code to Infocom’s classic text adventures. Now the other piece of the puzzle is available: the source code (mostly in assembly, with some C and Pascal) t… Continue reading Source Code To Infocom’s Text Adventure Interpreters Now Available
71-year-old Mark Evanier is a legendary comic book/TV writer. Today he posted on his personal blog that “Forty years ago, I spent about six days (cumulative) of my life writing the pilot script and small-b bible for a Saturday morning cartoon series ca… Continue reading It’s the 40th Anniversary of 1983’s ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ Cartoon