Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Polygon: The parent company of Dungeons & Dragons developer Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, announced Wednesday it is acquiring D&D Beyond, one of the franchise’s most popular officially licensed digital t… Continue reading Dungeons & Dragons Owner Hasbro Is Buying D&D Beyond
Vice reports:
The AI-powered story generator AI Dungeon has come under fire from fans recently for changes to how the development team moderates content. Notably, the player base is worried that the AI Dungeon developers will be reading their porn sto… Continue reading AI-Generated Text Adventure Community Angry Content Moderators May Read Their Erotica
Software developer/sys-admin Hawke Robinson is the CEO of RPG Research, a 501(c)3 non-profit, volunteer-run, charitable organization founded in 1977.
He’s also long-time Slashdot reader kmleon, and shares this story from the gaming-news site The Game… Continue reading Facing Overwhelming Demand, Non-Profit ‘RPG Research’ Looks for Help
It might seem like electronic games and tabletop games are somewhat at odds. But there are always places where the lines are cleverly blurred as with this stat tracker beautifully constructed from a sandwich of circuit boards.
The nature of role playing games is one of deep imagination, putting yourself …read more
Continue reading Building the Scoreboard of Your Imagination
The board game Frosthaven has become Kickstarter’s “most-funded board game on the site ever, with nearly $13 million pledged toward funding the game’s development,” reports NPR. “Only two projects have ever crowdsourced more funding on the site.”
NPR… Continue reading How Crowdfunding Transformed Tabletop Board Games
AmiMoJo shares a report from Polygon: Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast has acknowledged the existence of racist stereotypes in its sourcebooks, and pledged to make changes to ameliorate the issue. In a blog post published on June 1… Continue reading Wizards of the Coast Is Addressing Racist Stereotypes In Dungeons & Dragons
Pixelated RPGs are pretty standard in games like Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, but have you ever seen anything like ASCIICKER? It’s a full-color three-dimensional world rendered with ASCII art and playable in your browser.
For the time being, the game exists as an experiment. There’s no storyline or goals …read more
Continue reading Explore this 3D World Rendered in ASCII Art
Increasingly, ‘Game of Thrones’ has taken storytelling cues from video games like ‘Mass Effect’ and ‘The Witcher.’ Continue reading ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Turning Into a Generic Video Game Plot
CNBC reports Dungeons and Dragons “has found something its early fans never expected: Popularity.”
The days of hiding away in a basement rolling dice and playing “Dungeons and Dragons” in darkness is over. More than 40 years after the first edition of … Continue reading After 40 Years ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ is Suddenly Popular
If you’ve never seen an IBM AS/400 machine, don’t feel bad. Most people haven’t. Introduced in 1988 as a mid-range server line, it used a unique object-based operating system and was geared specifically towards business and enterprise customers. Unless you’re a particularly big fan of COBOL you probably won’t have much use for one today, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth playing around with if the opportunity presents itself.
So when a local IT company went belly up and was selling their old hardware, including a late 90’s era IBM AS/400e Series, [Rik te Winkel] jumped at the chance …read more
Continue reading Blowing the Dust off of an IBM AS/400 Server