Season's Greetings!The elves of the TaleSpire art team have recently been hard at work creating a small pack of festive props to bring some Yuletide cheer to your adventures. This pack includes:4-piece light set Misc toys, including a teddy bear, board game, and hobby dragon Sled Rocking Horse Gingerbread House Wish...

Hey all!It's been a while again, and I'm really sorry for the long pause in logs. It's truly been a wild two months!Performance ProfilingEver since we released community minis, you've all made an absolutely wild amount of minis ready to be downloaded on mod.io (seriously, almost 5600?!), this is just incredible! Unfortun...

Greetings all!I want to check in with everyone by talking about "gestures, pinging, and intent." One of the most requested features on our feedback board is Player/GM presence tools: Link  While Baggers was visiting here last week, I started playing around with ways to get this feature in and got a bit carried away.This ...

Greetings all!It's a bit late for the eve of Hallows, but here it is nonetheless: our spooky release for the year: Haunted Library. This is a result of a poll we ran on our previous DevStream, and it is based on Requests over at our request board. Tiles and PropsBookshelf tiles with and without booksTwo chairsWriting des...

Greetings all!We're currently working on wrapping up the scary pack, so we'll have a slightly belated Halloween. Expect it in the first half of next week (if everything goes as planned)(Banshee by Ðwarf)A bit about new player UX and Seats.As I briefly mentioned during the latest Stream, we're looking into how seats are i...

Greetings!The Shogun Set's release included the Shishi-odoshi with a bugged animation. It worked fine when playing inside the Unity Editor but not on the build. It took a while to figure out, and I'm not entirely sure which sequences of events fixed the issue. Which is troubling... BUT!  it should work now.Thanks for che...

Greetings all!Today, we're bringing you the long-teased Shogun Palace, or Shogun Abode, as it has been named. It features approximately 85 pieces across Tiles, props, and Creatures.Some of which are:Set of roof piecesWooden floorsFloor matsExternal wooden wallsExternal stone wallsWhite plain plaster wallsPaper wallsMulti...

In this release we're tweaking the new hide-plane placement logic to be more consistent and preserve more of the details and verticality you all build into your maps. A huge thanks to all the people who gave feedback and examples of places the last iteration produced suboptimal results, your input is invaluable!We'll of ...

Greetings all! I’m still working to get my footing after a year away, but starting to find my stride once more. I’ve been working on the Shogun Palace on and off since it was announced and pushed up a version for testing before the weekend. We’re nearly there, but after some feedback, we realized it still needs more pro...

Allo folks, Yesterday, I exported the Norwegian translations into the new format. This went well. I’m now looking at the developer’s experience of using the system. I hope to obviate the need for a central registry of text entries that the developer has to manage[0]. TaleSpire needs to be able to export a translati...

Hello everyone!Two days ago, we released an update to the automatic hide plane placement logic. With this update, we use more info about minis' surroundings to do a better job placing the hide plane in various situations.Since then, we've had some great feedback (Thank you!). The good news is that it works well in a bunc...

Morning all, Just a quick one from me today. Yesterday, I made a parser for our translation files. Next, I’ll export the (partial) Norwegian translation to this format and try to use it in the game. The file contains a bunch of details that are only relevant to the translation process, so it’s likely that on the fi...

This release improves the automatic placement of the hide plane.It does this by taking into account more of the surroundings of a mini to make better decisions of where to place the hide plane, which should result in more consistently being able to see inside of buildings without manually adjusting the hide plane.See her...

Good evening all, Today, I’ve been working on the translation file format. The goal is for a translator to go into TaleSpire, choose a language, and click export to produce a file that has all the strings that need translation for that language. As usual with human stuff, it’s never that simple. If you like a...

Good morning folks, Work has been steady, if not glamorous. I’ve rewritten the settings system so it’s easier to maintain. I’d hoped it would be a lot simpler, but that didn’t turn out to be the case. There are some problems where it feels like you only push the complexity around. That said, I know I could do a lot...

Hi,Good news! The hide plane placement experiments I discussed in my last devlog have panned out quite well. We found some minor bugs during our internal testing sessions that I've already fixed, and in general, it's getting close to being ready.But now, let's talk about what it even does. First, we need to recap how the...

On the last community stream, someone asked whether Bouncyrock gives us employees time to do our own projects. I said that we don’t have an official policy around it but are always open to any of us requesting that. I’m not sure if it stuck in my head, but I realized having a few study days a month would be really he...

Hello everyone,Since my last update, I've finalized a good number of things on the (creature) tags front and made a working proof of concept of the new search logic. It's looking promising, which is very relieving after so much time has gone into it. The tags are much more consistent, and tag synonyms work well (although...

This is a video of me recently. So I’m meant to be working on dice. I was. And I will. But I was chatting to Chairmander, and we agreed that it was a bit of a shame that we’ve done so much work on the tagging, but you folks haven’t seen any of it yet. It feels like just[0] having the new search implementation wo...

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