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Continuing the archive of independent Cool Tech reporting (Archive Page 15).

Free app Game Master Journal gets an update

November 29, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The app provides structured storage for NPCs, cities and loot. You can even define your own custom item, religion, for example, can keep track of those.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: apps

Black Friday: Humble Bundle does a Maps Extravaganza Encore

November 25, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

For Black Friday and Cyber Monday, the geeky discounter Humble Bundle has brought back a cartography package for gamers, artists and world builders.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: bundles, campaign cartographer, cartography, humble bundle, sales

SquareOne the “board game console” makes a Kickstarter play for the future

November 23, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Wizama’s SquareOne quickly met the Kickstarter goal of €50,000 and now has nearly €150,000 pledged as it tries to be the device that claims the intersection of tabletop games and consoles.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: kickstarters

Fantasy Grounds rolls out a sci-fi theme

November 11, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The virtual tabletop program Fantasy Grounds has released a new skin for the software which transforms it into a sci-fi styled console.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: Fantasy Grounds, sci-fi

Atlas Architect: Build your own gorgeous 3D hex crawl

November 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Danial Rashidi is a Swedish computer game designer who’s worked in DICE and on projects like Battlefield and Battlefront. Danial is now on Kickstarter with a “creative world-building” game that’s intended to be a cathartic art project.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: cartography, kickstarters, software

Imagining Among Us bedside clocks

November 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Designer Kim Min Soo has imagined what a digital clock, perhaps something to watch over you from your bedside, might look like in the Among Us universe.

Filed Under: Cool Tech

Selling out! Interactive gaming table scores thousands of Kickstarter backers

October 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s no toe in the water option when it comes to pledges. However, there are no unlimited tiers, either. Everything is selling out.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: gaming table, household

The real-life 4000° lightsaber is scary as hell

October 17, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The Hacksmith takes ideas from movies, games and comics and tries to make real-life prototypes of them.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: lightsaber, star wars

Short film: Percival

October 4, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

It’s hard to tell – which is a good thing – but Percival is a technology first. This is the first film to be made in virtual production.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Geek Stuff Tagged With: jason kingsley, King Arthur, short film

Amazon’s cloud gaming platform Luna will take on Stadia and xCloud

September 24, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There are 50 games in the Luna+ app already, with Ubisoft as a partner, one Sonic title and Control from Remedy Entertainment.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: amazon

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