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7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts, software popular with RPG designers, exposed by insecure database

October 27, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Adobe Creative Crowd is a subscription service that gives game publishers and designers access to programs like Acrobat DC, InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: security

Gameboard-1 impresses gamers as the Kickstarter comes to life

October 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In just a week, Gameboard-1 has smashed the $100,000 funding goal with 450 backers.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: kickstarters

It’s a Pickle Rick banana guard… of course

October 14, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This ergonomically curved green cylinder is 25cm long (an impressive 10 inches), 10cm wide and 5cm high. That’s good enough to fit most bananas.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: food, household, rick and morty

Phone PDF: DriveThruRPG launch digital RPGs optimised for phones

October 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 2 Comments

DriveThruRPG today announced a whole new category of digital RPG for the store with the launch of smartphone optimised PDFs.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Andrews McMeel, daniel d. fox, drivethrurpg, onyx path publishing, phone pdf, pugmire, Troll Lord Games, zweihander

Free for any use: 100,000 photo-realistic, AI-created, images of your next RPG character

September 20, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

None of these people and you can use their photographs in any way you want. The artificial intelligence that created them doesn’t mind.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: artificial intelligence, photographs

The Last Gameboard: Is this a board game evolution?

August 19, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An interview with the CTO of a company that may change the face of board games.

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Interviews

Become a 2D girl as DeepFake comes to anime

August 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

A director could change the script of an animation (not necessarily an anime) at the last minute without the need to redraw. You could be an anime character on your Twitch channel.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: animation

Telegram channels for geeks and gamers

August 9, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Telegram is a free to use, ad-free and privately funded secure instant messaging and voice over IP service.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: geek native, ingress, pokemon go

Audible launches Audible Captions

July 17, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Audible Captions uses Alexa voice recognition technology to look up the words being read to you.

Filed Under: Cool Tech Tagged With: alexa, amazon, audible

Reinventing virtual tabletops: Talespire soars on Kickstarter

June 30, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s a duopoly of virtual tabletops in the roleplaying world. There’s the browser-based Roll20 and the software-based Fantasy Grounds. A newcomer, a dark horse in the race, is the DrivethruRPG backed Astral and it is hard to say how they’re doing. There are two main reasons why this duopoly has formed. The first is due […]

Filed Under: Cool Tech, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: kickstarters, talespire, virtual tabletop

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