Getting geared up for the winter

My absence is being caused by wrapping up the landscaping season with a bang, gang. In the next few weeks, as the weather shifts to snain, the leaves finish their earthly plummet, and the daylight hours shorten, there will be a lot more time for artwork. So, what is on the agenda?

Lessee:

• There are a couple new Old World Style sets in the 'To-Do' bin, one of which is well underway and plays with ice caves. It is a bit of a revamp of the set 6 cave systems, so I will be looking into creating some transition pieces as well. Annnnnd, since I will be creating some transition pieces to go from ice caves to regular caves, there may be more transitional pieces that will be able to be used with other former sets as well.
• More scene additions - this time around, map bases
• Another Inventory Set is underway with A.C. Meadows
• More sculpture pieces that will be available through the Gaming Geeks website
• Gazetteer style maps. 
• And a few more things, but I've not had much coffee yet this morning and still in the process of waking up.

Cheers, Happy Mapping and Hoodalolly!

Inventory Set 1 is up and running at Roll20

Inventory Set 1 by Russ Hapke and Aaron Meadows is now available at Roll20's marketplace: https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/set/659/inventory-set-1

A preview of the items included: 86 items in all, displayed on four different backgrounds each!

Setting up more on the website

For a year now, we've primarily concerned ourselves in promoting work through Roll20.net in their marketplace, and have loved every minute of meeting the staff, the players, and other artists. Now, we are working on beefing up more artwork not available on the VTT site at thegaminggeeks.net.

Playing with the object layer in Tiled

The latest tutorial gives a brief view of using object layers to break free of the grid as well as Tiled's ability to layer within a layer for different elements

Tiled is an open source program that we contribute to every month to support the development team. Check out Tiled at mapeditor.org for more information.  The program allows you to save your maps in jpg and png formats for easy export/import into VTT's like Roll20. Hop on over to Roll20.net as well to see all of the innovative tools the team there has created to your online virtual tabletop experience. 

Create your world! 

Happy Mapping!

Roll20 and PayPal

Roll20 now accepts PayPal! That is all...back to your regularly scheduled programming

Inventory Sneak Peek

Just a few items from our latest Roll20 marketplace set, submitted today for approval by the team. Fingers crossed, we look forward to seeing these little beauties in the marketplace soon. Sixty-eight inventory items, each with four different backgrounds: playing cards, banners, bannered tokens and as map tokens, are in this set. 

Some inventory for your map

Working with Aaron C. Meadows of Roll20 API fame, we decided to try our hand at creating inventory...

...more soon. Stay tuned!