ZEITGEIST Zeitgeist on Roll20 progress

[Tormyr]

Finishing Adv 8 this week. Getting close?

Not close enough for you to go seamlessly over. I am truly sorry for this extended delay.

 

[hirou]

A piece of work that is just out of "almost done" state for weeks and months... I've been there. You have my sympathy despite the scope of this delay, Tormyr. I hope you have someone to offload a part of the work to, this helps a lot when the task seems unsurmountable

 

[Tormyr]

A piece of work that is just out of "almost done" state for weeks and months... I've been there. You have my sympathy despite the scope of this delay, Tormyr. I hope you have someone to offload a part of the work to, this helps a lot when the task seems unsurmountable

Thanks for the kind words. It isn't the work; it's everything else that has jumped in over the last few years to slow this project down. I have hired people several times to help, and most of them have dropped off.

 

[ENNewb]

Hi there, just wondering how far out we might be since the last update? Weeks still? Months?

 

[Tormyr]

1 month. We are on home leave right now. I have been slammed with squeezing a year's worth of doctor's appointments, shopping, and family visits for a family of four into the last 5 weeks and have not had any time to myself. Next week, we are back home with the kids in school, and I plan on getting back to work.

 

[Tormyr]

Back to work now.

 

[Tormyr]

Progress is going well, but I lost two weeks to illness and having to cover for my kids' school run.

 

[Tormyr]

I'm hoping to have this released next Friday. (Fingers crossed.) Here is the coup after the cannons go off.

 

[Tormyr]

I'm not quite done yet. I struggled with Lightning Strike Rescue Op and how to present it best. In the end, I had to undo my first attempt and integrated the ground level and rooftop maps of the keep. So that everyone stays on the same map. After lots of Photoshop work, the maps are integrated. Each area highlighted in blue is a dynamic section of the map for the GM to manipulate. Instead of setting up Dynamic Lighting walls, each room is a multi-sided token with both the roof and the interior of the room. When someone opens a room, you flip the token to show the interior. NPC tokens that are initially in or above a room have a (LL) for lower level or (UL) for upper level so you know where they are starting. I hid a few surprises for this photo.

 

[Tormyr]

What flipping the room's token looks like. The goal is that this very busy environment is as easy to run as possible.