#wayscape

Good Morning, Adventurers!

We have been hard at work fixing and improving upon the system, and I am here to gleefully detail our progress.

As I am sure a few of you have already noted, we have a shiny new loading screen which brings every visitor directly to a full-window map. No more are the days of the 600x960 pixel applet! In addition, we have dropped our login page for what we feel is a much more excitingly direct experience. Now, everyone - regardless of whether or not they have a Game Master’s account - can view the world’s progress. Of course, only Game Masters can update the map and view private objects, but we felt that there was something lost without players having the capacity to join in on at least some of the fun! If you look to the account dropdown menu, you will see that we have plans to eventually implement a party system, further improving upon the player experience, but for now we hope that this will do.

Chris has also quickly done a once-over of the basic UI. None of this is final, and there is much work to be had before we feel that we can call our interface “done,” but we hope to get your feedback every step of the way so as to deliver with a product that is what you want, not what we think you want.

I have also begun to create map links to areas of the codex, allowing users to access basic information on key locations (ie, Emsaffir, or the Ruins of Avalyse) simply by clicking on them in the map. At the moment, every such location is marked by a pin - click the pin, and you will be brought to our glossary page. In addition, all links from within the map now open in new windows. If you experience difficulty with this, disable your popup blocker. We are still working through the bugs, but currently the popup blockers on some (but not all) browsers catch our links. Still, we felt that this was preferable to needing to reload the map every time you wanted to return from a link.

Beyond this, we have been doing lots of behind-the-scenes work. I have personally re-written the entire code for the event log, opening up new doors for custom-filtering the content. My next set of tasks involves putting this to work, developing an object-subscription system (teased at with our menu up top).

As always, we remain committed to bringing you the best, most epic living campaign system ever created, and welcome any and all feedback on our forums. We want to build this with you, not for you.

Greetings, Adventurers!

Namy here, with a new update and progress report. We had a wonderful time at Indiecade East last weekend, but have been hard at work to bring you a better playtest. The focus on this most recent update is navigation - up until now, you have all been using a less-than-perfect stand in for a system that we had been planning from the get-go, and I am pleased to unveil a much improved experience.

First of all, you can get rid of those pesky arrow keys. Click/Drag navigation is here! Navigate the map by pulling at it, just as you would expect from your favorite online map system. In addition, 'x' and 'z' are no longer necessary for zoom - we have officially implemented scroll-wheel zoom, and fixed the bugs previously rendering the UI buttons useless. This, in addition to many other, more subtle changes, should provide an all-around smoother experience for anyone wishing to explore the Shrouded Isles.

We are also beginning to turn our gaze towards interface feedback. While we still have much work ahead to bring you the perfect user experience, you should begin to see improvements regarding incomplete fields, loading times and the like over the next week - along with a new iteration upon the alpha-build's visual interface, and other fun tidbits.

Finally, we have begun to generate a social media presence. You may now like us on Facebook, our follow us on Twitter and Tumblr. As always, we welcome feedback in the forums. Show us some love, and tell us how we can make your campaign setting better.

Greetings Players, Adventurers, and Game Masters!

Welcometo the official Wayscape devlog! We have a long road ahead, and wish to shareevery bend of the journey with you all. From glimpses into our designmethodology, to the tech laying underneath, to discussions about the world of tabletop RPGs, multiplayer systems, and persistent universes, we hope to entertain, inform, and engage with our prospective community. We want Wayscape to be amazing, and can only do so with your help.

We highly encourage those wishing to jump right in, or simply engage with us and our community of testers, to start by exploring our forums. From there, you can give us feedback, bug reports, feature requests, and interact with other users to really get a taste of the full story-world - after all, how better to familiarize yourself with a new locale, than to talk to its inhabitants?

Otherwise, just sit back, follow us here and on our twitter feed, and let us know what you think. Together, we can create worlds otherwise unimaginable.