Digital Initiative?

[Kaffis]

Has anything been heard recently about the Digital Initiative's digital tabletop, character generator stuff, etc.? I admit, I've kind of been averting my eyes where I can from 4th Ed. news, because it's so close that I can either drive myself crazy scrounging for bits of everything, or just try to distract myself until it plops into my hands whole cloth, so I could easily have missed updates on the digital stuff.

But what kind of schedule is it on, relative to the core book release? Will we be seeing it go live in a month, or is it going to be later in 2008?

 

[Emirikol]

I just hope it converts well to www.rptools.net.

jh

 

[malcolm_n]

LOL, I read the thread title and thought to myself, "Why are they discussing the conversion from analog to digital broadcasting?" Sorry, I work in the satellite tv industry, so it was funny to me. I don't know a thing about the DDI yet except I'm signing up.

 

[Kaffis]

Hrm. Is this an area where no news is good news?

 

[Morrus]

Hrm. Is this an area where no news is good news?

There's plenty of news, previews and so on. I don't have time to dig it all up though, so you'll need to risk driving yourself crazy by looking at the 4E news - sorry!

 

[Brown Jenkin]

There's plenty of news, previews and so on. I don't have time to dig it all up though, so you'll need to risk driving yourself crazy by looking at the 4E news - sorry!

There really hasn't been much new on the DDI in quite awhile. All the recent stories use the same old demos but the developers keep saying it will be ready in time. Not sure if the lack of new demos is good or bad news.

 

[Lacyon]

There really hasn't been much new on the DDI in quite awhile. All the recent stories use the same old demos but the developers keep saying it will be ready in time. Not sure if the lack of new demos is good or bad news.

I'm a software developer myself. I'm not sure how true this is in the broader development community, but my experience is that making good demos has a high tendency to result in code that breaks as soon as you leave the demo parameters - particularly if the developer is held to the demo schedule over the release schedule. It's often counterproductive.

Of course, lack of a good demo means that customers don't have anything to judge your product by. It's a real catch-22.

 

[TerraDave]

In any case, shouldn't we be seeing it soon?

 

[Kaffis]

There really hasn't been much new on the DDI in quite awhile. All the recent stories use the same old demos but the developers keep saying it will be ready in time. Not sure if the lack of new demos is good or bad news.

Okay. I was just looking for some confirmation/recent reassurance that it'll be out on time, rather than pushed to Fall or some such.

The old demos had me excited enough about the featureset that a lack of new ones doesn't upset me so long as I get to get me feet wet with it (and work it into my campaign) from the start, rather than try to change-up my campaign's style or what have you several months into it in order to incorporate features.

 

[keterys]

The most recent demo I saw looked quite a bit better from the one from a couple months ago, but I really have no idea when it will be ready.

Obviously, they missed their 'Beta Test in April' date