Update : TOME Beta 0.3 : Schemers
Update : Tome Beta 0.3 : Schemers
What is available in this release?
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0.3 is a pretty big update. It is also the point where people who pledged at the Daring Fox level will get access to the Software. 0.3 will be released for Beta testers first, then, after checking if everything seems stable enough, we’ll send Early Access keys.
Intrigues, roles and managing them
The biggest thing added to Tome in 0.3 is the new concept of plots and roles. They were a big part of the Kickstarter, and, after some big improvements, they can now be used in Tome.
The main concept of these is that you can create one, then place it in different moments of your narration. For example, you can easily plan a plot in Chapter I that asks whether the players pick up a cursed object, then, in Chapter IV, place it again and plan consequences if they did.
Following this, when narrating Chapter I, you can state if they did, and even add details. In Chapter IV, you will see the decision that was made in Chapter I, as well as any comments you added:
There are three options there: Yes, No and Other. You can take “Other” as a strong note to self to read your comments, because something unexpected happened. Roleplaying is not a binary, and unexpected things happen sometimes.
Roles do something similar, except they help you track the “Who?”. Who picked up the cursed object?
Both can be created here:
Then inserted here:
And managed here:
In the future, we may add more similar options.
The Memos and the Tags
Memos were always going to be a family. Until now, all the memos were free memos, which allowed for talking about everything and anything in a non-specific way.
We now have a few different memos you can create :
- Character
- Location
- Object
- Organization
- Player
- Free
They’re all specific in their own way. For example, you can attribute a Character to a Player, or to a role as described above.
We’ve planned these memos to stay, as much as possible, on one screen, with thematic subsections you can navigate to in one click. We believe this will improve your experience when narrating, as navigation requires minimal scrolling.
There’s a lot to discover here. Enjoy!
The tags have also been improved. They now have an icon and a specific color so you know what kind of page you have tagged. There’s also a field in all memos, called Relationships, that you can use to tag other relevant memos.
Other improvements
We’ve improved the landing page in Tome quite significantly. We’ve changed Arc icons to clarify whether they contained chapters or scenes, and whether they were linear or non-linear. We’ve also improved the UI in other ways. Many bugs have been fixed.
The future
The roadmap has been modified significantly. 0.3 did some things that were planned for later due to popular demand. This ended up moving a few things around in terms of priority.
Roadmap
Highest Priority
- New Feature : Custom Zones
- Improvement : Prerequisites and States for Story Pages
- New Feature : Maps System
- Improvement : Map Pins
- New Feature : Handouts
- New Feature : Notes System
- New Feature : Play with Multiple Tables
- New Feature : Widgets
- New Widget : Story Alerts
- New Widget : Notes Manager
- New Feature : Tokenboard
- Improvement : Various Writing and Browsing Quality of Life Additions
Lower Priority
- New Feature : Thematic Highlighting Tools
- New Widgets : Basic Time Management
- Improvement : New Intrigues
- Improvement : More Tokenboard Tools
- Improvement : Non-Linearity Improvements
- Improvement : Data Tables
- Improvement : New Index Pages
- Improvement : Various Writing and Browsing Quality of Life Additions
Stuff to look forward to…
- Many ideas we plan to revisit after we’re done with the above…
- Several planned Quality of Life improvements
- In-app tutorials
- Backer Specific Themes and Icons
- VTT Integrations
- Four Chapters that concern TOME out of of the six Stretch Goals we reached :
· Games Bazaar GB
· A Coin Flip CF
· Masters of Time MoT
· The Librarian Lib
In the future, these codes will precede any relevant feature in the updates or roadmaps
This roadmap is indicative and non-exhaustive
