Heyo everyone! I hope you had a happy new year! LK weeklies will be resuming their more consistent schedule now that the holidays are winding down. I'm really excited to get back to it. While last year was a productive year for LegendKeeper, I still feel like we could move faster and be better. This year I want to focus on two things: Getting more people to know about LK Development speed Quality of life improvements and polish I think the first goal is simple: LK is a neat thing and I'd love to see more people use it! That means better sharing and collaborative tools, more interaction, etc ..read more

Hey everyone! The last week has been a bit crazy; I moved into a house and then was faced with "new homeowner, old house" events, most of which involved stuff breaking or clogging or flooding. A giant mystical throne overflowing with a mystery substance. Uh... Picture totally unrelated. Keeping Busy at the Keep After much packing, moving, unpacking, plumbing, drying, deodorizing, lock-destroying locksmithing, hammering, drilling, arranging, and re-arranging, this Legend House is slowly becoming a Legend Home. I've got my office set up and I've resumed work on the big Public Worlds update. I'v ..read more

Wow! What a weekend. I had SO MUCH FUN at PAX Unplugged. I spent nearly all my time chatting with vendors and creators. I met dozens of people from various parts of the RPG industry, including publishers, artists, writers, musicians, academics, composers, and comedians. Just to namedrop some of the talented people I met with: 1985 Games, AFluffyGoomba, Alchemy RPG, Alec the Bard, Andre Rivera, AnneTheGnome, Arcane Anthems, Arcane Wonders, Arkenforge, Burning Wheel, CatieOsaurus, Chaosium, Denkles, D&D Beyond, DMDave, dScryb, Dungeon Scribe, FoundryVTT, Free League Publishing, JC from GenC ..read more

Hey folks! Sorry for the late weekly; got a little distracted working on the Public Worlds update. I posted a link to the latest demo of Public Worlds in the Discord earlier this week. The response was great, and of course the limitless power of a community slamming into a new website churned up a few things that needed fixing. You too can check out the demo here: https://lk.quest/demo . Overall it's looking really good! Still a few issues to fix for mobile screens, but really excited to deliver it to you, as we're in the final stretch. PAX Unplugged Tomorrow I'm headed to PAX Unplugged to im ..read more

To those of you celebrating Thanksgiving, we hope you have a great one! Nearing completion of rebuilt legendkeeper.com site Dan and I are nearly done with LegendKeeper's new landing page, from which public worlds will be hosted. This allows us to serve public worlds from our root domain, and give us much more control over how the site is displayed. I'm hoping to get the new site deployed this week. Public worlds I'm working with a few creators with big worlds to stress test and catch all the corner cases for the Public Worlds update. Naturally, this has churned up a few issues that need fixin ..read more

Hey folks, tiny update today! Dan and I are still chugging away at the new LK home page, which will be used to host the public worlds feature. It needs to be a 1:1 match of the current home page, otherwise we risk dropping search rankings and breaking any links out there on the web. So we're being very meticulous! Additionally, a good chunk of my bandwidth is currently being sucked up by my next big life adventure: Trying to buy a house ?. (If I'm successful, it will be henceforth dubbed... the Legend Keep!) I've been saving up for over 7 years now, so I'm eager to set up the LK biz in a spac ..read more

Hey folks! Checking in from sunny (and windy) Copenhagen. The public sharing/mobile MVP (minimum viable product) is 99% done! Now I'm working on deploying the necessary infrastructure to make it work. That includes a new server for hosting public pages and a few other moving parts. (This is probably a good candidate for deep dive blog post later.) I'll probably launch "whole project" sharing first, and then follow it with "single page sharing" in an upcoming update. Sharing single pages has a few nuances around permissions that make it a tiny bit more of a challenge. Of course, public worlds ..read more

I've been hard at work making this new LK client happen! I'm very close to the finish line! Close enough to show you a demo of a public world on the new mobile-ready client. https://staging.legendkeeper.com/app/cl7wblo1rpomg0710dqcg2669/cku5kwapk000203ccuwml4023 (EDIT: Okay, nevermind. The blog renderer makes the link preview look awful everywhere. RIP) If you're on mobile, it should just work. If you're on desktop, horizontally resize your window to see how the app adapts to the space. It's a huge improvement over whats on the production LK at app.legendkeeper.com. Soon you'll be able to sha ..read more

Hey everyone! Got another short weekly update this week. Not a lot of new things to update on--mainly just more of the same. As you can see below, the mobile UI is coming together quite nicely. The mobile UI will launch with public worlds, operating on the "read-only" version of LegendKeeper. Over the coming weeks after the Mobile + Public Worlds launch, the new mobile-capable client will be extended to support editing as well. I think you'll love the increased performance, stability, and responsive UI of the new client. If you've been following the weeklies, you know all this already though ..read more

Technical post ahead! As the public project / sharing link feature is nearing completion, I've been looking for a painless way of deploying it to ☁️tHe cLoUd ☁️. This public-facing, mobile-compatible, read-only (at first) interface for LegendKeeper will run as entirely new app, as described here. It lays the foundation for the next generation of LegendKeeper, and cleans up technical debt that's been slowing me down lately. History When I first started working on LegendKeeper as a side project, LK ran on Heroku. My employer at the time planned to introduce Google Kubernetes Engine for its infr ..read more