Now Crowdfunding: The First AI-Enhanced VTT
With DALL-E and ChatGPT under the hood, you now have a powerful VTT that can literally generate much of your graphical and written game elements for you. Welcome to the future of the VTT.
Find out how you can take part in the development and launch of this new kind of virtual tabletop system.
Join the Future of Virtual Tabletop Gaming with Pandoren Game Studios
Support Our Crowdfunding Campaign and Get Lifetime Access Plus a Lot More!
Why Support Pandoren Game Studios
- Innovative Software: Revolutionize your virtual tabletop gaming experience with AI assistance, full programmability, and more
- Eagerness to Collaborate: Join the design discussion directly with us as valued holders of the Founding Game Developer Lifetime License
- Valuable Supporter Perks: Lifetime game developer license, lifetime Campaign & Asset Store deep discount, lifetime early feature access, ability to cast your vote on feature initiatives, hours of one-on-one developer support with building your games, featured visibility for your games and groups, and more
- Community Focus: Join with us in building a thriving community of passionate gamers and entrepreneurs working together to launch something significant
A Truly Novel Virtual Tabletop
A virtual tabletop, or VTT, is software that allows your group, no matter where in the world they all are, to gather around the game table and play your pen-and-paper, tabletop role-playing games (TTRPGs). For this purpose, Pandoren Game Studios is building GuildTable, pushing the boundaries of what a VTT is and can do.
At its heart, a VTT typically displays a gameboard, or RPG map, upon which player character (PC) and non-player character (NPC) tokens move around a predefined grid, allowing your group to interact with the story. Add to this a full audio and video conferencing experience – and you’re ready to feel like you’re physically in the room together while problem-solving and having a blast.
But as you’ll soon see, GuildTable is so much more than this.
Features
Forged from the Shards of iTabletop…
GuildTable is iTabletop’s spiritual successor – only much better. During iTabletop’s heyday, it offered a deeply media-rich platform for storytelling, in-game video conferencing for face-to-face play, a layered Hi-Fi music and sound effect system for building immersive ambiance, a virtual room system so you could lead one or more players into private rooms to talk privately at any time, an insanely powerful asset sharing system, and much more.
Admittedly there were a few drawbacks as well – like lack of a basic, no-frills whiteboard, no automatic image resizing when uploading, no rules engines for common RPG systems, no support for Android or iOS mobile form-factors, and ultimately Microsoft’s sunsetting of the Silverlight platform on which it was built.
Fortunately, GuildTable takes advantage of all we learned from our customers over the years, filling some gaps while adding many novel and powerful new features into the mix. GuildTable is the iTabletop we always wanted it to be.
Natively Cross-Platform
GuildTable compiles down to native apps for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS, making it playable on desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Native apps mean both higher performance and greater technical longevity. While game development takes place mainly on desktop form factors, running and playing the game happens on both desktop and mobile platforms.
Everything’s Programmable
All objects in your game, including the game itself, can easily be programmed using Proteus™ – our proprietary graphical, no-code programming framework. As such, you can program any imaginable rule system or even an entire epic game engine – without being a professional developer. This changes everything.
The Power of Thingies
We call any object we, or you, create – a Thingie™. Every Thingie, be it a character token, an amulet, a room, a map, a journal, a die, a deck of cards, or a jukebox for example, starts as one image file, and can hold any number of additional images, sounds, videos, documents, whiteboards, web links, Proteus Logic Engines™, and more. Thingies can even hold other Thingies. Ponder that for a minute…
Ainsley™ – The GM’s New AI Artist and Writer
We’ve done the work of learning how to coax AI into creating the exact image and written content we need for our scenarios and campaigns. To save you double-digit hours learning how to generate the high-quality graphics and pros you need for your games, we’re building Ainsley, a simplified yet intuitive AI front end for you, with dropdown items and checkboxes, and a smart backend that composes your prompts properly and submits them directly to DALL-E and ChatGPT for you, with the resulting content automatically available in your asset library. AI should have always been this easy.
Wade through the Darkmire™ Fog of War
No RPG game system would be complete without a powerful fog of war mechanic to simulate the feeling of being entangled in darkness as you explore your surroundings and engage enemies in battle. We’re building our Darkmire Fog of War system to be quick and easy for GMs to set up and manage, and to have the intelligence to offload much of the work and provide an eerie effect. With a hook into the SoundTapestry music and ambiance system, the feel of the game can change as players move in and out of the darkness. The end result is a more immersive and engaging play experience.
Light Your Path with Firelight™
Any Thingie you create can be a Firelight. As a GM, use Firelight together with Darkmire Fog of War for a highly realistic effect. A Firelight can be a flickering sconce on the dungeon wall, a lamppost along the path, a torch your character carries, or anything else you can imagine. Use images and videos to make your light appear however you want, and control it using intensity and falloff settings. Set other Thingies as switches that can turn the light on or off manually, and optionally link the switches to game events for an automated approach.
A Tapestry of Sound
SoundTapestry™ layers and mixes music and sound effects in real-time, streaming an immersive, cinematic sound experience to your group. Music and SFX are triggered by a number of events, such as entering a new place, starting a battle, or rolling high or low, to name a few. Like everything in GuildTable, each instance of SoundTapestry can be programmed with Proteus, for an incredibly distinctive result.
Unlock your creative potential
This is not only a crowdfunding campaign, it is also a crowdsourcing campaign. When you join as a Founding Game Developer Licensee, you’ll be offering your knowledge, experience, and creativity surrounding a form of gaming that you know and love. Pandoren Game Studios wants to surround itself with the best minds in virtual tabletop gaming, in order to design and build something far beyond what is available now. We are specifically looking for you – with what you have to offer. Please sign up today so that you’ll be part of our first online group meeting and start to make a difference.