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Looking into welding a hollow steel d20 dice aka icosahedron.
There are three factors that are dependent on the final result:
- thickness of the steel sheet metal,
- length of the equilateral triangle, and
- diameter as twice the circumradius.
Looked at sheet metal thickness of 2-5 mm and triangle length of 75-200 mm where the end resulting weight is 0.78-13.9 kg without the reduction/addition of welding and using steel density of 0.008 g/mm^3. The diameter respected to the triangle length is 143-380 mm.
Published 17 March 2025
e505 with Michael and Michael – stories and discussion on AI technical & security challenges, a Metallica augmented concert, Dungeons & Dragons and much more.
Michael and Michael get things started off while Andy is away with a discussion on the security challenges and technical complexity for AI implementations for Siri and in upscaling video. They then turn to another set of AI game generation and playing experiences using Pac-Man and Super Mario Bros. There have been many such stories in the past years where the level of AI sophistication has been tested by either developing game code or leveraging machine learning to play a game.
Moving into the augmented experience world, Michael R gives his firsthand impressions of the new Apple Vision Pro Metallica immersive concert. He was very impressed – listen into the episode for the specific vignettes that were most intriguing to him. This spurred a conversation between Michael and Michael about ways to potentially interact with such immersive experiences in the style that the 1983 game Dragon’s Lair used to highlight choices for the player. Take a look at the YouTube video below for this game mechanic. In another story, Lowe’s Home Improvement is using the Apple Vision Pro to help you visualize your kitchen design. This also reminds the co-hosts of similar experiences from Ikea.
The team then heads over to the Pokemon Go Gym to exercise the story the recent sale by Niantic of the game (and the game’s data) to Scopely. Michael and Michael imagine how in-game rewards could generate immensely valuable (near) real time location data collection. Last, the team wraps up with a couple of Dungeons and Dragons stories – one on the tabletop augmented experience and another on a colossal D20.
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Selected Links
AI
9 to 5 Mac article: Apple commenter John Gruber launches blistering attack on ‘rotten’ Apple over Siri vaporware
Vice article: Netflix Used AI to Upscale ‘A Different World’ and It’s a Melted Nightmare
The Guardian article: ‘A lot worse than expected’: AI Pac-Man clones, reviewed
Games at Work e504: Can you Digg It? for fly.pieter.com
Boy Genius Report article: Claude-3.7 outperforms other AI in Super Mario Bros, but it’s still no gamer
Games at Work e225: Ah-ha, it’s AI! for AI playing Q*Bert
AR
MacStories article: Metallica Is Coming to the Apple Vision Pro
Wikipedia article: Dragon’s Lair
9 to 5 Mac article: Apple Vision Pro demos expanding to new Lowe’s stores
Games at Work e336: Pancaking Robots for Pancake “furniture as a service” and Ikea
Apple App Store: Magic Room: LiDAR Environment
AR / VR Games
TechCrunch article: Pokémon GO maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B
404 Media article: Saudi Arabia Buys Pokémon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
Games at Work e503: Death Watch for Scaniverse
Polygon article: After years in development, D&D’s Unreal-powered virtual tabletop still feels off
Hello Mastodon! I'm a power engineer who is trying out solo game development and on the way to release Power Network Tycoon – a game where you build and manage your own electrical grid with real physics simulation.
If you've ever wondered how power systems actually work (or why they fail), this might be your jam. I built it to be technically accurate while still being fun. To say it's been a challenge is an understatement
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2429930/Power_Network_Tycoon/
#GameDev #IndieGame #Simulation #Gaming #Energy
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Tindie post: Massive Light Up D20
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Michael Martine
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My new d20... A few test rolls show that this die really likes to roll high. I'll probably use it as a player but maybe not as DM. 
#d20 #polyhedral #ttrpg #geek #pathfinder #DnD
Looking for an online group to join. I'm US east coast timezone.
#ttrpg #uvg #uvg2e #oga #osr #nsr #MorkBorg #Knave #knave2e #D6StarWars #2300AD #foundryvtt #AlienRPG #Coriols #gm #rpg #numenera #cyphersystem #gamenight #d20 #liminalrpg #electricbastionland #UltravioletGrasslands
Happy Tuesday! Here are the new items in stock.
Want to play a kobold with a rocket launcher? D20 Modern can help with that.
Monsters and Ratmen for D&D 3e, a microgame, and some classic adventures.
When 3rd edition D&D got around to remaking Deities and Demigods, Instead of listing over a dozen pantheons with lists of gods with monster like stats, they concentrated on just a few pantheons and explained ways to build your own pantheon for your campaign. One of the pantheons is just the D&D cosmology. It looks like they went back through Greyhawk, modules, monster manuals, and pulled together some of the more iconic deities.
In true D&D fashion, the deities are just a mish mash of different ideas without much holding it all together.
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/130333/Deities-and-Demigods-3e
Coms Open! 
Hello dice.camp neighbors! Intro time.
I'm a wargamer and role playing gamer coming back to both this year after decades away. (With a few unsuccessful attempts along the way to get my kids into RPGs.)
Wargaming: #Battletech in middle school, then #40k in college. Returned through #WarhammerUnderworlds and #OnePageRules to learn I prefer skirmish games, leading me to #WarCry and #KillTeam.
RPGs: started with Basic #DnD, then #BardGames, #Palladium, #WarhammerFRP, #d20. Now enjoying #FateCore.
It's National Dice Day, here in the US.
Roll em' if y got em'. 
I had some interesting items come in last week, some D20 Fanzines and pocket adventures. These adventures are great to put in your bag or pocket so you are always prepared if someone wants to game.
More fun with #d20 rendering. This one is animated.
This took about 16 hours to render. Would have taken less, but I had to do it all on my CPU, because #Blender has broken ABI for AMD's HIP when you have rocm 6 libraries (which I do, on Fedora 41). That'll be fixed at some point. GPU ray tracing works for the most part, but specifically smoke and fire effects cause a segfault.
#Blender3D #3DArt #TTRPG #DungeonsAndDragons #Dice #Art
Playing around and rendering some fun D20s.
#Blender #Blender3D #3DArt #DungeonsAndDragons #d20 #TTRPG #Dice #Art
Happy Caturday.
Mit dem Baby-Kater Findelkind auf der Schogetten*Con. 
Er übt schon fleißig würfeln.
#caturday #catsofmastodon #rpg #dice #d20 #w20 #wurfel #rollenspiel #penandpaper #friends #weekend #cat #cats #katze #katzenbaby #kitten
When you let @micah choose the "candy" you hand out to trick-or-treaters.... #Halloween #NoTrick #D20 #DND
Who is gaming this weekend?
Here are the new items in the #etsy shop. More superheroes than you can shake a stick at, a very fun introduction to the Third edition game, and some Dragon Lords for D20.
After 10 months of streaming, I present to you Ndăkaga, the Voice of the Dragons, a version of the Draconic language for d20 fantasy. https://youtu.be/3KAL4ldbDv8 #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg #d20
