We've made some releases over the last few days. Here are the details.
What's coming
We've been analyzing the numbers and we noticed a lot of players are creating characters but don't play the PaperDemon Art RPG further than that. There may be a lot of reasons for that, many of which we're exploring and working on fixing. But one reason in particular may be because most of our community interaction happens in Discord and less than 5-10% of our users actually make it into the discord.
For that reason, we're going to invest in upgrading our forums to make roleplay easier and adding a chat feature to make community interaction better.
A new chat feature was released today in the Inn. Please check it out. If you have a premium membership, you can post in-character as one of your registered ARPG characters. We hope to see you in the new chatroom!
These features are not intended to replace discord. We know discord is a better chat app than anything we can build. But still the fact remains expecting everyone who joins PD to also join the discord is too high of a barrier and we need to have on-site features to better cultivate community interaction.
v67.1.0
Highlights
This release includes a new character generator to help you get started in creating an original character for the PaperDemon Art RPG! It's also integrated into the Character Creator page so you can easily generate ideas. Try it out the Character Generator as a stand alone page.
We've also increased the amount of character drafts you can have from 1 to 3. We may raise it again in the near future if we find we're keeping up with new characters ok.
There's also a few bug fixes and minor improvements.
Changelog
600f8dee ⭐ feat (flags) show how many approvals player has in the queue
07e05594 ⭐ feat (game-characters) add character generator
38f284b4 ⭐ feat (rich-text-editor) add copy paste buttons for greater mobile accessibility
75b0287d 🐛 fix (game-rollers) add triocast characters points to queue request
f273913c ⭐ feat (flags) display user request count on arpg request
1bcb7a15 🐛 fix (submissions) remove dead link to old writing section from writing tags page
v68.0.0
Release highlights
This release includes a new chatroom in the inn. If you have a premium membership, you can post to the chat in-character. A similar feature is coming soon to the forums!
Change Log
77eefbc 👗 ui (chat) refine in-character selector ui
d1043bd 👗 ui (user) show new icon 3 weeks old accts
0bb7855 🐛 fix (promo) fix bug with sitewide promo header not appearing
c0fdd3c ⭐ feat (chat) add chat feature