Astral Changelog | April Updates

Ashley Warren
Astral TableTop
Published in
2 min readApr 2, 2019

Here’s what’s new this month in our newly released experience!

April 29 | V2 2.1.24

Features

  • 🙌 Players can now leave games… Free at last!
  • 🔘 You can find the “Leave Game” button by navigating to the Game Portal “Settings” tab.
  • ❓ Added a help link to the dice roller
  • 🖱️ Stamping now deselects the asset after placing it, behaving much like drag-and-drop.

Fixes

  • Various improvements to UI elements across the game and editor screen.
  • 🗺 You can now import maps from your vault, not just the X latest ones.
  • 🖼 Maps can be exported as PNGs! (The button works now, we swear.)
  • 👱 Character portrait vault popover can be scrolled through
  • 🗑 When a game is deleted, it will no longer show up in the players game list.
  • “In Area” character header changed to show the map name.
  • Dice Roller & Saved Rolls panes moved into tabs to make the difference more obvious.
  • Hiding & Showing Characters is more obvious.
  • Moving a character with arrows will now no longer force other characters to come with you.

April 24 | V2 2.1.18

  • 🎲 Rolls with odd min/max values now highlights critical properly
  • ➕ Using +/- keys on input no longer zooms map
  • ⌚ Deleted games no longer remind you or your party about your schedule
  • 👻 Fixed a few spooky character problems
  • ➡️ Using arrow keys no longer allows characters to move through walls
  • 🔎 Characters removed from the area are no longer selectable

April 23 | V2 2.1.15

Enhancements

  • 👍 Allow multiple GMs
  • 🗑️ Delete games maps from sidebar
  • 🔇 Close audio player button

April 8 | V2 Experience Released for Everyone!

We officially launched the V2 beta for wide release! Since then, we’ve been making many minor changes that you’ll see reflected here. Be sure to check out our new website (same URL!), www.astraltabletop.com.

April 2 | V2 Beta 2.1.0

New Features

  • 🗺️ Animated Maps & Sounds included for everyone in “Astral Animated Encounters”
  • ⚡ Pre-generate game with sample maps, triggers, sounds, and compendiums
  • 📘 New! Game Master Compendium

Enhancements

  • Hide characters from player view
  • ❌ Remove characters from game (Press Del/Backspace)
  • 🐎 Improve performance of live updates
  • 😎 New logo and UI improvements
  • ⚙️ Game Setting — Restrict player movement/interactivity

Bug Fixes

  • Beacons (double-click) no longer freeze on players’ screens
  • Beacons only appear in the origin area
  • Trigger pane scrolls
  • Minor v2 cleanup

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Ashley Warren
Astral TableTop

Founder of Scribemind.com and StorytellingCollective.com. Passionate about immersive storytelling and innovative learning.