Development Update

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well and enjoying life. If we haven't met yet, I'm Bradley, the creator and sole developer of Battle Map Studio. In this update, I wanted to let you in on some exciting behind-the-scenes stuff that's happening with Battle Map Studio, my other projects, and my life.

Battle Map Studio

A few months back, I added multi-headset support for Tilt Five, and the folks at Tilt Five demoed Battle Map Studio at GDC. This month I had another opportunity to demo Battle Map Studio at AWE with Ultraleap. So for the last couple months or so, I’ve been working on a Battle Map Studio demo that showcases Ultraleap's new hand tracking device.

I'm currently working towards comprehensive hand tracking support for the full version of Battle Map Studio, so keep an eye out for that!

While I'm very happy that I'm getting opportunities to showcase Battle Map Studio, it is affecting the regular update schedule. I hope to continue updates in the summer months, but it's unclear how much of my time will be available in the short term due to the next few updates.

Tenure Track

Around the start of the pandemic, a couple colleagues and I started working on a silly professor simulator called Tenure Track that uses ChatGPT to add to the amusement. We just released a WebGL demo that you can play on tenuretrack.org, so go check it out!

Framework

For a while now, I’ve been separating the systems that power Battle Map Studio’s grid, and I’ve been considering how I could use the grid framework for other projects. I thought I might offer the framework as a developer tool, or maybe develop some micro games with it, or maybe use the framework as a foundation for something bigger. Anyway, for the past few months I’ve been working really hard on a proposal for something that, if accepted, should bring good news for Battle Map Studio.

Life

I don’t share much about my personal life in these updates because I imagine that’s not what you’re here for. In this case, since it has been impacting my work productivity (not complaining!), I thought I should mention that I’m getting married in August! While it has been super exciting to plan everything, it’s been a challenge to juggle my work and organize the wedding setup, flowers, food, music, and everything else. Not only am I getting married, I’m also in the process of moving a couple thousand miles away to be with my wife. Again, very exciting, but also time and energy consuming.

I think that once things settle down I’ll be back to my regular update schedule, but I apologize for any delay in updates!

Okay, back to work.

Bradley