GameScape is free. Yes free. It’s been free for over five (six?) years at this point.
As long as GameScape exists it should be useful as a free tool, drawing, basic tokens, basic fog-of-war etc. It’s not going anywhere. I use it regularly and have no plan to turn off the service.
There is one caveat: this is a passion project and I’m paying for it personally. If running the project got expensive for some reason I would maybe revisit this decision. Five years of history has shown me even with regular users, the design of Gamescape makes it surprisingly inexpensive, easy to maintain, and easy to host.
If this were to change, I would give people significant heads up / warning. I would expect to have some kind of map saving (export) in place.
The other caveat is, I don’t have time to work on adding features these days. I get a lot (a lot) of requests for things. I read all of them, but I’m mainly focused on my day job (starting a company) and it really takes all of my time. I occasionally build new releases, but there’s no schedule or plan. I am exploring using AI to add things - but that’s more of an experiment.
The goal of GameScape is to keep it lightweight and easy to use. I think it scratches a particular itch for a certain kind of gamer - and some of you have told me how much you really love it - thank you! That’s enough positive vibes to keep me providing it for free.
Enjoy! If you use it (or even just kick the tires) please let me know what you do or don’t like about it.
-mikepk
