Menyr, which pitches itslef arsenic a “story-telling engine”, is simply a toolbox that lets players make an full integer satellite for their role-playing games, from landscapes to settlements, past play done them. Launched connected Kickstarter earlier this month, it has already blown past its backing goal.

It has been developed by NOG, a tiny crippled workplace who usually specialise successful Unreal Engine worldly and real-time graphics work, and who person worked with companies similar EA and Ubisoft. Here, though, the full happening is their thought and their work, with NOG promising that Menyr will fto players physique worlds up to an tremendous 60 quadrate miles. Here’s a trailer:

NOG accidental Menyr works similar this: archetypal you physique the crippled world, either done procedural generation, utilizing manual brushwood tools oregon a operation of both. Then you bash the aforesaid for castles, dungeons and townships. Then you tin import 3D models and “2D assets” for your characters and different objects (or usage immoderate pre-existing templates), enactment it each together, input oregon download immoderate rules and spell astatine it, either online oregon locally.

It loses the tangible joys of tabletop gaming by making everything digital, of course, but is besides hoping that grade of customisation and possibilities its toolkit offers much than outweigh that.

Interestingly, NOG are advertizing Menyr as thing that volition beryllium escaped to download and use, arsenic its hoped that their attached marketplace, wherever players tin merchantability everything from customized rules to quality models (and from which NOG volition instrumentality a cut), volition make capable gross to support the lights on.

As specified the Kickstarter—which asked for AUD$67,000 and is astatine $AUD$272,000 astatine clip of posting—isn’t really giving you Menyr, but an escalating bid of constricted variation items similar D20s and fancy quality models. You tin cheque retired much astatine the Kickstarter page, which besides has accusation connected worldly similar a closed beta and immoderate of the finer method points of however it each works.