Digital Dungeon Tiles Reviews

Really easy to create nice looking maps. As a DM I greatly appreciate this and the recent addition for Roll20 compatible maps makes life in quarantine much more pleasant.

I bought this game to design player maps for my D&D group. This game is easy to use and offers dozens of graphical "enhancements" that can be used to visualize dungeon maps for players. The designers seem interested in expanding the variety of enhancements and respond to promptly to suggestions on the community forums. When I encountered a bug, the game designers worked with me to solve the issue and fix my maps. I really appreciate the personal attention. It's clear the game designers care about their game and building a good reputation with their player base. I highly recommend the game.

Update 12/18: I've used this for several months now, and while the things I love about it still stand, I'm having a hard trouble with saving. I'll make a map, save it, continue making changes, and save it again. I'll re-save over the previous one, clicking 'yes' that I would like to overwrite, but when I close out the program and re-open, my changes are not retained. I've lost a lot of work that way :( . For a while I could save it by giving each save a new name but now each map, no matter what, loses all details and lighting and just keeps the footprint every time I reopen a map from close. Sadly, this makes the product unusable so I've changed my review from 'recommended' to 'not recommended'. Previous review: I love all the extensive dungeon items and tiles! I wanted to create a burial chamber with coffins, offering urns, chests, skeletons and motifs on the wall. To my surprise, everything I wanted was available as an asset, plus more! Also the lighting is awesome, really makes the map come alive. Each object reacts to every light you place in the dungeon, and each light has different brightness according to its size. Once I got the hang of how to move, scale, and rotate items, I was able to build a dungeon for my roll20 game very quickly! If there was a way to search assets, that would be great, because there are a lot of them! (Any expansion packs down the road...? I'm interested!). You can even rotate tiles! I was frustrated at first because I was using 1x1 tiles and each time I put down a tile, it looked the same. I wanted to see some variation in the narrow tunnel I was making. Then I figured out you could rotate tiles and voila! Problem solved. All in all, this was exactly what I was looking for. I wanted a nice looking map that I could put together quickly with pre-made elements, and this software delivered! I can't wait to show my players the map! Our last one was nice, but there was no color, lighting, or textures. This is way cooler :)

I've was waiting for this application, because I wanted to use my Surface Book for D&D campaigns, but this application has a lot of problems if you want to use it to copy D&D maps to 'Digital Dungeon Tiles' maps: Problems: - IMPORTANT: If you create a map, save it, and load it, the application doesn't keep the scale (small working area, huge imported tiles), so the maps will be unnusable... no matter how much you worked on them... - If you want to put a wall, the walls are too wide, 1 square, you can't use a normal wall between tiles because you don't have a the option to paint a 'line like wall' - The doors are useless, you can't set the door as 'open-close' - The 'Fog of war' allows the players to see across the walls - If you save a file with the default options, each saving will add a .ddtm as a extension, so, if you save your map twice you will have yourfile.ddtm and yourfile.ddtm.ddtm I've thought this application will be a professional app, but it isn't, if you want to be a dungeon master using a tablet as tile-system, this is not a valid option...

This is basically a proof of concept beta with no real content. There are a few tiles, you can "recreate" and expand the advertisement map a bit, but as soon as you start to go away from the "4x4" layout the tiles start to look off. The lighting may look nice, but it doesn't make up for the lack of objects to place on the map. You can't even make a battlemap for a simple house ... since you miss most stuff for the interior. There are far better free tools for battlemaps out there.