In the Fall of 2015, SmiteWorks acquired Tabletop Connect and hired it's creator, Carl Pinder, as a Sr. It should also allow for numerous enhancements with 3D, animation, dynamic lighting and more. The port to Unity should allow for better deployment across multiple platforms, such as Mac, Linux, PC, web and tablet.
With Zeph joining the team, SmiteWorks hopes to tackle even bigger projects, such as porting the code engine over to Unity. His work has been inspiring and has earned him immense respect within the Fantasy Grounds community. Zeph Ponos joined the development team in an official capacity after several years of community development. Over the course of the year, we release numerous products for the D&D fifth edition game system.
In April, 2014, Fantasy Grounds secured an official license with Wizards of the Coast to carry fully licensed Dungeons & Dragons modules. Together, they have helped bring a large collection of game systems and additional enhancements to Fantasy Grounds and they hope to see it grow further as time goes on. John Gregory was another end-user and community developer and he joined Doug in January 2010. After quickly creating custom rulesets to handle his personal Star Wars Saga campaign needs, he reached out to the original owners and negotiated to purchase the company outright.
2009 - 2013ĭoug Davison had used the Fantasy Grounds software since 2008 and instantly fell in love with how flexible and powerful it was. Each of the current owners and developers were individually drawn to this platform and saw it as a way to allow gaming online for any game system. The original owners had a great vision of what online tabletop gaming could be. was formed in 2004 and based out of Espoo, Finland. With the aid of over 150 community developers and partnerships with key RPG publishers, gamers' online experience is tailored to a host of different game systems. Fantasy Grounds allows gamers to play traditional pen-and-paper style roleplaying games. Comes with data libraries that work with the rulesets above for 3.SmiteWorks is the small Indie team responsible for the Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop.