InfinitasDM

Edit, but original review below. After using this application for several sessions, I finally decided to ditch it. The interface is just too dang clunky, and it really isn't that hard to have a picture open up in full screen on a second monitor. There are also just more tools out there for this kind of task than there used to be, and the fact that this one isn't being updated any more is a deal breaker. The biggest issue though is that when this app is full screen, I can't even open a webpage on my laptop because it will cause the mapping program to crash. At the point where I was bringing a second laptop to DnD night because I couldn't use my primary one to look up monster stats and character sheets, I realized how ridiculous it was and decided to switch. There's still a lot of potential here, and I hope the Dev comes back and supports it for those of us who paid for it. This is a super difficult thing to write a review for. I needed something that would allow me to have my GM information on my laptop while broadcasting a player map image to a TV that we're using as a digital map surface. We're putting our minis and everything on the TV, so I don't give a rip about tokens, monsters, etc in the app itself. I just want a map with fog of war so I can just scroll the map instead of drawing out all of Storm King's Thunder. Seriously....even the very first intro chapter has a map that fills up about 20 dry erase maps. This app technically fits that bill. It works, and is pretty smooth. It even has cloud saves for my campaign file, so I can work on the maps from my laptop while I'm away from home or my desktop when I'm there. I might wind up using the little notes field, but I mostly keep everything in DnD Beyond and want this for mapping. That's where my recommendations end. If you value a smooth interface that wasn't obviously made for a tablet, look elsewhere. Hell, if you want this app for a tablet, look elsewhere because the app no longer has the ability to cast to a Chromecast device, making the app 100% pointless on Android (doesn't stop them from selling it on the Play Store though). Nothing about the interface for this program feels optimized for a PC, and everything around the periphery just feels like an amateur coding project. The launcher for it that runs at startup even still has a ton of keyboard/mouse commands that are obviously for some kind of shooter game, or at least, I can't figure out when I'd use the "fire" button in this app. When you're trying to upload a map image, it adds these tokens for scale, but since you can't actually move the tokens around, you end up just approximating how the map scale is going to line up, which is whatever since I just zoom in and out to make it fit on a TV anyways. If I sound negative about the app, it's because there is so much potential here for this to be the only mapping app I need to run my games. As it is, it is just way too much of a mobile port to be a great PC app, but since the mobile stuff DOESN'T WORK any more with no estimated time to fix, just drop the mobile crap and make a good PC version. Because all I needed it to do is display a player map on one monitor and a GM map on another, this works for me. If that's what you need it to do, then I recommend it.

Cannot recommend this game from my experience. Program would crash on every startup and after uninstalling/reinstalling and clearing cache with no change I just requested a refund.

This program has been a godsend to me as a GM. It is not game specific, meaning I can use it across multiple table-top RPGs. It does require some time to make your maps, but is amazing for a GM who likes to be well prepared for their session. While it requires prep time outside of your game session, in game it streamlines the experience by removing the down time involved in hand drawing your maps, erasing, and hand drawing again. Further, you can leave everything in place inside the program, whereas with the hand drawn maps, you have to erase and redraw everything if you don't want your maps to stain. Over all, this program has been a HUGE boon to my tabletop games and my players love it!

I use this program for the two games I run weekly. My groups now have zero interest in running without using them, as we use a Duchess gaming table, with an LED tv for our battle map. Infinitas is dead simple to use for my purposes (I am not using a lot of advanced features), as I am taking pre-generated maps, importing them (by encounter/area) within the respective 'worlds' (campaigns.. hell's rebels and giantslayer), then using the split display between the gm view on my laptop, and the PC map view on the LED battlemap. I have tried to use other programs to get the digital maps on the TV, but all of the ones I tried were too complicated for my tastes; I do a lot of prep on my own, and this program does exactly what I want - fog of war, PC/digital-battlemap, etc. I've never had a performance problem as I have read others have had here - the program is snappy. My only complaint, if there even is one (as it is so minor) - is there's no "square" option for the fog of war eraser. Getting into corners while erasing (whether via mouse or finger) can be dicey on the fly, if I don't want to reveal a room next to the one I am currently erasing.

This doesn't even work. Many of the features are designed for a touch screen, and if you don't have one they don't work. There is no instruction manual, the link on the creators website is broken. This is a bad port of an unfinished and unpolished phone app. I tried to get a refund immediately, but Steam refused. Don't waste your money.

After using this program getting my campaign set up it was easy to use for the most part. There were a few features that took a little research to figure it out but nothing that wasn't in the guide. Overall good program. Looking forward to using it on my next session! Good job for being a small developer.

Works for what i needed it for, Not perfect but close enough. It does a secondary display output of the map/image that you can hide things from the players but the GM can see and edit. I am using it for a Projection onto table Pathfinder game. Being able to see the maps and move about them really add to a game. Being able to hide paths with a Fog of war is the main feature of this program for me. So Pros. Import maps/images Fog of War Secondary Screen output for players. Placeable markers Needs Improvement. Fog of war placing/errasing, Needs indicator of brush size. Map scaling, Token seems to always be smaller then inital scaling shows. Hold time to palce icons, Need to be less or none at all for PC. Cons. No way to rotate map in program. Requested features. Some way to snap back to a set scale/scale of map. Paint area indecation. Placeable Notes. Tokens that repsent NPC/Items, Such a sword/bow/staff npc tokens and Chest/statue/door/ tokens.

Ever since I'm using this app, my game are a 100% more organised! I can actualy have all my notes at a fingertip AND have a map to show my pc since the fog of war helps me. I dont need to have my pc draw the map and lose precious game time describing a room size and dimensions. I can also display my maps on a screen to make my player battle on a tactical map (I dont have the budget for that but someday) The drawing tools is kind of lacking and I dont use it often. The buttons are not that much useful to me neither but still they're here if I ever need them! I love the dungeon blank space filling it helps me save time on drawing less little lines while focusing more on the plot of my adventures. Another good thing is that all of my notes are in a same place with visual cues so it's easier for me to actualy find them on a map than in endless folders... I really like this app and recomend it to any Dm who want to have a better organisations of their notes,

i got it to see how good or bad it was and i am farely please with it all be it there is some things i do not like. first off i do not like the pencel tool with its patrens tho neet and good to have it needs to have a pencel shading patren for it to be exeleant. second it needs a snap to grid as with out it making dungeons is hard yes you have a line tool but when you can't make your dungeon exact as you have it on paper there is no point. a feature i would have is if loading a black and white image have it ask if you would like it recreated in the program as that would be awsome. other then that i find this program vary good to use and i would also like a custome color option for the pencel.

I greatly enjoy using this program for running my DnD game. It allows me to have a fantastic way to use digital maps, with the subfolders being a great touch.