DEVLOG 3: the unexpected devlog (in which i fumble to make a single die)

(and then succeed)

(sort of)

wassup hackers!!! wasn’t really planning on doing a devlog after just one hour of work, but this die is so glorious i feel alive again

every writer faces the decision: should i write poetry, a novel, a short story, etc. etc… so why don’t we roll on it!

this one took a bit of trial and error. i started by making 6 side designs for my die, but the designs took a while to decide on. i ended up drafting:

1. gavel: journalism / article
2. mask: play / scriptwriting
3. pages: short story
4. book: novel
5. quotation marks: essay
6. inkwell + quill: poetry

then it was time to Fusion again. once again, extrude, point spline, and line tool were the LOMLs. but i used box for the base shape

my biggest worry with this design was uneven weight distribution + difficulty with small gaps + supports when printing though! we want our writer choices to be unbiased and easy to set up

so instead of going with my initial plan—to extrude the designs outwards—i decided to cut inward. it looks cleaner, prints cleaner, and is overall more even in weight, i find. dunno how that works, but it does?

anyways, peace! onto the next part of the kit…