New Story Dice Stickers for iOS 10

icon-webThinkamingo is happy to announce Story Dice Stickers now available in the App Store!

Using stickers in Messages is a brand new feature in today’s iOS 10 release.

Liven up your text conversations with stickers! Our Story Dice application is traditionally used to help brainstorm plot element for creative writing projects like journals, short stories, novels, and live storytelling. Use stickers to suggest ideas in your conversation. Maybe you are co-writing a story or coaching a writer and you need to share a picture rather than a specific word to open up the idea process.

Save time by using stickers when you just want to suggest an idea! Just peel from the preview window and stick them in your conversation!

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Updating our Android Writing Apps

 

We’ve updated all of our Android apps on both Google Play and the Amazon Appstore for Android.

Lists for Writers now has all the latest lists. The new search feature lets you search any list – perfect for finding a phobia or term from a genre list. The new shuffle feature randomizes the order of any list, making it easier to find some inspiration.

Story Dice now has all the latest die faces, bringing the total up to 170 different pictograms.

All of the apps also got some substantial internal updates, which should resolve a few cases where things didn’t quite work. Also behind the scenes, we moved all of the apps to Android Studio (goodbye Eclipse!), made some good improvements to our build workflow, and added additional test devices.

 
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Lists for Writers 2.0 is here!

We are proud to present a beautifully redesigned Lists for Writers iOS app, available today in the App Store. l4w2-iphone The first thing you will notice is the new look. The list categories expand and contract with a pinching gesture. This new organization makes it easier to navigate the increased content.

Yes, we’ve tripled the content, going from 37 lists to 100+! We’ve got all sorts of new lists and we’re always interested in feedback about what lists you’d like us to add.

We hope you enjoy the new look and all the new content! Happy writing!

Name Dice for iPhone / iPad updated to 1.4

We’ve updated our Name Dice app for iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch. This is an app that helps writers come up with character names and ideas for fictional writing. It’s very popular with writers from middle school / high school language arts classes to adult novelists and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) competitors.

Name Dice now includes a new history feature where you can swipe backwards to view the last dozen rolls. We also updated the UI to improve the appearance on iPhone 5 and iOS 7 devices.

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Story Dice 1.5 Update

We’ve updated the iOS version of Story Dice with 30 new die faces, a history feature, and improved its appearance.

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The top request we’ve received for Story Dice is to add a history feature to see previous rolls. Done! We’ve added it so you can see the previous dozen rolls! To see a previous roll, just swipe backwards until you get to the roll you want. To roll again, just tap the screen. Voila!

We’ve also added 30 new die faces for a whopping total of 170 pictures! Awesome!

NaNoWriMo on the iPad

I love my iPad. This year, I’m going to do something crazy. I’m going to leave my writing dungeon and get out and about while writing for NaNoWriMo. November weather in Florida is notoriously stunning, so I’m going to attempt to soak in some of that and still get some writing done.

I am pretty handy with my iPad onscreen keyboard, but for this lengthy task, I will be using a combination of bluetooth keyboard with Dragon dictation. Some of you might argue that Dragon is not very accurate, but I will argue right back that the goal of NaNoWriMo is get 50K words of a novel done in November. Once December rolls around, I can start the editing process.

I plan to do the actual writing on my iPad2, and use tools on my phone to help me get past my sporadic and annoying bouts of writer’s block, as well as helping me in the editing process in December, which I will do completely on my laptop.

Here are my favorite mobile apps for NaNoWriMo!

  1. Lists for Writers – Hands down this is my favorite. Yes, I’m biased because I helped make it, but it was born out of our collection of lists from years of working on NaNoWriMo! It has always delivered in time of need!
  2. Story Spark – This app generates scenarios. Most of the time, this app just sparks another idea for the story I’m already writing. However, I have used this to write short fictions to get in the groove or get unstuck.
  3. Name Dice – You can’t beat this free app for realistic name combinations. I use this all the time to create placeholder names when I can’t decide on a final name for a character. You just never know when the perfect name will come up!
  4. Story Dice – Not sure what happens next in your story? Roll the story dice for a random idea/object to weave into your plot.
  5. Spooky Story Dice – This is a special edition of Story Dice with 25+ slightly more sinister die faces included. Great for horror writing or even a lightly spooky tale for kids.
  6. Spy Tools for Kids – This is a new one for me to use with writing projects. One of the tools in this app is a fake ID maker. You can create driver licenses, passports, and spy agency IDs. I plan to use this by creating passports and/or driver licenses for all of my characters. They are really easy to make, and I can save the images to my camera roll to use elsewhere. I might even print them out for fun!

I use a few other apps including Evernote, Dropbox, and Flipboard. If you aren’t already using these all the time, get with the program and get them! Free!

Good luck in November!

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Spooky Story Dice Updated

Just in time for some scary storytelling, Spooky Story Dice has been updated to fully support the iPhone 5 / iPod Touch 5th Generation and iOS 7.

Spooky Story Dice is a seasonal and more compact version of our app, Story Dice. It has over 70 pictures to generate spooky elements in your stories! From the “More” menu, users may change the settings to show 1-3 dice on each roll. Great for a middle school or high school language arts or English classroom Halloween activity.

Spy Tools now updated for iPad and iPhone 5

We’ve updated our Spy Tools for Kids app to fully support the iPhone 5 and iPad. We have also improved the appearance of the UI and fake identification cards.

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We removed the Facebook and email sharing options for picture from the disguise kit, identification kit, and night vision camera. This provides a more child-friendly experience and we’ve determined that most users saved pictures to the camera roll and shared them from there.

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