Tag: Dice Tower

So, I’ve sent a couple of dice tower pieces to some folks, notably folks who are also the kind of people who collect shiny math rocks.

Anyway. Apparently I’ve confused people because one of the pieces I’ve sent is the oubliette (which will be a late release on Pateron) which comes in 6 pieces. I swear it was in one piece when it went into the box, and it’s supposed to be hard to fall apart, but it fell apart.

So anyway, for future reference. How to put together the oubliette:

So, all the parts of the oubliette: the Frame, the Base, Left and Right hand doors, and the gears.

Step one: Put the left and right hand doors into the frame. The left hand door (as you look at it) has a tab that fits into the cutout on the left hand side. Make sure you center the doors so they meet in the middle.

Step two: Drop the gears on the posts so they mesh up with the gears on the doors. The gears are identical, so it doesn’t matter which one goes on which side.

Step three: Drop the base on top of the posts with the slope pointing towards the doors, and push down. It should fit snugly.

Complete! The oubliette will now open and close the doors by pushing on the little tab on the left hand side (your left, looking at the doors)

Apologies for any bafflement I might have caused!

One of my late 2020 projects was a modular dice tower that could be printed up on my 3D printer. The first couple of levels were fun…

And then I decided to go full tilt idiot, and I kept going.

I’m now up to 27 or 28 (depending on how you look at things) unique sections ranging from custom tops, to exits, randomizers, windows, etc etc etc. It really got incredibly silly, really really quickly.

So, like any modern day idiot, I put them up on my Patreon.

So, this is the dice tower experiment, which I’ll be slowly releasing new STLs and CAD files over the entirety of 2021.

Like I said, the tower is slowly being released over at my Patreon, along with other weirdness that is lodged in my brain.