Developer blog
The ideas, experiments and decisions behind the site, and what we learned along the way.
Oct 16, 2026
Central419Long before this site, I built a stats dashboard, a card creator, a database-free prototype and a repository that drew its own images. Each was a different answer to the same two questions: where does the data live, and who turns it into images?
Read the post: My earlier attempts at building an all-in-one webapp for the Dune board gameOct 15, 2026
Central419Before dune.zone there was Tabletop Simulator: the scripts and models I added to the community's Dune mod, the mods I built on my own, and how the tedium of making assets by hand led me to the fundamentals.
Read the post: Building Dune on Tabletop SimulatorOct 14, 2026
Central419How a YouTube recommendation, a Discord server and a lot of lockdown evenings drew me into Dune, and how a group of players writing their own rules led to dune.zone.
Read the post: Why Dune?
