The Studio Behind the Magic

Dingbat Designs by Tovas is a boutique creative studio building digital tools, apps, and experiences for the Second Life Gorean roleplay community — from the inside out.

Dingbat Designs
💕 Gorean Builder
✨ SL Creator

Built from Inside the Community

Dingbat Designs started as a passion project — one person who saw gaps in the tools available to Second Life's Gorean roleplay communities and decided to fill them, one lovingly crafted app at a time.

As a member of the Second Life community since 2002, Tovas began her journey shortly after beta concluded and the grid went live. Since that time, she has been mastering the tools of the world, often struggling against the limitations of the interface to create the experiences our community actually wants.

After developing hundreds of internal scripts to make roleplay lives easier, those solutions are now being offered to the public for the first time through Dingbat Designs. The name remains a love letter to the quirky, the creative, and the unapologetically fun — exactly what good software should feel like.

See What We've Built

Our Core Values

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Authentic Gorean Knowledge

We don't guess at the culture. We live it. Our tools reflect genuine understanding of Gorean dynamics, roles, and community norms.

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Unapologetically Beautiful

Functional software can be gorgeous. We refuse to choose between useful and delightful — our products are always both.

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Community Shaped

Our best features come from community feedback. We listen, we iterate, and we build things people actually asked for.

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Privacy & Respect

Roleplay is personal. We handle every profile, every match, and every message with discretion and respect.

How We Got Here

The Beginning
Dingbat Designs is Born

A dream and a lot of late nights. Tovas starts building the tools she's always wanted as a Gorean roleplayer.

Product Development
GorMatch Concept Begins

The idea: a personality-matching app built specifically for Gorean dynamics. The research begins on roles, archetypes, and compatibility.

Launch
GorMatch Goes Live

Full stack built — Google Apps Script backend, Cloudflare R2 photo storage, HUD integration. GorMatch opens to the community.

Now & Beyond
Growing the Studio

More products in the pipeline. More tools. More love for the Gorean community. The Dingbat Designs journey is just getting started. ✨