Archive for the ‘heraldry’ Category

Coat of Arms Visual Designer Updated

This tool is perfect for creating a coat of arms for your character, NPCs, countries or other organizations in your game. (I hope it is anyway.) The software now has a much nicer and smoother default shield shape, a more curvy name/motto scroll and 15 new charges. To the right is an example of the [...]

September 24, 2009 ·  · No Comments
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The Coat of Arms Visual Designer Gets a New Home, Updated

The coat of arms visual designer has moved to a new website at http://www.inkwellideas.com/coat_of_arms/ The new website allows for more interaction and other features. A new version of the Coat of Arms Visual Designer has also just been released. The major new feature is more robust support for counterchanging.  (Counterchanging is when a charge (symbol, [...]

February 18, 2009 ·  · One Comment
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Top 5 2008 Essays @Inkwell Ideas

A day has already passed into the new year so before it gets too much further allow me to highlight a few of my favorite essays here from the past year. One of my most popular essays (and in this case it links to a full 4000+ word article) based on traffic is Worldbuilding: Religion [...]

January 2, 2009 ·  · No Comments
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Coat of Arms Visual Designer Updated Again

The Coat of Arms Visual Designer has gained many new features lately. If you are not familiar with the designer, it allows anyone to quickly create a free coat of arms in minutes. You may want a coat of arms for a knight or noble character, an important NPC, a kingdom, state or organization, or [...]

December 20, 2008 ·  · No Comments
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Coat of Arms Visual Designer Update

My Coat of Arms Visual Designer project is improving steadily.  In the past few weeks I’ve added support to quarter the shield, do counterchanging of ordinaries, add and customize a name or motto on the design, save the design as an image on your computer, nearly doubled the number of graphics available and more. I [...]

September 12, 2008 ·  · 6 Comments
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Coat of Arms Creator Update

I’m ready to put make the link to the Coat of Arms Creator publicly available.  In this message I’ll list some caveats, give out the link, ask for feedback and give you an idea of what’s next. Caveats I’m calling this a late alpha release because there is still a lot I want to do. [...]

August 6, 2008 ·  · 9 Comments
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Coat of Arms Designer Requests

Note: the Coat of Arms Design program is now available. Read more about it at this link. As mentioned in my prior post, I’m nearing the first public release of my Coat of Arms Design software.  I’m still planning on making it available next week.  But I’ve got two requests at the moment for anyone [...]

August 1, 2008 ·  · No Comments
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Coat of Arms Design Web-Based Program

Note: the Coat of Arms Design program is now available. Read more about it at this link. For the past few months, I’ve been hard at work on a Coat of Arms web-based computer program. (In addition to writing articles here, writing other software, etc.) I’ve had several people alpha testing it for the past [...]

July 30, 2008 ·  · 4 Comments
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