It has been a pretty big week here.  There was an update about Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) on Tuesday.  Yesterday a whole new wilderness icon set done by Kevin Chenevert/RedKobold was posted. Now there is a new tile-based random dungeon …

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Alpha testing of Dungeonographer is a little less than month away (I hope, life schedule and other projects permitting) but I want to share a couple of the special features of Dungeonographer via samples. One-Page-Dungeon Wizard The first sample is …

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Lately I’ve been thinking about dungeon geomorphs.  Hack/ has a great tile geomorph based dungeon generator.  A few other writers have been posting new geomorph tiles in other styles and have been posting interesting ways to use them. I’ve long …

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Those of you who like Hexographer may know that I’ve been working up a Dungeon mapping equivalent called “Dungeonographer” over the past two months.  It was something that I had considered for months, but when I received my 8th request …

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Last night when I came home there was a dead snake on the sidewalk with no visible reason why it was dead.  As I walked it back to the woods to throw it away I came across a baby bird …

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I’m trying to keep making progress on other projects, so today I just have a bunch of additional menu items for the random menus in the Random Inn Generator: Kito’s Spiced Potatoes Spinach Mashed Potatoes Pickled Beats Boiled Leeks Artichoke …

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I had never heard of the MMORPG Ryzom before but yesterday I saw an article noting that the game’s source code and artistic assets were “open sourced.” The source code was released under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU Affero General …

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I’ve made a pretty significant upgrade to my random inn generator project.  It now offers randomly generated menus!  About two weeks ago here I asked for suggestions based on the medieval themed menus I was able to find on-line. A …

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Several months back I put together a Javascript based Magic Item Shop Random Inventory Generator (for Fantasy OGL) because I hadn’t seen anything exactly like that and I thought it would be useful.  As I moved on to other projects …

Magic Item Shop Random Inventory Generator Moved & Improved Read more »

Hopefully it isn’t too late to look back at 2009.  At Inkwell Ideas, the specialty is to give others tools and ideas useful for RPGs. Although December was a little slow (working on the largest Inkwell Ideas project, Hexographer, as …

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