[Updated: Try the tool by reading this post.] It’s not that my map generation algorithm in Hexographer itself is *BAD*…  instead, that approach is just meant to create a map for a kingdom, island, partial continent or at most a …

Previewing a New World Building Tool/Plugin Read more »

I’ve finally completed the last few mad-libs style backgrounds for my web-based superhero generator.  At last year’s GenCon (2010) I saw the Icons rules and loved them and thought the rules would make a great basis for a random character …

Web-Based Superhero Generator for Icons Updated Read more »

One of the reasons I created Dungeonographer was to have a robust random map generator with the ability to fully edit the map after the fact.  Somewhere along the line I got busy with other projects as well as different …

Dungeonographer Gets a (Free) Random Map Generator Read more »

First of all, Inkwell Ideas will have a booth at GenCon in the Entrepreneur’s Avenue area!  As you’d expect, we’ll have Hexographer, Dungeonographer and the Coat of Arms Design Studio for sale.   And we’ll be running demos of each. …

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If you’re not familiar with my DungeonMorph Dice project, here is the main page. I had actually decided to add the card deck option a week or two ago when reading a comment suggesting the idea on a message board.  …

DungeonMorph Dice (Dungeon Geomorphs) adds Font & Card Deck options Read more »

My Kickstarter project’s pledging period isn’t complete yet, but it was able to reach its funding goal within two weeks. (I’ll try not to directly pimp it here.)  I know before I started the project I was very interested in …

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Things have been a little slow posting here because I’ve been busy putting together this project.  I’m very excited to give Kickstarter a try with such an interesting (in my opinion) project.  I’m also very excited to have several other …

DungeonMorph Dice Kickstarter Project Launches Read more »

A couple of days ago I announced the first version of a completely new and different city map generator.  This city generator is much more dynamic than my prior city map generator from a few months ago.  However, at the …

New Random City Map Generator Fixed(?) Read more »

A couple of months ago I put together a template based random city map generator.  Then a few weeks ago I did a random village generator (using SVG graphic in that case.) But I always wanted to do something much …

Toward a Truly Random City Map Generator Read more »

Last month’s Hexographer update (and yesterday’s) included some features to make it easier to create Traveller style sub-sector maps in Hexographer.  Specifically the updates made it easy to add “feature decorations” (small icons or text) placed at different clock locations …

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