I’ve got a second city street generation algorithm looking good. It creates a more randomly laid out city. (Still have lots of work to do: another algorithm, adding random rivers, a possible harbor, city walls, and a bunch more.) But …

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There is a new update to the Cityographer project on Kickstarter.  It includes a couple of random city maps using a very early version of one of the random generation algorithms.  Below is a sample of one of the results.  …

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If you have a need for a PDF of 250 different minis (with great art) spanning nearly 150 different fantasy creatures or if you’re a publisher looking for collections of great color stock art, please do check out the details …

Monster Stock Art & Stand-Ins (PDF of Minis) Now Available Read more »

We’ve been planning our next Kickstarter project over the past couple of weeks, and now we can announce it! Here’s the description from the Kickstarter page: Random city generator and editor for role-playing games of multiple genres & systems. Runs …

Cityographer: A Random City Generator & Mapping Tool Kickstarter Begins Read more »

In case you’re not a regular on Reddit: Erik Mona (Publisher), James Jacobs (Creative Director), F. Wesley Schneider (Managing Editor) & James L. Sutter (Fiction Editor and Developer) have done a lengthy “As Us Anything” (sort of a crowdsourced Q&A) …

Q&A with the “Senior Folks at Paizo” on Reddit Read more »

In the past few weeks, we’ve added a total of nearly 50 new building icons (by artist Keith Curtis), including well over half of those in the past few days. You can see several in use to the right.  They …

City Building Icons Added to Hexographer (Great for City Management Subgames) Read more »

Sometimes you just need to feel loved. 🙂  Or at least know that you’re making a product people like and find useful. Old Guy Gaming has a review of Hexographer which includes this quote, “After looking at Hexographer, I heartily …

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For the past few weeks I’ve been working with artist Keith Curtis (who does a lot of the art for Hexographer & Dungeonographer) on a bunch of new building icons.  Many will be included in Hexographer to improve its city …

What Building Map Icons Would You Like? Read more »

The Coat of Arms Design Studio was recently updated with two new major Pro version features. If you’re not familiar with the program, it is another tool from Inkwell Ideas that allows you to create a coat of arms in …

Coat of Arms Design Studio Updated Read more »

I just wanted to call your attention to the great work Joe Bloch of Greyhawk Grognard has been doing in his “Mapping Beyond the Flaneass” series.  The series is his attempt to create  Darlene-style maps (like those in the 1985-ish …

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