Role playing game software and accessories
Despite going off on tangents like the Random Dungeon Generator project or writing here, progress on Dungeonographer (dungeon mapping software) continues. A video clip demo has been posted to the Dungeonographer site. Keep in mind the software is still pre-alpha, …
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This is the 6th post in a series of map icons. Because each icon is just a 250×250 pixel transparent PNG you should be able to use them with many map software programs or with general image editors. As mentioned …
About a week ago I unveiled my own tile-based random dungeon generator. Now one of the promised improvements is ready: cavern tiles. They are still a little simplistic (I’ll be adding more variety) but one of the nice things about …
Back in college where I was a computer science major there was a brutal class called “Survey of programming languages” (or something like that–it was 10 years ago or so) where you had to learn 8 computer languages (and actually …
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This is the 5th post in a series of map icons. Because each is just a 250×250 pixel transparent PNG you may be able to use them with many map software programs or with general image editors. As mentioned in …
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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Kevin Chenevert at www.RedKobold.com has put together a number of new wilderness map icons for Hexographer. Importing icons is a “Pro” feature in Hexographer. But because like all Hexographer icons they are simply transparent PNG images, you can use them …
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 …
Dungeonographer Preview: Samples of One-Page-Dungeon Wizard and Battlemat Maker Read more »
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 …