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 …

Recent Hexographer & Dungeonographer Reviews Read more »

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 »

Hexographer 1.71 was just released.  It includes a few new features as well as some changes behind the scenes that make it a bit easier to maintain.  Below is a quick summary: The Map Key can now be saved! (Finally.)  …

Hexographer Updated: New Building Icons & Map Key Wizard Overhaul Read more »

We’re planning to make Hexographer even better, but we want your help! Get a free copy of Hexographer for writing up 8 “hex crawl” locations!  (If you’ve already got a copy of Hexographer, feel free to request a copy of …

Inkwell Ideas/Hexographer Hex-Crawl Contest Read more »

[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 »

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 …

Creating Traveller Style Sub-Sector Maps in Hexographer Read more »

As part of testing the latest release of Hexographer (now available; see this post for some details) I’ve put together a giant hex map of Africa.  This represents about 2-3 hours of work in Hexographer.  I wasn’t worrying about being …

New Giant Continent Hex-Map: Africa Read more »

Here is a sample image showing new art & features coming soon to Hexographer: line art for terrain map items (mountains, hill, forests, etc.), Perspective icons for villages, fortresses, cities, ruins, etc., and the ability to draw polygons and ovals.

The last Hexographer update from a month or so ago included a new line style: Railroads.  To try out the new feature, I thought I’d put together a large hex map of the United States based on a map from …

Updated Giant United States Hex Map w/Railroads, Circa 1870 Read more »