Generating fantasy maps
Creative
procedural map generation
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How HN took it
26 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.70.
Idea: 9 for, 0 againstExecution: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Interactive map generator is impressive and fun to explore
From 4 comments
I have nothing super valuable to add except to say: this is totally awesome. Good for you for exploring this and sharing it with the world. I just emailed it to 3 non-techy…
aarondf on HNThis is amazing! This motivates me to do so many things... alas, none related to my day job.
yawz on HNThis is sooo cool! Thanks for sharing!!
kaik on HNThis is very neat, I hope I will have time to dig into this at some later date. Great job!
TDL on HN
Useful for hobby worldbuilding and RPG adventures
From 3 comments
This is such a great tool for hobby world designers. I know for sure that I will use this when I create adventures. I made multiple tools for random world generation but never…
abelhabel on HNThis is an amazing use of Python. I'm OK with .py but terrible with images so this random generation amazes me. I will be passing this into my DM!
jscardella on HNThis is really cool. I'm going to bookmark this and look in to it more in-depth. I've always wondered about how to generate maps for a game. Good job.
vblord on HN
Source code shared openly under MIT
From 1 comment
He gives you his source on github. I think that's enough right there. EDIT - Oooo and it's MIT...
andrewclunn on HN
Convincing islands and natural-looking results
From 1 comment
very cool. tried to see if it could make sense of islands and such, and the results are extremely convincing: https://i.imgur.com/LXNtZLH.png
LoSboccacc on HN
Objections
Mountain rendering looks off
From 1 comment
Everything looks great except the rendering of the mountains.
moultano on HN
Requests
Add roads, forests and region-specific name lists
From 1 comment
This is truly fantastic, both the project and the interaction. If you want to continue with it, it seems there's so much more you could do, too: roads, forests, altering…
bbctol on HN
Add terrain types such as deserts and tundras that affect city placement
From 1 comment
This is insanely cool! I'm totally making a conversion of this into Elm my next pet project. One nice thing to see would be generation of terrain types (such as deserts or…
michaelscott on HN
Generate higher resolution maps directly on the page
From 1 comment
Well done, thanks! BTW, this is a quick way to generate an higher resolution map on the site. Open the developer tools, remove the width from .note (it's the container of the…
pmontra on HN
Use real topographic data to test town placement
From 1 comment
Would be neat to give it real topo maps and then have it generate the towns and see how well it matches reality. Great work!
stephenmm on HN
Questions
Can it produce town- and city-scale maps for existing settings like Forgotten Realms?
From 1 comment
It's great for creating your own world. However if you play D&D, chances are you play in Forgotten Realms. In that case you already have the large-scale map, and you want town-…
bartvk on HN
Alternatives named
Amit Patel's polygon map generation
From 1 comment
Very cool! This reminds me of Amit P's polygonal map generation project, which you should look at if you're interested in this kind of stuff.…
loeber on HN
Open Geo Fiction
From 1 comment
If you like making fiction maps by hand (but not fantasy maps) - have a look at this great mapping project: Open Geo Fiction: http://www.opengeofiction.net From the about page:…
chippy on HN
Donjon fantasy world generator
From 1 comment
Wow. I might need to spend some time making a clone of this but geared towards worldmaps like https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/
eximius on HN
Dwarf Fortress terrain generation
From 1 comment
That is super sweet. It looks sort of similar to how Dwarf Fortress generates its geographies. You should look at how that game does it because it also involves creating a whole…
kylepdm on HN