Dungeon Map Doodler

Games

tabletop rpg map maker

SHOW HN2020

126points
15comments
#498of 3,028 in 2020
Top 17%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.32.

Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful and fun tool for running D&D games

    From 2 comments
    • A great tool, I used it a fair amount while running some D&D games for family. If I were to make one request, it would be the ability to export to PDF, with the ability to choose…
      Shared404 on HN
    • This is really cool!!!
      apalmer on HN
  • Saves files locally rather than to the cloud

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work. It is refreshing being able to save to my harddrive given all this cloud BS nowadays.
      rightbyte on HN

Objections

  • Did not render correctly in Firefox due to cached old code

    From 2 comments
    • Unfortunately it seems it's unusable in Firefox. It probably looks and works really well in Chrome. https://imgur.com/a/0mKPg7e
      reificator on HN
    • Yeah I remember it came up on HN previously, but that was several months ago so I'm surprised it stuck around in the cache that long. Hard refreshing fixed it, thanks. Sorry…
      reificator on HN

Requests

  • Export to PDF with selectable paper sizes

    From 1 comment
    • A great tool, I used it a fair amount while running some D&D games for family. If I were to make one request, it would be the ability to export to PDF, with the ability to choose…
      Shared404 on HN
  • Tile set support for walls and textured floors

    From 1 comment
    • Any chance for some kind of tile set support for better walls and textured floors?
      xwdv on HN

Alternatives named

  • One Page Dungeon Generator, Azgaar's Fantasy Map Generator and other generative map tools

    From 2 comments
    • In the same theme, and if one needs some help in seeding ideas, previous discussion about One Page Dungeon Generator: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21362382 Also,…
      throw0101a on HN
    • I have this tool in the list here https://opinionatedguide.github.io/design/generative-art/ if anyone wants to see more things like it
      vegadw on HN

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