For example, land extending to the corners, or to the left or right edges, and not extending to the other side, or Polar continents seem impossible.Īll the other features are at least decent, though. Maybe five percent of the time it throws out something nasty, at least if you’re hoping for a map of the whole world. Looks like this one is fractal based, and has a heavy bias toward one of three basic continental arrangements: single supercontinent, two continents (east and west), and bunches’o’islands. I love procedural world generation tools.
#MAD GENIUS GENERATOR GENERATOR#
Because I am still not going to draw my own maps.Īh yes, I remember this one from years ago, though it looks like they’ve made a lot of progress – that link to the town generator is awesome. Like I’m going for daily drawing prompts. You can plug in the list, and then it will randomize it for you and you can work your way down it. I’ve also changed the color and line settings a bit.Īnd finally! if some friends give you *coff*drawingprompts*coff* or names, or if you just have cool words picked out for using as cities states and boroughs, this might be a handy random generator of such lists. Images from this generator can either be png or svg, and what? I have artist brain! The one above is a medium city, below is a large. The small, medium and large apply to city size, not image file size. As you’ll see from my screen shot, there are plenty of ways to add or remove details! You can either leave the districts unmarked (if you mouse over them, the name will pop up) or mark them as I have here. This one is a little simpler than the world map, but still offers a lot of different detail you can use. The other cool little generator is for Medieval Fantasy Cities, and it will give you a new one as soon as you load the page. For a lot more support and other user input, there’s a subreddit that exists for this little program. I suppose with the heightmap painter and name editing I could. I have no idea if I will ever use this, because I am a pantser and by the time I need this I will have already set the terrain and names. It even shows you what real language the names are generated from. You can even edit the terrain! This is interesting, as you could possibly do stuff that wouldn’t work at all in real geology, but hey, it’s a fantasy world! It’s all held together by magic!Īs you can see here the possibilities for customization are vast. The map generated the names you see above, which are interesting, but you can also enter all your own. You can set the maps to show heightmaps for terrain, or plain, or with artificial divisions like states, religions, diplomacies, and others. In the generator, you can really zoom in, down to the cities as dots and placement of major routes.
#MAD GENIUS GENERATOR DOWNLOAD#
I don’t know if it was my browser, but I was unable to download a jpg file from the generator, which was fine, I just grabbed a png instead. I was messing around with it to show you all something fun you could use – but I was also mindful that I had fiction to write! A random map, with the settings on states, and two continents. It’s a minimalist look at first, but offers deep details if you start playing around with buttons and settings – including the ability to put in your own names for states, cities, rivers and much more.
At this distance you can’t make out scale, let alone political city-state boundaries (“Candyworld” art by Cedar Sanderson)Īzgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator is a fun tool for the writer, or the gamer. And this week I discovered a nifty way to randomly generate both world maps, and cities. However, I completely grasp the coolness of having a map to help visualize the world your characters are going to tread, if you want that to be something other than a mimic of our own. Me? I came to art late, and digital art even later, and my focus for traditional media is botanical, and for digital I’m deep into creating space scenes. She used to spend hours designing energy-efficient, flowing use-space houses, and still does using SketchUp. For my Mom, it’s always been all about designing buildings, especially houses. Mapmaking looks cool, but doesn’t spark my imagination the way drawing a dragon does. I’ve been asked, since I do art, if I do fantasy maps.
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