{"id":847,"date":"2017-08-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=847"},"modified":"2017-08-02T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T20:45:33","slug":"more-about-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2017\/08\/11\/more-about-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"More About Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More generated maps to inspire your imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Back in May, I wrote about some procedurally generated fantasy maps. Well, really they were small atlases, but randomly created by software, including all the names and travelogues. For whatever reason, these days, I find myself thinking about cities. Cities in the future. Cities in the past. But, especially, fantasy cities.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve invested a fair amount of money in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profantasy.com\/?affiliate=281882818\">Profantasy Software&#8217;s mapping package<\/a> over the years. (That link, by the way, IS an affiliate link!) But, I&#8217;ll be honest; I&#8217;m lazy. That software is fantastic and will create the most amazing maps, but, honestly, my imagination has gotten soft and flabby, and my creative imagination is even worse than that. It&#8217;s terrible. But, there&#8217;s good news!<br \/>\nNow, someone from the same happy group of programmers and creatives that made the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unchartedatlas\">Uncharted Atlas<\/a>, has created the <a href=\"https:\/\/watabou.itch.io\/medieval-fantasy-city-generator\">Medieval Fantasy City Generator<\/a>!<br \/>\nYou basically have four choices; small town, large town, small city or large city. That&#8217;s it. But, it&#8217;s also pretty much all you need.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s an example of what it can create.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/images\/RandomCity.png\">https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/images\/RandomCity.png<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, this came to my attention by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/07\/the-medieval-fantasy-city-generator\/\">The Map Room Blog<\/a>, which is worth checking out if you&#8217;re into maps.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More generated maps to inspire your imagination. Back in May, I wrote about some procedurally generated fantasy maps. Well, really they were small atlases, but randomly created by software, including all the names and travelogues. For whatever reason, these days, I find myself thinking about cities. Cities in the future. Cities in the past. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,15],"tags":[1027,946,1025,1024,85,1023,1026],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure-fantasy","category-art","category-maps-and-mapping","tag-cognitive-science","tag-imagination","tag-map","tag-procedural-generation","tag-profantasy-software","tag-technology-internet","tag-travel-documentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}