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Polygon Map Generation demo. The simplest way to explore the maps is to click Random repeatedly.

Polygon Map Generation demo

Try the various Island Shape, Point Selection, and View options. Feel free to use these maps for any purpose, including commercial use. This is a map generator I wrote in 2010 for a game[4]; I’m not working on it anymore, but all the code is available so that you can download and modify it for your own needs. I also have an HTML5 version of mapgen2[5] that has slightly different features. In a shape number like 85882-8, 85882 chooses the overall island shape and 8 is the random number seed for the details (random points, noisy edges, rivers). Names Aren't Neutral: David J. Peterson on Creating a Fantasy Language.

A common bit of advice given to writers is that story comes first; everything else comes second.

Names Aren't Neutral: David J. Peterson on Creating a Fantasy Language

With respect to fantasy, this advice is often employed to warn against the dangers of falling down the rabbit hole of world building. World building is great only insofar as it serves the story; anything else is a creative form of procrastination. Ultimately, the author is responsible for every choice made in their book, however much care or research was invested in the effort, and this includes the setting and everything that entails—from the physical terrain to the architecture to the weather to the names of characters. Some details may be relatively unimportant with respect to the story, and so can be left to the reader’s imagination; some may be important in one story, and not in another (for example, the way seasons work is an important detail in George R.

Tracks. Perfect Pacifist People. "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

Perfect Pacifist People

" This trope describes one of the most common forms of Utopia: a society, nation, or world that has ascended so far beyond petty divisiveness that everyone is a pacifist living in peace and harmony. Neighborhood Rocks: Names for All Our Rocks. Generating fantasy maps. These are some notes on how I generate the maps for my Twitter bot @unchartedatlas, which is based on a generator I originally produced during NaNoGenMo 2015.

Generating fantasy maps

There's JavaScript code for the generator on Github here, and the original messy Python generator code can be seen here. You may also be interested in this companion piece, which describes the placename generation. Inspiration. The Black Netflix Was Created By A Black Woman & It Is Called KweliTV. Netflix is the popular streaming system that gives us access to our favorite shows, series, movies, documentaries and more via their online platform.

The Black Netflix Was Created By A Black Woman & It Is Called KweliTV

Castles made of castles. Repper Patterns — Online Demo. Breaking Character – Full Game Download. Limber – Game Jam Build Download. Limber, a fast paced hole in the wall game made for the Ludum Dare 35, has you trying to dance your way through walls to pay the bills!

Limber – Game Jam Build Download

You have to go through some training before you can be a hole in the wall expert. You will learn from masters of your trait which keys make you do each move. Limber has some quite interesting controls, using the Q/A/Z keys for one side of your body, S for a single move involving all of your limbs, and the E/D/C keys for the other side of your body. Any combination of these keys do a different move that will need to be known before you face the real hole in the wall challenge. Thoughts & Prayers: The Game. Breach & Clean – Game Jam Build Download. Breach & Clean, a fast and funny low poly hotel cleaning simulator made for the Castle Game Jam 2016 has you breaching room doors with explosives and cleaning up hotel rooms whether people want you to or not!

Breach & Clean – Game Jam Build Download

In Breach & Clean you are a hotel maid who is just looking to get their job done as fast as possible without getting fired. There are many hotel rooms on each floor, each with a different sign on the door or no sign at all. Rooms with no sign do not have people in them and are quite easy to clean without that stress. Rooms with a red sign on them are basically rooms that do not want to be disturbed. You still have a job to do though and need to clean these rooms anyway, so you must use bombs to blow in the door and clean the room, getting in and out as fast as possible without distressing the guest too much (blowing up the door with explosives is fine though!!) Metamorphosis by Franz Kanfka, a game from Mito Studio.

Safety Instructions. Steven Universe Gemsona Maker ~ ORIGINAL. Gemsona Maker Game by: Doll Divine Create your own Gemsona in this Steven Universe inspired dress up!

Steven Universe Gemsona Maker ~ ORIGINAL

First choose your gem, then customize your character to the max. Once completed, you can then FUSE your characters to create NEW and greater gems!!! (longer description coming soon) How You Got Your Superpowers - Randomly Generate The Origin Of Your/Your Character's Powers. You might like these generators:

How You Got Your Superpowers - Randomly Generate The Origin Of Your/Your Character's Powers

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Create Your Own Superhero. Play Chibi Maker. 20 World Building Questions for Authors to ask Themselves. Author at work: now is the time to ask yourself these world building questions World building is the art of convincing a reader that a fictitious place exists.

20 World Building Questions for Authors to ask Themselves

4 Ways to Measure in Fantasy - How much? How far? How Heavy? Worldbuilding: Science in Fantasy - So you’re going with fantasy as your genre of choice? I guess that means you don’t need to worry about science. Just because you presuppose supernatural forces to exist, doesn’t mean that there can’t be science alongside them. What “No Science” would actually mean. Worldbuilding: Creating Fictional Cultures - Especially if your story takes place on a fictional world, you’ll need to create fictional cultures. When you create a world, you need to create its inhabitants. Random Wilderness Map Generator. Comments This is really an awesome tool. My only suggestion to make it better is to include a chasm option. A bridge option would also be cool, to have access to the other side. Donjon; Fantasy World Generator. Interactive Brain. DAI Modder Central. Low Jump Scare Movies – Where's The Jump? What Do You Want To Do By The Time You're 30. Chicken Soup for the Dorky Soul: Dorky Things to Do With Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend.

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A new series of prints by artist Roger Peet aims to address a tricky topic: cultural appropriation. In his series In//Appropriate, which debuted at the Portland State University Littman Gallery this month, Peet printed images of white people engaging in cultural appropriation on tall banners. Terms of Service; Didn't Read. Recommends music, movies, TV shows, books, games. Amazein at www.973-eht-namuh-973.com.

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