The generation method is rather arbitrary, the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city. The creator says: “This application generates a random medieval city layout of a requested size.
Medieval Fantasy City Generator by watabou - This is interesting, as this can be a kind of fiddly part of the work.Campaign Cartographer 3: I’ve heard good things about this but haven’t used it.Inkarnate - A wide variety of mapping styles, again pointed at the D&D or tabletop gamer.(They also have heraldry design tools, should you be in need of something like that.) Their gallery page will give you a sense of the types available. Worldspinner - This resource is oriented mostly toward the kind of maps used in fantasy gaming, but they support a number of mapping styles inside that graphic genre.Please note that this list is still lacking some video tutorials that I have to go dredging through my browsing history to add in.įor map creation from scratch (specifically fantasy-map creation, but this would work for others too):
So some guides to resources aimed at producing those results will appear here too. My own maps are intended to be relatively modern in design, but other people possibly want to take more traditional or ornamental approaches.
It seemed like a good idea to gather together a list of ones I’ve found helpful, and ones that might be useful for other people who have the same kind of work in mind but might have different stylistic goals.
This has meant a lot of rummaging around online seeking resources that will help me get where I’m hoping to go. That said: I’ve been in the (more or less usual) situation of knowing the general look I want to achieve, but not being any too sure how to achieve it. (The initial Twitter thread discussing this is here.) For a while now I’ve really needed versions of these that are better suited for reproduction online, and in the ebook editions of the older works (and the new ones) we’ve been bringing out at the Ebooks Direct store. If you follow me on Twitter, you probably know that for the past couple of months I’ve been working (on and off) on the business of updating old legacy pen-and-ink maps made for the Middle Kingdoms universe.
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