Here Dragons Abound

Inspirational stuff, with lots of great references to the OGs at the bottom, and source available. Now can it be merged with the look/feel of https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/. ;)

This blog is amazing as well: https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/ The latest entry is about the mentioned map generator by the way. Make sure to check earlier ones!

Along similar lines is "Here Dragons Abound", a blog about procedural generation of fantasy maps, though it hasn't been updated in awhile. https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/

Related: The "Here Dragons Abound" blog [1] deals with pleasant layout of generated maps. [1] https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com

Finding good fantasy mapping blogs is hard, I don't know too many, to anyone else interested in this Here Dragons Abound[0] is really good resource. Any others people really like? -[0]: https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/

- https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/ - detailed posts about procedural generation of fantasy maps - https://thealexandrian.net/ - for tabletop rpg content

"Here Dragons Abound"[0] is another interesting take on this topic. The guy's been working for about a year now to beef up Martin O'Leary's work[1]. Fascinating read through if you start at the first post. [0] https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com [1] http://mewo2.com/notes/terrain/

Also check out https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/

What you're describing reminds me very strongly of Here Dragons Abound's "Forever Project": https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-forever-project.htm…

Indeed. The Here Dragons Abound author's blog post on the overhead of maintaining this very cool open source project for the benefit of others [0] is rather eye opening. This is a blueprint for what it takes to do it correctly, often for very little reward. Also, apparently he is a contributor to Nethack. [0] https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2022/06/map-compasses-retrospec…

If you like this sentiment, read "The Forever Project": https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-forever-project.htm…

The other two posts he linked to here were real interesting as well: * https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2016/11/this-is-where-i-draw-li… * https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2018/12/hand-drawn-lines-revisi…

This is beautiful! And must be even more beautiful from technology side. I have recently became interested into procedural generation as my free time hobby. As a backend software engineer I was looking for a side project with no commitment. Which would be flexible to apply different types of technologies, boring and interesting at the same time. "The Forever Project" [1] article describes motivation behind it. Since I had no experience with Rust, game development & procedural generated stuff, combining everything sounded pretty covering my "Forever Project" theme. I'm currently going through Rust Rougelike tutorial[2] to get basic understanding how games are being developed & maps are generated. I like the tutorial a lot because it covers so much different topics. From game dev, few libraries, to different approaches of maps generators. There is a lot of content there but I'm already raising questions to myself where to look next? What should I learn & focus so I could deepen my knowledge in procedural generated content? I understand I always can read random tutorials (what I'm doing) and try to glue something from them. But maybe you have advises or more guided content as books, long tutorials, courses? Thanks. [1] https://heredragonsabound.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-forever-project.htm… [2] https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/rustbook/chapter_0.html