I recently made this map for a project I’ve been working on, but i made it using a map generator. Now i know this is fine, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s just a little *soulless*. I feel like for a personal worldbuilding project, i maybe should create a custom map.

Part of me likes adding empires and geopolitics to an already formed map, kind of like coloring in the lines of a coloring page. I dont really know, but its not like i stole a map online, i tweaked settings to make it how i wanted it, until I felt satisfied. anyway, thanks for letting me rant for a little, I’m sure it’ll be fine.

Today i want to ask... Why... Why do we find it SO fascinating to create worlds, to craft stories and maps... why?

I’ve been at it since I was TWELVE years old... twelve... TWELVE YEARS! Making maps and creating fantasy, imaginary worlds... i was to little and making horrible maps and super cliche stories...

And today, with 39yo my wife doesn’t understand why I draw maps... why I come up with stories and tell her about worlds that don’t exist... and i discuss with my friends about things that never happened.

Why do you think this happens?... Dot tell me because we like it... yes of course we like it... but WHY...

Have a good week! ♥

Made on the Website: Merak Map Maker

Map created for Nathan Washor, who is developing a game world and an adventure for D&D, spanning levels 1 through 20. The world he is building is truly fascinating it consists of various planes of existence connected by massive pillars.

We began by creating the map for Pyre, a world of fire and lava, and the next one will be the realm of ice! It is a very exciting project, and Angela and I are thrilled to be able to contribute our maps to it!🧭🗺️🔥

Moreno Paissan and Angela Gubert Art 2026

Give your thoughs, and drop name ideas for the islands. Anything is acceptable.

Edit: the anchors are major ports and the lines with the point of an arrow in them are international airports.

Size from the east most point to the west most point, and north most point to the south most point is about 820km x 950km

Name: Valania
Ideology: Authoritarianism
Government Type: One-Party State
Population: 52 million
GDP Rank: 12th
Economy Type: Planned with small privatisation allowed for small businesses, certain cities, and farmland
Military: 8th

Largest Resources:
- iron -Silver
-nickel -Diamond
-coal -Tungsten
-gold -Ruby

Top Exports:
-Military Equipment
-Ships
-Automotives
-International Logistics
-jewelry

MILITARY:
-mandatory conscription
-defence pacts with its northern nations
Army:
-300,000 active personnel
-450,000 reserve personnel
-split between mountainous and mechanised amphibious warfare
Airforce:
-680 aircraft
-small expeditionary capabilities
Navy:
-250 ships
-mostly patrols the strait
-had an expeditionary corps

What do you think?

original from u/Kilroy Jensen ......... I thought it would be cool to add more details such as glaciers on mountains and add a human aspect by inserting gray areas on strategic locations on the map. Hope you like it

This is the best I could do to imitate old cathode-ray tube screens to emulate a tactical war map in a bunker 10 floors beneath the pentagon.

Tried to make the pixels larger because CRT screens are usually low resolution (at most 1080p) but I gave up on that.

Made it in GIMP.

High quality link

Two Continents

The continents of Fidena and Naukra share a history spanning millennia. Whether through conflict, agreements, or trade, the two have always been linked by various events that shaped the lives of humans, elves, dwarves, and the Draconics. While the dwarves established their kingdoms within mountain ranges and the elves within their forests, humans and Draconics divided the coastlines and other territories among themselves. A segment of the population from the Draconics' high realm broke away to found a new kingdom on Naukra; it flourished and expanded over the following centuries, giving rise to several cities. Simultaneously, various human dynasties built and expanded their own kingdoms and empires—frequently clashing with one another. Elves and dwarves generally steered clear of human conflicts, focusing instead on their own realms while maintaining open trade. The maritime republics, meanwhile—which saw very little conflict—dedicated themselves to commerce, amassing great wealth and opening their doors to every race inhabiting the land.

The region is on a continental boundary, making a sizeable highland complex east of center, and several mountain chains running parallel to the coast Through the center. The lush lowland areas to the south are heavily populated.

A collection of city maps created by Angela and me over the past few months for various publishing projects and private commissions... Have a great evening, everyone!🧭🗺️🏰

Visit my IG for see more maps: https://www.instagram.com/morenopaissanart?dlrf=MXZjajRkeGlzemtxNA==

Hello! I’ve been working on a world for a story, a planet called Archimedes, which has a 70-degree axial tilt, a moon (about the size of Pluto), and a ring system. I decided to give it this extreme tilt, but I’ve been struggling to figure out how day/night cycles and seasons would function, which in turn makes it difficult to name locations, weather phenomena, and so on. I had some initial names in mind, like "Sea of ​​Sunset" or "Sea of ​​Sunrise"—classic choices, but I wasn't sure if they would actually make sense given this kind of rotation. Surprisingly, they do—at least near the equator; meanwhile, the regions from the tropics toward the poles experience polar-style winters and summers. any other suggestions?

I want to make random alternative history maps but i don't have an idea on how to make them.

In the latest novel I am writing—which, like my others, is set in Tír Ghlas—the protagonist mysteriously ends up in a parallel world called Domhan Eile (Otherworld). It resembles Tír Ghlas, but instead of being a single island, it is divided into four major islands of various shapes, inhabited not only by ordinary people but also by human-animal hybrids.

This is the southern island; it is essentially a "physical map." I drew it using Sakura Pigma Micron pens and painted it with Gansai Tambi and Rembrandt watercolors.

The Website added a Customizable Solar System with orbits and custom planets, alot better bathmetry, and google earth style maps.

After several months of inactivity, I’m ready to show what I’ve added to the renderer:

• Reworked the river generation, using water flow with Budyko’s balance.
• Added isolines to display depth.
• Expanded the color palette for biomes and improved the lighting to better depict the terrain.
• I’ve added the generation of states, settlements, points of interest, and roads. Settlements appear in the most habitable locations. Roads are displayed in the places that are easiest to traverse (where no mountain ranges or huge lakes in the way).
• Added the ability to create maps of any size.
• You can now add adjacent tiles to maps, i.e., increase their size in any direction.

Optimization:

The cache of RAM is used ~20 times less.

The map rendering time is reduced by about 3 times.

At the moment, I’m working on simplifying the generator installation, as it requires the terrain‑diffusion model to work. I’ll post it on GitHub as soon as I make the installation user‑friendly.

Soy nuevo en esto asi que pido ayuda para calcular la escala del mundo para una saga de historias. El mini continente rojo cuyo nombre es Pacha se supone que debe medir alrededor de 15 millones de kilometros cuadrados. Cuanto necesitaria ser el tamaño del planeta para que exista este mapa.