This is very neat, I hope I will have time to dig into this at some later date. Great job!
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#12I have nothing super valuable to add except to say: this is totally awesome. Good for you for exploring this and sharing it with the world. I just emailed it to 3 non-techy friends who will totally love it.
Keep making, keep sharing!
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#13This is truly fantastic, both the project and the interaction. If you want to continue with it, it seems there's so much more you could do, too: roads, forests, altering namelists for different regions...
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#14If I had this as a kid I would have buried myself in the basement playing D&D for the rest of my life.
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#15Very cool! This reminds me of Amit P's polygonal map generation project, which you should look at if you're interested in this kind of stuff. http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
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#16Well done, thanks! BTW, this is a quick way to generate an higher resolution map on the site. Open the developer tools, remove the width from .note (it's the container of the column), inspect the map at the bottom and set the height and width of the canvas to suit your needs. Then click on the Generate button. Maybe the page could be changed to extract that canvas from the column layout and make it fit the viewport.
He gives you his source on github. I think that's enough right there.
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Oooo and it's MIT...
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#17If the novels were as bad as he says they were, maybe he can crank out some random(ly bad) prose to go with it, and get Amazon-rich. (And/or, this might make an interesting companion project.)
I like it. If we assume that schlock fiction is objectively worse in some measurable way, then that suggests it should be easier to generate than works of high literature. I bet with some concerted effort, it would be possible to build an algorithm which digests a bunch of generic fantasy books and produces a tale of an unlikely group of heroes questing for the $object to turn the tide of $conflict.
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#18If the novels were as bad as he says they were, maybe he can crank out some random(ly bad) prose to go with it, and get Amazon-rich. (And/or, this might make an interesting companion project.)
You can't sell hair metal fantasy any more unless you happen to be named "George R. R. Martin".
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#19Everything looks great except the rendering of the mountains.
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#20This is such a great tool for hobby world designers. I know for sure that I will use this when I create adventures.
I made multiple tools for random world generation but never come close to this kind of quality. I'm impressed!