Weekly Round-up - 27th November, 2017

Today we're starting a new style of blog post. It'll be a mostly(!) weekly update with a round-up of what's been happening at the Guild over the previous seven days. If you're absent for some time, and there are too many threads to read through, this is an easy way to catch up.

So let's dive in!


Guild News:

Our newest community project 'Guild Dungeon' is going well and has produced some great maps already. Check out all the mapping threads here. Keep an eye on Redrobes' giant map, where he's assembling all the pieces.



Challenge News:

Lite Challenge
The Oct/Nov 2017 Lite challenge was 'Map an Island - Pick a Shape'. Bogie provided four island shapes and encouraged mappers to go wild with them.

We had a tie at the top, so two silver compasses were dispensed this month. Our congrats go to IndustryGothica with map 'The Free Nation of Venezia' and ThomasR with 'La 31ème île d'Inktober'.

Honourable mention to runner up jshoer for map 'Salvayke'.

The Nov/Dec challenge is 'Map a Farm or Ranch'. More info here.


Regular Challenge
November's challenge 'Survive!' finishes on Thu 30th Nov, so finish up and get those maps submitted! Polling will likely start late Thursday or Friday, and will run for three days.



Five Finished Maps:

Five hot maps posted over the past week.

1. Tick Tary Tanner's Magnificent Mansion by FrancescaBaerald
2. Kingdom of Rahn by Gonzotron
3. The Flat Planet by Francissimo
4. Yndaros - Commission for Järnringen by Obbehobbe
5. Themystra by ThomasR

Five threads to check out:

The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.

1. Several members are participating in #Mapvember2017. Most threads are in the General and Miscellaneous Mapping folder, so have a browse there. Don't miss DanielHasenbos, Blaidd Drwg & Dyson Logos' threads for regular updates. If you have no idea what Mapvember is, here's some background.
2. Vorropohaiah posted his latest Atlas Elyden piece: N'rach.
3. Meshon's working on "A little collaboration project" with some others.
4. Robbie, our admin, is developing a mystery game based on a Kirkbride style Insane Asylum Foorplan.
5. Tom's working on 'The Forgotten Balath Dungeon', where he is "planning to design, drawn and write some rpg adventures settled in the Heimur world"

Around the web:

Some links for your reading pleasure.

Why Ancient Mapmakers Were Terrified of Blank Spaces by National Geographic

Krita Development Sprint 2017 - development report and roadmap for future releases

Something we should not forget by Bodleian Map Room Blog

A round-up of Fantasy Map Generators



Thanks for reading. Watch out for our next round-up next week.

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