Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
April 2018 Challenge : Map a Realm
Congratulations to MistyBeee for winning April’s challenge with map ‘Magocracy of Tirasea’. Misty wins her second gold compass in a row, so double congrats! Honourable mention to nopkin who came second in a very close vote with map ‘The Kingdom of Noriande’.
May 2018 Challenge : Create a set of stamps
Our new challenge is up and running. Diamond writes...
This month's challenge comes to us courtesy of ChickPea:
There are all sorts of stamps showing maps throughout the world, take a look here. The challenge is simply to create your own set of stamps with a map theme. I'd suggest four stamps in the set, but it's up you. It should be more than one, anyway. The stamps can be of a real world place, or they can be of a fictional/imaginary realm, but they should be of different monetary values, and look like they're part of the same set.
For example, each stamp could show a different region within a country. Or, you could have one stamp showing a country map, then another with a city map, and perhaps a third with a famous building. Bonus points for working in some world-building info, like who's the current ruler, or what trade/exports the area has etc etc.
If you've ever had a hankering to redo the postage stamps in your country, or to create some Middle Earth or Minecraft-themed stamps, now's your chance!
For example, each stamp could show a different region within a country. Or, you could have one stamp showing a country map, then another with a city map, and perhaps a third with a famous building. Bonus points for working in some world-building info, like who's the current ruler, or what trade/exports the area has etc etc.
If you've ever had a hankering to redo the postage stamps in your country, or to create some Middle Earth or Minecraft-themed stamps, now's your chance!
If you have questions, ask them in the intro thread.
April/May 2018 Lite Challenge : Create a bookcover
There's one week remaining in the current Lite Challenge, so there’s still time to enter. We’ve got a music themed challenge, so load up your favourite playlist and get creating! More details in the intro thread, and the current entries can be viewed here.
Challenge Suggestions
We have a new challenge suggestion from Naima...
Hello , I wanted to propose my idea , How about mapping a City , could be ancient , Medieval or modern , a City or a Metropolis, isometric, bidimensional or tridimensional ...
Have a story background explaining how and why it was founded or evolved and feature some monuments in it ...
To help the idea https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/random...;culture=Roman
From Town to Metropolis
Human Race
Any Culture desired
Minimum of 3 or more Monuments to be included or showed in the map .
Have a story background explaining how and why it was founded or evolved and feature some monuments in it ...
To help the idea https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/random...;culture=Roman
From Town to Metropolis
Human Race
Any Culture desired
Minimum of 3 or more Monuments to be included or showed in the map .
If you like the idea, go vote for it here.
If you have an idea for a challenge, post your idea in the Suggestions thread for consideration.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- Naima started a thread asking "Where do you guys advertize to promote your works?" If you have any thoughts, share them in the thread.
- Do you play Europa Universalis, and enjoy modding? Do you also have an interest in our GuildWorld community world-building project? Azélor started a thread that might interest you.
- Weery posted an update on city map 'Grimmsmouth'.
- Mouse has restarted her map 'The City of Sanctuary'.
- Gamerprinter posted several maps in thread 'Jigoku - Japanese Hell as a Planet'.
Five finished maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- 'Rubun Huil - Desert Town', by Domigorgon
- 'Guild Wold Map Coutry Map #58: Yilseudor', by ladiestorm
- 'World of Crol Map', by whipstache
- 'Le vent me meut', by ThomasR
- We had a few challenge maps reposted in Finished Maps recently, so check 'em out if you missed them first time round: 'The Iron Dominion of Kharbizar' by Diamond, 'The Dominion' by GreatWhiteNorth, and 'Edhest, The Republic of Swords' by Jo, all from April's challenge. Also, 'Mus Murinae, sci-fi HUD' by aeshnidae, from the March/April Lite Challenge.
Around the web
I seem to have accumulated a number of links to some mapping eye candy over the past couple of weeks, so I'll post the lot today...
- From Reddit:
- 'A gorgeous view of Málaga in 1880, Spain'
- '1880 Physical Map of New Zealand (and Fiji)'
- '1931 Chicago Gangland map'
- 'New Amsterdam - Manhattan in 1660'
- 'The Pacific Rim - Illustrated Map'
- 'The World - Illustrated Map'
- 'A Great Industry : Where Our Tea Comes From (1937)'
- 'Helsingfors and the fortress of Sveaborg during the Crimean War, modern-day Helsinki & Suomenlinna in Finland'
- 'Vitebsk in the 14th century, Belarus'
- Two maps from NatGeoMaps, 'Isolated Worlds of the Tepuis' and 'The Kremlin' (right click/view image for full size)
- Via the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, 'Map of Panama'
- From the Leventhal Map Center, 'The Charles River'
A few map-related articles from the last week...
- 'Contour maps in a web browser', blog post from Axis Maps
- From supchina.com, 'The mind of Fuller: UK artist creates map of Beijing unlike any you’ve seen'
- "The road to prohibition was due north of the Gulf of Wretchedness, according to these maps". Can't help but think there's a challenge in here somewhere!
- From SmithsonianMag.com, "This Is the Longest Straight-Line Ocean Path Around the Earth"
- From Atlas Obscura, 'Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps?'
- From the Financial Times "Data visualisation: how the FT newsroom designs maps". (This article is paywalled, but if you view via the tweet link, it seems to work).
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