Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.
Challenge News
June/July 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a trip or journey
Congratulations to aeshnidae for winning the Lite Challenge with map 'Roland's Journey', inspired by Stephen King's Dark Tower series. Aeshnidae wins her second silver compass. Check out the WIP thread here.
Honourable mention to runner up AlfansosRevenge for map 'Apollo 11 Flight Profile'.
July/August 2018 Lite Challenge : Opposing Seasons
Our latest Lite Challenge, running till mid-August is 'Opposing Seasons'. Bogie writes...
This month's Challenge is to create a map in 2 versions. You can map anything you want, a river scene, a farm, a castle, a mountain valley, a coastal island, a town, a country, anything, it is your choice as long as you make 2 versions in opposite seasons, Winter and Summer, or Spring and Fall. I guess the prime restriction is that what ever you map has to have seasons. A dwarven mine looks pretty much the same in spring and fall so not a good choice.
If you have questions, head for the Intro thread. Check out the current entries here.
July 2018 Challenge : Son of the Fantasy Random Generator
At the time of publishing, there's about a day left to finish up and submit your final entry, so get cracking! This challenge is always popular, and it's great to see so many entries once again (19 maps!) Thanks to all who entered, and good luck to everyone when voting starts. Keep an eye out for Diamond's post with the poll.
You can see all the entries here.
Five threads to check out
The latest work-in-progress threads, interesting discussions, new tutorials etc etc. It's all here.
- 'Dark Souls', by MistyBeee
- 'Miel, Later Known As (+ Campaign/Worldbuilding Sketches)', by Arhan
- 'The Dragon's Backbone and Surrounding Lands - novel version', by Caenwyr
- 'A new town', by Chlodowech
- 'The City of Runiste', by Wingshaw
Five Ten Finished Maps
Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
- Two new maps from J.Edward: 'The town of Deliverance' and 'Black Point Beach'
- Two new maps from FrancescaBaerald: 'The Village of Drakkron' and 'Octopath Traveler - Map of Orsterra'
- 'Commission Map - City of Cal-Harborne', by Mystic Wings
- Two new maps from Voolf: 'Coast of Taberan Mear' and 'Calderon World'
- 'A Tribute: Earthsea', by Kellerica
- 'Mapping 27 nature areas in Stockholm', by Onez
- 'Aran & Ilan - novel version', by Caenwyr
- 'The Fortified Town of Aesty', by Jo
- 'Map of Runeterra', by Bioluminescence (with amazing interactive version)
- Two new maps from DanielHasenbos: 'The City of Garven' and 'Ukiyo, The Floating World'
Around the web
Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.
- A couple of ocean-themed posts today: 'Comparative Lakes and Seas' from Map of the Week, and 'Oceans and seas' from the Bodleian Map Room Blog
- From Map Mania, fun link to Little Big City, a 'WebGL experiment which creates a small world based on OpenStreetMap data'
- 'City of anarchy' (Kowloon Walled City) infographic
- From LA Mag, 'This Map Explains the Hidden Ways L.A. Places Got Their Names'
- Couple from Twitter: 'American Airlines Systems Map - 1962' and 'Pictorial map for the Greek island of Rhodes c. 1935'
- From NatGeo, 'Charming Illustrated Maps Illuminate the Character of New York City'
- A new animation of the Janssonius globe
- 'Isochrone Maps (Travel Time Maps)', via Data Visualisation Catalogue Blog
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