Weekly Round-up - 3rd September, 2018

Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what’s happened at the Guild over the past seven days.




August 2018 Challenge : The Passage of Time

At the time of publishing, voting is currently underway for August's challenge. If you haven't voted yet, head for the voting thread and pick your favs.

The new challenge should up and running later in the week. Ilanthar will be taking charge this month, so watch out for his announcement.


August/Sept 2018 Lite Challenge : Map a Crater

Some great entries are coming in for the Lite Challenge. See 'em here. There's still about 10 days to go, so time to enter if you step on it!





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

• Dark Souls, by MistyBeee
• Two threads from mbartelsm to check out: 'The Battle of Gelor Ridge' and 'Lesser Angara and Isles'
• The Isles of Father Hood, by Caenwyr
• Ras Aria, by Larb
• The village of Kopfarr, by Boslok

Five Finished Maps

Check out our latest completed maps from the last week.
 

• Some new maps from Gamerprinter: 'Jack of Diamonds', 'Gendarme class Small Police Boat', and 'Planetary Mining Outpost: Hvergelmir'.
• Three maps from new member CELake2009: 'Trifell', 'Havens Coast', and 'The Silver Coast'.
• Thephobium, by TimPaul
• StellaVerum, by LizardInk
• The Realm of Blank, by Kellerica

Some links for your reading/viewing pleasure.

• A Victorian view of the World, from the Bodleian Map Room Blog
  
• The Unsung Woman Who Discovered an Unknown Island, from NASA's Earth Observatory
• From Tor.com, 'How to Map a Fantasy World'. Repost of an older article from 2013.
• From the Guardian, 'Incredible map designs from around the world'. Another look at The Atlas of Design's upcoming release.
• 'Just Another Day on Aerosol Earth'
• For users of Gimp's G'MIC plugin, here's a little article celebrating 10 years of Open Source Image Processing
• From Atlas Obscura, 'The Cowboy Cartographer Who Loved California'
• Sketch of the coast of Australia and the supposed entrance of the Great River
• From MapMania, Medieval map of the Black Sea

Finally, I'm taking a break for these posts for a couple of week while I get some work done on my house, assuming it doesn't get delayed again!! (Mutters about unreliable workmen.) We'll pick up again later in the month. Thanks for reading!

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