My Maps

[Arkkeeper]

So as my first true post on here I decided to start posting the Maps I've done, all the one's I've inked at least. One thing I would like to note is all my Maps are Hand Done (Except the Real World Ones). I don't really do pretty Maps with fancy mountains and little forests and stuff. Instead I'm a Modernist Cartographer, I like maps that give the most information with the least clutter. Now I don't have a scanner so once I have to take pictures of each Map, But once I get some of the pictures I put them up.

All Maps are under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License (Note it applies to all countries even though it's United States)

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[RobA]

If you appreciate minimalist presentation of data, I would suggest checking out Edward Tufte's books: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

Very insightful, and (imoo) directly applicable to all visual data presentations, including maps.

-Rob A>

[Arkkeeper]

Oh Crap, Can someone of Authority Please move this to the Finished Maps Section Please. I would be much Obligied.

[Arkkeeper]

Poketia is the First of My attempt at making a map for my Advanced Pokemon Game Idea, See I love the Original Pokemon, The Manga is great and sometimes quite mature. I wanted to make an RPG for those of us that grew up with pokemon and never left. So this was my Map. I came up with the cool Idea of a Single Continent instead of Multiple ones. Now note that these Maps and the next posts are technically finished as they are the finished templates for the rest, it's almost impossible to redraw by hand a Map so I use Tracing Paper as a cover sheet with all my info. Also note that I cannot get access to the scanner right now but I really wanted to put these up tonight, so I used my camera and upload the photos on my Laptop, later I'll replace the Camera Pics with Scans.

[Baziron]

Poketia is the First of My attempt at making a map for my Advanced Pokemon Game Idea (...) I wanted to make an RPG for those of us that grew up with pokemon and never left.

In the olden days, when 150 were still more than sufficient... but let's not go there. The map looks fine, really. I appreciate the fact that it is handdrawn a lot.

PS: You get some Rep. Mainly for being tough enough to admit your intention of a Pokemon Rpg, and then for reinventing the setting's globe in such a good way.

[Arkkeeper]

Thank You Very Much, from researching Pokemon I have realized that all you need to do is tweak some things and suddenly it can be really cool for any age. So To delve into a little History of My reinvented Pokemon World.

Around 5000 years ago (100 BCE, CE being after the fall of the empire) the many cultures of the world had been conquered by a massive empire known as The Poketi <Aztec-Incan like>. The Poketi were most likely the most technologically advanced, and were heavy practitioners of Genetic Engineering. One of the major use of Genetic Engineering was in creating creatures for the sport of Gladiatorial Beast Combat, where Trainers would raise creatures (Known as Pokemon) to do battle against each other. By the time the Poketi Empire fell they had engineered so many species (So far there are over 9 Trillion identified species, most of these species have evolved in the wild however) that the now wild pokemon had almost completely taken over as the only form of life on the planet. Humans regressed to an Medieval Age Technologically. It wouldnt be until 4750 CE that Human would reobtain their past Technological Level.

The World is now only divided into two Powers, The League Of Governments (The League) and The New Order of Allied Territories (NOAT).

The League is the greater power controlling over 70% of the Worlds surface. It is a somewhat Capitalist state.

NOAT is a rebellious collection of nation states intent on overthrowing The League.

see so add a good plot, make the Pokemon actually look cool not cartoony, and up the action/ drama/ stuff a bit and boom... you got yourself something good. I had this image in my head of Pokemon being used in the rebel war, And the players can do either just be a group of Trainers creating a collection of the Pokemon, or you could expand to have them have to decide on the outcome of the war by being dragged into it.

Anyways NEXT POST