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Written on Jul 08, 2008 // News, games
I’ve been reading through (and formatting) the material in the Traveller Developer’s Pack released by Mongoose Publishing. It’s really good stuff, and I think it’s fantastic that they’ve made this available to 3rd party publishers.
In the spirit of making fun scifi game material available for free, here’s a Star Hex Map for you to download and use in your games. I think it would be handy for Traveller, Battletech, Star Frontiers or other space themed games.
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Written on May 21, 2008 // games
HexDraw is an easy to use graphical editor for designing hexagon gridl game maps. With your favourite bitmap-painting program you can draw anything you like directly on the hexes. Load an image as the background - let the map be see-through and place you
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Written on May 19, 2008 // games
An interesting analysis of the structure of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. This graph shows the flow of pages(121), choices(44) and endings(36) in CYOA #5 The Mystery of Chimney Rock.
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Written on May 16, 2008 // games
This article on programming map generators takes a look at what makes some types of puzzle maps (eg. a dungeon map) fun to explore — while other maps are not as much fun. Even if you’re drawing a map by hand, there are some good points here.
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