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[World generator] - a simple online tool

Started by JesterRaiin, April 05, 2016, 04:12:30 PM

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JesterRaiin

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April 28, 2016, 06:05:59 AM
  • Added even more PURPOSE to visit the world
  • Tweaked percentile chances for some "encounters"
  • Corrected a few mistakes, especially the one that produced self contradictory environment (inhospitable + perfectly harmless planets)
  • Corrected even more typos

Current version

  • I'm currently seeking some online generators with the ability to insert images into generated output
  • Organizing variables for inhabitants - goals, religion, purpose, perhaps plot hooks
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Edgewise

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April 29, 2016, 02:16:07 AM
This reminds me of something I have been thinking about working on: a sandbox world generator.  I'm thinking that input would consist of a hex map and a set of tables, and output consists of features and events that are generated from the tables and located on the hex map.  Ostensibly, this would be really simple stuff.  As it is, a sandbox setting is practically software in paper form.  With an application like this, you can easily build sets of tables that could be loaded in...like one for Yoon-Suin, one for Stars Without Number, etc.  I would call it Sand Castles.  It sounds simple enough that I might be able to bang it out in a couple of weekends, unless I'm greatly underestimating things.  All I need is a little less laziness...
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JesterRaiin

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April 29, 2016, 04:01:57 AM
Quote from: Edgewise;894690It sounds simple enough that I might be able to bang it out in a couple of weekends, unless I'm greatly underestimating things.

You might be onto something here.

There are hex-based generators that create random (with varying degree of control over the output, like the percentage of woods/rivers etc) maps, but there's hardly any piece of software that follows user-made set of tables. I think it could prove to be very useful, especially if you'd manage to add some nice, modifiable procedures, like "IF [a settlement] EXISTS
  • hexes away ADD [natural resource] chance: [y%][/B]", or something.
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