“...use natural phenomenon to shape my land. For example, I could tell the application about a new fault line, force it to run through a bunch of history, and mountains would soar up. An asteroid crashed here? No problem: tell the app the size and composition, and it'll level trees, incite volcanoes to form, create new mineral deposits, etc.”
- from the original essay.
Have you ever bemoaned the lack of a proper or interesting mapping tool for interactively creating maps for roleplaying games? I have, many times.
This page is my attempt at getting closer to being able to create such a tool. It's an ambitous undertaking, but I hope that by researching and thinking about it for long enough, that I can come up with some software that does some interesting subset of my dreams in a reasonable amount of time.
At the same time, I've been thinking about this for a long time, and would like to actually do it someday. I hope this website will bring me closer.