Fantasy maps created using Xara Xtreme

**Gamerprinter** · 19 February 2010, 04:49 PM

My website hosts my service for large format digital printing of RPG maps for gamers and publishers, so its a business website (so it won't go away soon!)

My site has been active since April 2007.

Good points and I will try to format smaller versions of my files so they can easily be posted as attachments, here, so they can last into posterity.

GP

PS: except for commission maps which are All Rights Reserved owned by the respective publishers, most of my maps I offer as CC-BY-SA license for free use in home RPG games, just not for publication. In the gaming industry there are only 150 or so pro mappers in the industry world-wide, we all know each other (more and less) and though the end-user market is in the millions - we tend to learn quickly when a map is "walking away" and take action quickly. Our fans are quick to notifiy us when something like that happens - loyal fans and all.

**Gamerprinter** · 19 February 2010, 10:23 PM

Work-in-Progress map for the village of Tomme is near completion. I need to add some timber piles at the lumber mill, timbers floating in the river near lumber mill and the interior map for the inset - then it will be finished.

**Gamerprinter** · 20 February 2010, 08:12 PM

I found the completed version of my Sea Dragon City map - Ryukyo (which means "dragon city" in Japanese).

And here's a link to the larger version of that file...
Ryukyo map

The real experiment in this map was to simulate the depth by using layers of 30-60% transparent rectangles of blue stacked between "lower" terrain layers, so the image gets darker, more blue, thus deeper until you can barely see the objects at the bottom.

Enjoy!

GP

**Gamerprinter** · 20 February 2010, 08:31 PM

Here's an older map that's completely created in Xara Xtreme Pro alone - no other software was used. Rather than color textures there is extensive use of aerial photos of forests as well as closeup photos of rock jpg's used as texture fills for various shapes. I don't do this style much, preferring a more hand-drawn look in the maps I create (also a preference for that by publishers as well.)

Here's a link to the larger version of this map - this was a personal project, so anyone is free to download and use this to their hearts content, just not for commercial use (CC-BY-NA) licensed. Celanta small continent map

I used this for a home-brew game - so this isn't published work.

GP

**Scotty** · 20 February 2010, 09:14 PM

Gameprinter I think the last link is faulty..it has an extra hyphen..
JimM

**Gamerprinter** · 20 February 2010, 09:22 PM

Oh! You're right! I fixed it - thanks.

Michael "GP" Tumey

**Gamerprinter** · 20 February 2010, 09:29 PM

One more map I thought I'd post before getting offline - things to do!

Here's my September Map Challenge entry (and winner) at the Cartographers' Guild Sept. '09, called the Archean Trade League - kind of a pirate era fictional map in a colonial wilderness area.

And of course here is the full sized version of that map...
Archean Trade League map

This is the first map, I began attempting to combine hand-drawn scans with digital creations in Xara Xtreme.

Enjoy!

GP