Fantasy maps created using Xara Xtreme

**zaphodeist** · 10 July 2010, 07:46 AM

Looking good.

Just a thought, but how about making the surrounding levels a "Cretan" Maze pattern?

**Karateed** · 10 July 2010, 10:11 AM

Well, in a sense, they are.....a-maze-ing....sorry John, couldn't resist.....

Very nice GP.....

**zaphodeist** · 10 July 2010, 10:16 AM

I'll forgive you Ed

**Gamerprinter** · 12 July 2010, 04:10 AM

Thanks, guys!

I didn't want to add walls, as I was trying to make the main map very stark, more fitting a realistic henge on the plains type structure. It looks like something you might see on a Celtic isle somewhere.

I had fun with this one.

GP

**Gamerprinter** · 14 January 2011, 07:23 AM

Its been a long while since I posted, sorry about that. Its not that I haven't been designing new maps, its that I am currently working on my own RPG publication project serving as concept creator, designer, developer, cartographer, part-time illustrator, art director, and technical advisor. So much of the work is 'top secret'. The publication should be released sometime early February, with two more products to follow then a hardbound print compilation in the summer - so I've been really busy!

I may not have mentioned it earlier, I'm designing a roleplaying game setting and set of 3 adventuers for Pathfinder RPG, inspired by feudal Japan crosssed with Asian horror. Once published I will post some of the new maps at that time. The product is Kaidan: a Japanese Ghost Story. Some of my posted maps are for the setting.

Its kind of job security. Instead of waiting between cartography commissions, I become the publisher and demand large amounts of quality maps - really offering more maps than what competitors can afford. So its a win-win situation.

The first adventure has been finished writing as of today, and it going to editing next, it should release sometime in the next two weeks...

Anyway, just a post to note, I'm not dead, or have forgotten TalkGraphics, just buried in my own project for a bit longer.

Michael Tumey

**Gamerprinter** · 19 January 2011, 06:36 AM

Here is the latest map for the above named project, a bridge across a small river in a mountain pass, where an encounter with a hebi-no-onna (demon snake woman) will occur. A trap causing the middle section to fall into the river as the adventure party is trying to cross. Unseen in the map is a lost salt-water crocodile awaiting for fresh meat.

This of course combines a scanned hand-drawing given stain-glass transparency filter, then beveled and dropshadowed shapes placed beneath to give a sense of depth, and some depth in the water with varying stacked layers of transparent blue shapes.

Enjoy!

GP