june Issue of the Stellar Clarion is out

[nadinbrzezinski]

of interest might be the how to create maps for fun and background

Yes, it does have pictures

http://www.deistgames.com/

[kentauros]

1. My eyes hadn't yet seen the link when I read "create maps"

and immediately thought "GIS?" :D

http://www.qgis.org

I don't know how difficult it is to make new worlds, but you could always combine a DEM (Digital Elevation Map) of someplace on the Earth with one of the other planets we've mapped. Or just find a DEM of Mars and zoom in close enough to an area such that most people won't know the difference ;)

I'll read the PDF sometime today...

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. True, you could do that

This is using art software, and the GIMP works well by the way

:-)

Of course you could always use AUTOREALM, free and good enough for FANTASY maps

Yep, GNU... and my bad I did not mention it in the article since... well.. I concentrated on the art programs