If you can’t afford to commission someone, I’d recommend having a look at some of the other threads about this where there are a lot of free resources for maps:
So I’ve been toying around with the idea of adding a map to the game I’m working on, and I was wondering if there are any useful map making tools or programs someone could recommend? I’ve tried my hand at random generators, but aside from the fact that they can never get a shape quite right, they feel very impersonal. I don’t have any artistic skill whatsoever, so something that won’t require more than a general outline to get started would be preferred and appreciated!
I am not looking for anything fancy, just a simple to use and easily learnt map making tool, anything that can create maps that look marginally better than those drawn in Paint.
If anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly appreciated.
Anyone know of any easy map creation tools for the very artistically-challenged? here but I can’t for the life of me get labels to appear!
So I’m creating an interactive simulation game on Twine based on X-Men where you get to explore the X-Mansion, and since it’ll involve a lot of moving from part to part of the Mansion with several floors and outside I think I would like to create a decent layout map, either just for my benefit but also something I could eventually insert into the game itself? So I’m trying to think of any way to best represent that? I don’t know if any other game developers on here have good strategies for mappi…
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