It’s called Azgaar and it’s a map generator that you can make alterations to and give input. You can make it in different styles to make it look modern or more archaic. You can add how many countries you want, specify shapes and land size, population stats, legends, landmarks and other different graphs, army stats and etc. . . They even have a 3D viewpoint and a globe space like one where you can see the earth you made. It’s not as flashy as Inkcarnate but it’s great if you just want a simple map that looks professional.
Last I used it it was free but I don’t know if the dev has put a price tag on it yet. i think it’s still free though.
I think I will try to be gentle on myself this month and set a broad-ish goal of putting down 20k - 30k words. It also happens to be the month where a majority of my immediate family decided to have birthdays, despite my advice to spread them further apart. So keeping a routine might be trickier than it was the last month.
Thank you @Omeg! This month I’d LIKE to finish floor 3 of the Museum in 1936, but if I just get half way between where I am now (Synoptic Series of Mammals - done! Hall of Insect Life- done) and the rest (Hall of Reptile Life, Hall of Petrology, Hall of Primates, Hall of the Natural History of Man) I won’t complain.
Okay, got about halfway to my goals for last month :,) better than nothing. Relieving to know from these threads that it’s normal to come up a little short, especially considering how time consuming this medium can be.
Is anyone else splitting their time between college/part time job/hobby writing? How do you spin all those plates without breaking one?
Not that particular combination (and I’m notoriously bad in practice at spinning any amount of non-necessary plates to begin with, so take this as you will), but: if you seriously don’t have time (or words), then you don’t have time (or words), and there’s no shame in cutting your writing time if you can’t afford it. If you have time but just aren’t using it, scheduling. Put it in your timetable.
Oh, yeah. Sometimes I’ve speant so much effort for my school writing that I’ve practically ran out of words for a week. Brains need recharge.
When I was in college, I couldn’t write during the school semester, I kept pushing myself to, but the reality was I literally could not. I have found it way easier to work around a job than school though.
I schedule the first hour of my work day for writing, monday through friday. I can’t always stick to it, but when I do that’s where 80% of the initial writing gets done.
My goal for April is twofold: Continue development on Lily Adventuresses! Episode 2, and make the prologue for Lily Adventuresses! Episode 3 for Ludum Dare 57 this weekend. This time around, Episode 2 will definitely have a final release window of May 2025, and I’ll take a temporary break up until the end of July.
Hi there I just want to say good job on all the stories you guys make. I love playing CoG games, Hosted games too and exploring different stories. I was wondering. Do Authors take like fan requests or like example (fake name) Long was to come up with a game or multiple games but can’t code and write them down do they contact the Authors to do it?
I’m not aware of people taking full stories. Maybe suggestions for choices within a scenes, but I’ve never seen someone taking full stories. A lot of us have so many of our own ideas, I find it hard to imagine us writing suggested stories from others without being inspired by the suggestion.
I am in college right now and internship, but I haven’t felt too much of split in time because the academic year is almost over and we’re mostly just wrapping up requirements. But for me, I try to finish all the intern stuffs on the weekdays and note down any ideas I’ve come up with throughout the days (I just type it down on my phone), then full blown writing or smoothing out the details on the the weekends. Though I didn’t take the part time job into consideration 'cause I don’t have one.
I love doing this lol Ever since our prof decided to have us study Harry Potter, I didn’t want to read the whole series, so I mostly read fanfics of it hehe Fanfics can be a good case study for writers. I’ve learned a lot reading them, and community is helpful too.
Dunno for other writers, but I used to to do this, taking requests and prompts (mostly for one-shots), writing on Wattpad. But I think it’s less likely to happen in IF space, because coding and writing take too much time to take requests, that it’s better to spend that time on their own ideas and main projects. I think it’s plausible that some authors take commissions though, if they don’t have a main big project working on (like with visual arts).
I also have an idea for a side project. It’s short, but it’ll also help me code something game-y for my main project. Where you play as an AI spaceship, guiding humanity to it’s new home planet. It’s like the game Seedship (text-based game too, and free), but with more narrative than a loop. I want to implement something like that on my main project, but I need know how it’ll work first code-wise.
There is actually a thread where you can post ideas:
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Thanks to Omeg for hosting the thread this month! For my goals for the month, it’s finish at least 2 chapters of my WIP “All the Way” and then start prep for an update for “Dice & Dungeon Masters”
Thanks, @Omeg, for posting this month’s Writer Support Thread! If I had to pick a word, I’d go with Simulacrum, it has a certain charm, and I don’t see it used very often.
Honesty, I don’t even try. If writing starts getting in the way of my studies, I just focus on my degree since that’s what’ll give me financial stability in the future. I love getting lost in my own imaginary worlds, but realistically, they’re not covering the bills unless I somehow wake up as the next Shakespeare and start selling bestsellers, which isn’t exactly likely. That said, since a single dollar converts to nearly six Brazilian reais, writing IFs as a side gig sounds like a pretty tempting option.
I am… honestly quite burnt out at the moment, but gods help me, I’m getting Chapter Four out this month.
Specifically:
Finish the last scene
Get through the early access process to public release
Get… some amount of words into the new one.
Hopefully I can allow that last bit to actually be as flexible as it needs to be, but I am a captive to my own routine and have never actually successfully taken a ‘break’ of longer than three days in my entire life (intense anxiety about not working included), so. We’ll see how it goes.
So keeping a routine might be trickier than it was the last month.