If your like me you probably use to make maps for old school RPG's just to find your way through a tough dungeon. There is a new program called Grid Cartographer that can help you do it digitally now.
Grid Cartographer is a helpful companion program designed to assist you in playing classic grid based RPG series like Wizardry and Might & Magic.
It improves upon hand drawn paper maps with a number of useful features such as: unlimited map area and floors stored in one convenient place and unlimited notes per tile (pro only).
Grid Cartographer is available in two flavours. The free version provides a good taste. If you like it, why not upgrade to the pro version to experience the full range of features.
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Grid Cartographer is a helpful companion program designed to assist you in playing classic grid based RPG series like Wizardry and Might & Magic.
It improves upon hand drawn paper maps with a number of useful features such as: unlimited map area, floors stored in one convenient place and unlimited notes per tile (pro only).
Feature Comparison
Grid Cartographer is available in two flavours. The free version provides a good taste. If you like it, why not upgrade to the pro version to experience the full range of features:
FREE PRO
Floor Area UNLIMITED UNLIMITED
Floors and Basements UNLIMITED UNLIMITED
Ground Types and Markers LIMITED SELECTION WIDE VARIETY
Add Notes to Map Tiles NO MULTIPLE NOTES PER TILE
Convenience Editing Tools STANDARD TOOLS ONLY NUDGE MAP AND CREATE BORDER
Editor Colour Themes YES YES
Keyboard Accessible YES YES
Price FREE $5 *
Updates to future versions FREE FREE
* plus any applicable sales tax.
Support
You can find technical support and any updates on the forum. Feel free to post feature requests and bug reports there too, or send them to me directly via the contact page.
Grid Cartographer
June 5th, 2013
On Monday I released my first commercial tool software for PC - Grid Cartographer. It's available in a free edition and extra features can be unlocked for a small fee when you upgrade to the Pro edition.
Grid Cartographer is an assistant program for making maps for classic tile based RPGs like the early Wizardry and Might & Magic games, amongst many others. The idea is you run the game in a window, side by side with Grid Cartographer and you tab back and forth between the two building up the map as you go along using the mouse to draw the wall edges, special floor areas and various doorways.
I developed this first as a tool for my own uses, specifically for mapping out Wizardry 6. I think this approach of "dog fooding" is generally the best way to get a good product. Especially one where you're trying to make it as helpful as possible. If I had just guessed at what was needed it could easily have been far less useful. As it stands the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive with some great suggestions from an enthusiastic group of supporters.
I think everyone understands this is a niche tool and in discussion with a friend he pointed out you'd definitely know instantly whether you'd actually need it or not. That's fine with me - I think although the market is limited that's no reason not to develop something that does a great job. I hope I've achieved that.
Development progress has been going well with several patches being released so far. You can read up on how the project has developed over the short time it has been available here on the forum. If you have suggestions then please don't hesitate to contact me through there, or via my contact page.
I had a lot of fun making this. Thanks to everyone for the support!
