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I have considered writing a "The music you love the game you play" height map generator. By selecting mp3s with music you like the world is generatad using that music as parameters, the down side is that you need to listen to the entire song before it's done. to avoid a identical design from left to right over the entire map, i will parse left and right channel seperatly (in stereo) to effect y passed data from L and x based data from R. This is till mostly a theory since other tasks take my time.

What i would like from a map editor is a in game editor. That is actual fortress editor that is quick and easy to use.

Or even more wacky, a program that generates procedural music based on your current world.

-Angry Lawyer

I guess it's a difference in values.  On the one hand, quick development but difficult to maintain code.  On the other hand, time spent making sure things are done properly means you won't get your game done nearly as quick, but you'll be able to extend it easily, and reuse the components.

-Angry Lawyer

Ah, but an important thing to learn is planning ahead.  Coding isn't just writing code - it's working out how code will change over time.  Knowing how to set up a system that's going to be able to have new stuff added without falling to pieces is arguably more important than working out how to get SDL to draw a peasant to the screen.

-Angry Lawyer

And make one segment work perfectly before moveing on.
In a room based design that would be, make one room as perfect as you can before starting working on the next room, that makes sure that you most probably will catch all small bugs and stuff early instead of having 125 rooms you need to change. It all so makes sure you maybe got a few really good rooms then 200 bad ones.

Better yet, make sure rooms themselves work, and that you can travel between them and that you can open doors between them and the game doesn't crash when you hop whie facing the east wall.

-Angry Lawyer

I don't think there are easily accessible maps, but I've heard the term before, waaaay back in my GCSEs.

New version should be up this week, with map preview and other fun stuff.

-Angry Lawyer

We'd all strangle each other over commenting styles.

-Angry Lawyer

My big issue is how to represent things graphically.  Heights are easy enough to do - anything below 100 is sea, and anything above 299 is mountain, so they can be colour coded.  Rainfall has brackets that cause forests to grow, and drainage has ones to make swamps form.  Temperature splits into Freezing, cold and the like - but how does one colour-code volcanicity?  Does anyone know what the volcanicity of a tile has to be to guarantee a volcano?  And savagery - how savage does a tile have to be before it's unsettleable?

-Angry Lawyer