Canvas of Kings
Hannes Breuer · 2023 · Building, Sandbox, Design & Illustration, Medieval, Relaxing
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About Canvas of Kings
Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic mapmaking tool that focuses on randomness and auto-generated elements on user-definable and interactive paths, plots and rooms.Use flexible paths and plots
You can define your map with paths and plots that you can adjust at any time. The automatic object placement supports you. In this way, you can directly create a wall with towers or simply an entire forest.Place lovingly hand-drawn objects
Instead of placing and adjusting individual objects, you can randomly vary the object properties directly and use object categories to create a varied map without extra effort. The objects can also be combined. For example, you can place crates on towers or walls and move them together.Customise the lighting and weather
Use the built-in lighting and weather system to change the atmosphere of your map the way you like it. Configure different details or simply choose a template.Export a definable area, with or without a grid
Create an export area and a square or hex grid how and where you want. You can export parts or the whole map for print or digital use. You can also save your settings as a template for future maps.What you can't do with this tool (yet)
- Create fully procedurally generated maps
- Paint the landscape in the classic way
- Caves and dungeons
- Insert texts or decorative elements
- Export to VTT format (except: png/jpg, with/without grid. Map is saved as .json)
- Create animations
- There are certainly other things... :)
About the developer and this tool
I'm actually working on a trading simulation called Might of Merchants alongside my family and full-time job. For this I have developed some tools. I was asked if I could publish them. So I put in some work and created this software. It's not perfect and not finished yet, but I would be very happy if you use it and thus support my work.
Your feedback is very welcome!
You can find examples of maps built with Canvas of Kings in the Steam Workshop and on my Discord.
An additional license for the commercial use of maps created with Canvas of Kings is not required.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Love the fact is hand drawn (which is why I completely understand being black & white) it does have certain limitation BUT gets lots of updates. One of many fantastic tools to make maps (and you are hearing this from someone with an active subscription to Inkarnate & a copy of dungeon alchemist)1 found this helpful
I have a lot of hours on this game for a reason, it's a really great game, I found it through Tiktok a long time ago and just recently started making consistent maps for my D&D campaigns. Some don't like the no color aspect but y'know there is custom content that you can make and download through workshop which btw is super easy to implement into your maps. Like you don't even have to make your own stuff, people just upload maps. Another comment I've seen is the lack of assets a.k.a. items to place and it's all hand done so cut dude some slack but also you can get creative wit it, also also... custom content yo. I think this game offers a heck ton of creative freedom that I haven't even delved into yet, like making an item out of a bunch of smaller items by manipulating size, height, etc. as well as changing the map's weather and color scheme (iykyk). Anyways, great game, love the file saving feature, keep it up :)
Good for quick map making! :-) saves time
Great map-maker if you are into this style of map (which I am). I love that you can use this during a live session and have the animations running or you can export the static maps. At the beginning I was slightly disappointed with the small asset pool, but then I found the thousands of high-quality assets from the Workshop! No more compaining. Best of all, the tool keeps evolving and improving. Keep it up, Hannes!
gud
Amazing tool for map making. It is really easy to learn
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