This is an interesting description of an algorithm for generating world maps. The author’s original implementation is in ActionScript to ensure that no one will ever reuse the code. But there’s also a JavaScript subset.
The website has some interesting concepts. I’m particularly interested in their algorithm for noisy edges.
I’ve played a lot of RPGs in my life. I’ve often been apprehensive about talking about my history with RPGs, though, because I went through a period where people used my nerdy interests as a way of discrediting my gender identity. “RPGs are a guy’s hobby,” is how the critique usually started. Comics, RPGs, and other nerdy pursuits: all things that guys are into. Not women. So if I like RPGs, that’s evidence that I can’t really be a trans woman. *Margaret_Simpson_noise*
I know tons of women who RPG, and tons of women who make comics. So, y’know, I don’t really believe those messages. But I can’t always quiet the memories of those critiques when they pop up in my head.
I guess this is just to say that I feel like I’m stepping a bit outside of my comfort zone to blog about about RPGs.
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