Atlas Architect: Build your own gorgeous 3D hex crawl

Danial Rashidi is a Swedish computer game designer who’s worked in DICE and on projects like Battlefield and Battlefront. Danial is now on Kickstarter with a “creative world-building” game that’s intended to be a cathartic art project.

Gamers, though, tabletop roleplayers who may require hex-based gorgeous maps, will immediately see another use for it. The game has already funded, and you can join the pledges on Kickstarter.

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The game will be available on Steam later, but for SEK 100 (or about £9) you can grab a copy now, along with three high-resolution maps with a delivery date of 2020.

If you can’t watch the pitch video, then it shows landmass popping into being, in hex-shapes, and perfectly blended into the surrounding territory. Danial makes a fortress island, complete with fields, in seconds and then spends only a minute or two tweaking the world to show off Atlas Architect’s capabilities.

The system already supports;

• Castle
• Cities
• Deserts
• Deadlands
• Farmlands
• Forests
• Islands
• Jungles
• Grasslands
• Mountains
• Oceans
• Rivers
• Roads
• Rocky
• Ruins
• Savannahs
• Snow
• Swamps
• Villages
• Volcanoes

Plans for the software are impressive and suggest to me that tabletop gamers are precisely a target audience. They include;

• Bridges
• Cave Entrances
• Dwarven City
• Floating Islands
• Elven City
• Elven Villages
• Hills
• Lake Towns
• Orc Cities
• Orc Camps