Cartographer's Guild/RPGtonight mapping contest with prizes

[The Hound]

RPGtonight is co-sponsoring Cartographer's Guild's May Mapping Challenge, with first, second, and third prizes offered.

 

The theme of this contest is "minimalist maps for virtual tabletops."

 

When people use miniatures in their roleplaying games they love to use BIG lovingly detailed artistic battlemaps. This is fine on the kitchen table, but online these big maps mean HUGE filesizes - so huge that many are just too big to use for people with dialup connections and some even tax high speed internet. In this contest we decided to do a favor for people who are gaming online in the slow lane, by sponsoring a contest where the idea is make big maps that look great but take up very few kilobytes. Please go to http://www.cartographersguild.com for all the details, but here are the rules in a nutshell:

 

Theme: Minimalist maps for online Virtual Tabletops.

 

The challenge is to come up with an attractive "battlemap" for online virtual tabletop style games.

 

Rules:

 

* The map must have a resolution of at least 1280 X 1024 pixels

* The filesize must be no more than 75kb.

* The map must be useful as a "battlemap" on which miniatures (thumbnail size tokens), can be moved around. A scale of around 5 - 10 pixels per foot is a good size.

* The map must depict an area on land, which could include building interiors, town areas, dungeons, wilderness areas, etc. It doesn't have to be fantasy themed...modern, western, sci-fi, etc. are fine.

 

Entries must be posted to the Cartographer's Guild's "Mapping Challenges" section in the Cartographer's Guild forums. Please read all of Cartographer's Guild's rules and look at how they handled last month's contest. Questions can also be posted to their forums. Entries must be posted prior to the last five days of the month, after which they will be voted on by members. See http://www.cartographersguild.com

 

RPGtonight is a free online virtual tabletop program for RPGs that works in your browser. See http://www.rpgtonight.com