{"id":1175,"date":"2014-10-23T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2014-10-23T15:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T15:34:01","slug":"other-world-mapper-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/other-world-mapper-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Other World Mapper: Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve always been terrible at art. Really. I can\u2019t even draw convincing stick people. It never really mattered much, though, because I never needed to. I left all that painting, drawing and generally arty stuff to those with a talent for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

But now I\u2019m writing fantasy, and really, a little drawing skill might be a rather useful thing to have, because – maps. Every fantasy world has to have a map, right? I\u2019ve had people ask about maps for my stories. Oh, but you\u2019ll have one when the book is published, won\u2019t you? Well, no, because: see above. And I really can\u2019t afford professional artwork for a map. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I know there is already software out there that supposedly allows anyone to draw maps, and I\u2019ve even tried some of them, without any success. My hand-drawn back-of-the-envelope efforts are better, frankly. But I keep hoping for something simple enough that even I can use it.<\/span><\/p>\n

And here\u2019s something that just may work for someone like me: mapping software that really does look simple yet effective. It\u2019s called Other World Mapper and there\u2019s Kickstarter for it which runs until November 7th 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Check it out at: http:\/\/kck.st\/1rTYfBZ. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a sample of what the software can do:
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I\u2019ve always been terrible at art. Really. I can\u2019t even draw convincing stick people. It never really mattered much, though, because I never needed to. I left all that painting, drawing and generally arty stuff to those with a talent for it. But now I\u2019m writing fantasy, and really, a little drawing skill might be a rather useful thing to have, because – maps. Every fantasy world has to have a map, right? I\u2019ve had people ask about maps for my stories. Oh, but you\u2019ll have one when the book is published, won\u2019t you? Well, no, because: see above. And I really can\u2019t afford professional artwork for a map. Now, I know there is already software out there that supposedly allows anyone to draw maps, and I\u2019ve even tried some of them, without any success. My hand-drawn back-of-the-envelope efforts are better, frankly. But I keep hoping for something simple enough […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}