MapForge – you need to back this. Yes, you.
Hernan Ruiz Carnauer is someone I’ve known for a bit. I’ve seen and envied his Battlegrounds program, and backed his last few Kickstarters, some of which funded, others which did not.
This one, though: MapForge, falls into the category of “Shut up and take my money!”
Look at those textures. And those are programmable tiles – watch the video, and you’ll see the stuff you can do.
Hernan has the moxie to pull this off, as any player of his Battlegrounds VTT can attest. It’s already funded, but awesome deserves to be rewarded. He’s very customer-oriented, and I know he’ll deliver.
I’m in for $30. You should be too. These are fantastic looking maps that you’ll be able to whip up, and if things get really good, perhaps modern maps, sci-fi maps, and other expansions are not far behind? That’s the kind of thing that happens if a project overfunds – you start looking for ways to deliver even more awesome to your backers and customers.
Thanks for blogging about this, Douglas!
I dig this a bunch.
Douglas, have you had a chance to take MapForge for a spin, now that it’s been released?
Not yet. Been head down in finishing my Dragon Heresy project
New Kickstarter campaign for MapForge, ending soon:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/battlegrounds/isometric-map-making
Basically, I’m trying to provide isometric support for free to all MapForge users, but to pay for the development costs, I’m asking people to purchase isometric content packs that I’ll be publishing for use with the software.