Happy New Year!

Don’t worry – I haven’t forgotten about LoreGen! It’s just been a busy several months, and it’s been put on the backburner. I recently started a new job as a full time .NET software developer, which I’ve really enjoyed. It’s...

Fall Goals

Hey LoreGen friends – I’m back! It was a whirlwind summer for me personally, and the autumn promises to be just as tumultuous in many regards. I’m starting a new job for the first time in six years; this will be my first job change since I graduated...

Summer Doldrums

Hey LoreGen friends — My real job demands virtually all of my attention during the summer. I should be back with updates some time in September! Thanks.

The World Map: Thinking About Boundaries

This is a series about the basic components of a world generated LoreGen. Updated as of version 0.12 Shapes and Boundaries A basic assumption that I made when designing the framework of LoreGen: to create visually interesting worlds, you need to have a system for...

The World Map: Continents

This is a series about the basic components of a world generated by LoreGen. Updated as of version 0.12 Sample World Beginning with this post, I will use a sample world to demonstrate each step of LoreGen’s worldbuilding process. The seed I am using for this...

Join the mailing list!

LoreGen now has a mailing list! I haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to do with it yet, but I know for sure it’ll be the first place I send updates and release announcements to. Any bonus or “How It Works” articles will also be...

Version 0.12 Released

Version 0.12 of LoreGen and the Worldbuilder were released this afternoon. You can download the latest version for free at the link below. The updates to LoreGen in this version include a couple of bug fixes, re-implementation of the creation of Ocean entities, and...

LoreGen Now on GitHub (But…)

I have put the LoreGen C# source code on GitHub: https://github.com/danstalcup/loregen Feel free to peruse my code! However, there are a couple of issues: The data files are not included in the commit. You can get them from the Worldbuilder download I haven’t...

Version 0.11 Released

Version 0.11 of LoreGen and the Worldbuilder were released this afternoon. You can download the latest version for free at the link below. The updates to LoreGen in this version include improved continent and region shaping The updates to the Worldbuilder include...

Preview: New Region Shaping

I had the chance to spend a couple hours rebuilding the engine for generating the shape of regions to make their shapes something more than simple rectangles. Here’s what they used to look like: Here’s what they look like in the current build: They still...