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    Published on 01-22-2018 02:38 AM
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    Welcome to the weekly round-up, a summary of what's going on at the Guild over the past seven days.


    Cartographer’s Choice


    Congrats to Azelor on his Cartographers’ Choice award for map ‘The Kingdom in the Clouds’. Check out the full size version to appreciate the detail and hard work that went into this map. Great to see a Guild World map be recognised too.














    Atlas Awards

    Have you nominated your favourite maps of 2017 ...
    Published on 01-15-2018 03:22 AM
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    Amedir by Wingshaw,
    a private commission



    Welcome to the weekly round-up of what's been happening at the Guild over the last seven days.


    Atlas Awards


    Nominations are open for the Atlas Awards. If you're new to the site, the Atlas Awards are our 'Map Oscars', where we recognise the best of the best, posted during 2017. We have eight categories, listed below, and we want you to nominate one map for each:
     

    • Best World Map
    • Best Regional Map
    • Best City, Town, or Village Map
    • Best Structure,
    ...
    Published on 01-06-2018 03:20 AM
    Winner of December 2017 map challenge


    Mostar Bridge
    by Jo
    Winner of December 2017's Regular Challenge 'Peace and Harmony'




    Mappy New Year to all Guilders!

    This blog post covers the high points from the last three weeks, as I took a break over the festive period, so there's lots of catch up on.



    Challenge News


    December 2017 Regular Challenge
    December’s regular challenge was ‘Peace and Harmony’, where Guilders were asked ‘to create a map showing two or more distinct races or cultures living together in harmony’.

    Voting was extremely close with only one vote separating the top three maps. Our congrats go to winner Jo for map Mostar Bridge, showing the destruction of a famous bridge during the conflict in the former country of Yugoslavia.

    Honourable mentions to our joint runners-up GreatWhiteNorth and Greg, who both produced fine maps worthy of a gold compass. ...
    Published on 12-18-2017 03:16 AM
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    Vincius Family Dyson Tree Farm
    by Southern Crane
    Winner of Nov/Dec Lite Challenge





    Challenge News

    Lite Challenge

    The November/December 2017 Lite Challenge was ‘Map a Farm or Ranch’. Bogie wrote…
     
    Since we are getting into the holidays I thought we should do something a little easier. Map a Farm or Ranch.
    But that gives a lot of range of possibilities, could be a standard peasant farm, or a big horse ranch, a cavernous mushroom farm or a Tribble farm on an asteroid. Come up with something unexpected if you want to.

    Voting was very, very close on this month, a testament to the quality of the mapping. Our congrats go to Southern Crane for map 'Vincius Family Dyson Tree Farm'. Southern Crane wins his first silver compass and ...
    Published on 12-11-2017 02:03 AM
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    The Glyphs of Kaylaric
    by Mouse




    Here's our weekly roundup on what's been happening at the Guild over the last seven days.


    Challenge News

    November Regular Challenge
    November's challenge was 'Survive!', inspired by a suggestion from Wingshaw. Guilders were asked "to create a fortress for a handful of survivors to withstand a zombie apocalypse" or, alternatively, "instead of zombies each participant gets to choose what hideous beasties, terrible monsters, or ghastly ghouls their survivors are going to encounter."

    Our congrats this month go to Mouse for her entry The Glyphs of Kaylaric. Mouse went for the second option and ...
    Published on 12-04-2017 03:02 AM
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    Safrân by Ilanthar


    Here's our weekly roundup on what's been happening at the Guild over the last seven days.



    Guild News


    On the Map
    We have a new On the Map interview, just published. This month our victim is Brian van Hunsel, better known round these parts as Blaidd Drwg. We've all enjoyed Brian's recent Mapvember work, so check out his story.


    Guild Dungeon
    Mappers continue to work on their dungeon maps, and if you'd like to join in, head for this folder and start a thread. if you have questions, ask 'em here.

    Redrobes has put together the first zoomy map showing all dungeon maps completed so far. Set your browser full screen, and zoom right ...
    Published on 11-27-2017 03:10 PM
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    Oct/Nov Lite Challenge joint winners

    Left: The Free Nation of Venezia by industrygothica
    Right: La 31ème île d'Inktober by ThomasR



    Today we're starting a new style of blog post. It'll be a mostly(!) weekly update with a round-up of what's been happening at the Guild over the previous seven days. If you're absent for some time, and there are too many threads to read through, this is an easy way to catch up.

    So let's dive in!


    Guild News:

    Our newest community project 'Guild ...

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