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		bovermyer on May 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? I'm working on a system that generates fantasy worlds. It's meant for RPG players, especially those that do solo tabletop play. It's more simulationist than similar worldbuilding tools. I recently rewrote the climate generation to be closer to reality. You can read about that here: https://blog.ironarachne.com/major-update-to-the-climate-sys... The website is here: https://ironarachne.com And the code for the underlying API (Go) is here: https://github.com/ironarachne/world

SuoDuanDao on May 14, 2020 | [–]

Oh wow. I've been thinking about trying to get into a remote rogue trader campaign, this looks like an awesome tool for that system!

Jemaclus on May 15, 2020 | [–]

Very cool! What inspired you to do this?

bovermyer on May 15, 2020 | [–]

It was no single thing. Probably the spark that ignited the flame, though, was this project in 2016:

https://github.com/mewo2/terrain

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