Perilous Shores

Devlog

• 1.6.6: painterly options
  March 27, 2025 by watabou

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  This update introduces two new options that should provide more visual variety to maps. The effects of both options are demonstrated on the rather noisy map below: ... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 1.6.5: fjords and curved labels
  July 30, 2024 by watabou

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  This update is one of those that can be relatively big, but still have no prominent theme or a centerpiece new feature. "Assorted new features" is not a good title for a post, so instead I chose rando... Continue reading

  
• 1.6.4: improved islands and peninsulas
  March 07, 2024 by watabou

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  ...All terrain types in Perilous Shores are created by combining fractal noise and gradient . I use this method in all my generators that require a height map (e.g. in the village generator ) because... Continue reading

  
• 1.6.3: improved forests
  February 07, 2024 by watabou

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  Forest "clouds" are now complemented by segments of tree sprites along their front (bottom) edges, implying something like oblique projection... (more)... Continue reading

  
• Collection of styles
  December 01, 2023 by watabou

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  The collection is here: link . A short post about it is here: link ... Continue reading

  
• 1.6.1: tributaries
  November 28, 2023 by watabou

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  As usual, there are much more new features in this update , than just tributaries mentioned in the title. Most of those features are water-related, but again, as usual, it was too hard to keep an upda... Continue reading

  
• 1.6.0: archipelagoes, adding and removing towns
  July 07, 2023 by watabou

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  The post itself... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.3: improved towns and woods
  May 20, 2023 by watabou

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  Here is another Perilous Shores update, and this time instead of three relatively big new features, there are a few smaller ones. They still can be divided into three categories, though... (more)... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.2: improved mountains
  May 10, 2023 by watabou

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  There are three new features in this update . Here they are in descending order of their importance/interestingness: (more)... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.1: vantage point and other visual features
  February 13, 2023 by watabou

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  The 1.5.1 is here. This is a relatively small update with just one new big feature and a number of small ones. The big feature is... Vantage point Some time ago (over a year ago , actually!) I experim... Continue reading

  
• 1.5.0: area labels and conlang toponyms
  February 02, 2023 by watabou

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  As it was announced in the previous post , the main feature of this update is area labels. Conlang toponyms are a sort of supporting feature, but implementing it took enough time to justify adding it... Continue reading

  
• WIP: area labels
  January 20, 2023 by watabou

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  I am currently working on the next update for Perilous Shores . It will take some more time till it is ready, so to break the radio silence I decided to share some intermediate results. As I wrote ear... Continue reading

  
• Keyboard shortcuts and mouse actions
  November 26, 2022 by watabou

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  Keyboard shortcuts: Enter - generate a new map Shift+Enter - discard manual changes Ctrl+Z - restore a previous map [ , ] - rotate the map by 90 ° Tab - open the Region parameters window V - open the... Continue reading
• 1.4.2: labels and improved geometry
  November 24, 2022 by watabou

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  As the title suggests, this update is about labels and improving the geometry of coastlines and landmasses. In the previous post about Perilous Shores I wrote about my plans to get rid of the legend i... Continue reading

  
• 1.4.1: compass rose and other visual changes
  July 12, 2022 by watabou

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  ...This post is longer than usual, so here is a list of highlights if you don't want to read it all: Compass rose. "Hollow" rivers. Improved forest "blobs". Rerollable towns. More grid customization... Continue reading

  
• 1.4.0: non-square maps, bays and peninsulas
  June 09, 2022 by watabou

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  Not too many new features in this update but at least one of them is pretty important: ...(more)... Continue reading

  
• 1.3.1: town notes and numbered hexes
  January 27, 2022 by watabou

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  Perilous Shores has been updated. Most of today's changes are settlement-related apart from the numbered hexes ...(more)... Continue reading

  
• 1.3.0: roads and permalinks
  December 21, 2021 by watabou

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  Perilous Shores has been updated. This update consists of one big new feature (roads), one smaller new feature (permalinks) and a set of small visual changes …(more)... Continue reading

  
• PS and VG: integration and a number of small changes
  October 03, 2021 by watabou

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  The main feature of this joined update is integration of the two generators. OK, this is maybe a too big word for an ability to open a village in Village Generator by clicking it in Perilous Shores ... Continue reading

  
• 1.2.0: landlocked regions and SVG export
  August 19, 2021 by watabou

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  Perilous Shores has been updated. In the previous post I listed most of the planned changes, here I'm going to provide more details ... Continue reading

  
• 1.1.3: forest blobs, expanded palette
  July 13, 2021 by watabou

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  Perilous Shores has been updated with features I wrote about in the previous post . There is not much to add, just a few comments... More details here: link ... Continue reading

  
• 1.1.2: lakes, editable names
  June 30, 2021 by watabou

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  Features from the title are what this update was supposed to be about. Along the way ideas started to pop up in my head about what else can be easily added or improved, but I know that simple features... Continue reading