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Fantasy cartography, fictional map-making, or geofiction is a type of map design that visually presents an imaginary world or concept, or represents a real-world geography in a fantastic style. [1] Fantasy cartography usually manifests from worldbuilding and often corresponds to narratives within the fantasy and science fiction genres.
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as we know it – as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
The program was designed to draw maps for role playing and miniature war games. [1] The CAD engine is based on FastCAD, [2] although most of the code was written by the publishers. It includes a variety of add-ons for different genres, including fantasy, modern and science fiction. [3] Campaign Cartographer 3 was released on June 30th, 2006 and ...
Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay . Alissar. Lyon Sprague de Camp. Novarian series. A Novarian city-state. Al-Ybi. Terry Pratchett. Discworld. Al-Ybi is a mostly unremarkable desert city in Klatch.
Monty Oum. Monyreak "Monty" Oum[ 2] ( / oʊm / OHM; June 22, 1981 – February 1, 2015) was an American web-based animator and writer. Oum attracted attention within the gaming community after releasing an animated video in 2007, titled Haloid, where characters from the Halo and Metroid video game franchises fight against each other, which went ...
Mansions of Madness is a tabletop strategy game designed by Corey Konieczka and published by Fantasy Flight Games in 2011. Players explore a locale filled with Lovecraftian horrors and solve a mystery. After five years, two big-box expansions, and six print-on-demand scenarios, the original Mansions of Madness was retired and replaced by ...
Google Map Maker. Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008. [ 2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by Google moderators.
Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe. [ 1] Developing the world with coherent qualities such as a history, geography, culture and ecology is a key task for many science fiction or fantasy writers. [ 2] Worldbuilding often involves the creation of geography, a ...