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Re:Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes by e12e on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:31PM (#23616259)
Is this somehow distinctive from Dragon Magazine / Dungeon Magazine from the late 80s in a way I'm not seeing? Or eg. the various TSR boxed settings with dungeons?
Re:Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes by richard_mcp on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:05PM (#23616827)
I never read those magazines and I can't say I'm an expert on dungeon map styles, but it's the hatching done in the dungeon walls that Dyson is known for (e.g., https://dysonlogos.blog/2011/09/03/dungeon-doodles-a-crossha...).

It looks like the person that made this program started playing around with the idea May 9 (https://twitter.com/probabletrain/status/1259172635776294912) a day after Dyson started tweeting about his program (https://twitter.com/DysonLogos/status/1258797586464542723).

I think Dyson's program is just a Photoshop extension and Dungeon Scrawl looks way more powerful, but it's worth pointing out the very similar timelines and styles.

Re:Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes by BorisTheBrave on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:16PM (#23621061)
Here's someone playing with the concept even earlier though. It did the rounds on reddit at the time, so I'd assumed it was the inspiration.

https://twitter.com/watawatabou/status/1197194111171940352

(in aother tweet, @watawatabou attributes the style to Dyson, though the idea of doing it programatically).

Re:Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes by nickthegreek on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:33PM (#23617290)
Re:Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes by kemayo on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:55PM (#23616625)
That cross-hatching-in-the-walls thing is fairly distinct, and I saw it immediately on Dyson's blog but not on a quick survey of old Dragon/Dungeon maps. That said, Dyson is clearly going for that aesthetic mostly, so it could be convergent evolution, and I'm hardly up to date on current styles for maps in other places.
Re:Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes by pharke on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:25PM (#23619760)
Re:Dungeon Scrawl: Old school maps in minutes by lakkal on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:03PM (#23617749)
The style really reminds me of old Chaosium maps, from the 1980s.