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The 14 products produced by that BackerKit campaign have now been released. You can see them all here.

GMs looking to create isometric Modern Day and/or Post-Apocalypse maps for their RPG campaigns should check out this crowdfunding campaign on BackerKit.

The map-making software is already developed and available, and it runs on Windows and MacOS. This crowdfunding campaign is only to fund the porting of the new isometric mapping content. There are no shipping costs involved, since it is all digital downloads, and very quick delivery of the rewards is expected (February 2025).

You can easily preview all the new content via this YouTube Playlist.

Currently 76% funded, with less than $700 to go, with 8 days remaining. An amazing 82% of the backers thus far have pledged for ALL the new content.

Just a reminder that even if isometric mapping isn't your thing, this campaign is also a way to pick up a MapForge license at a discount, in case you want to make top-down or hex-tile maps.

Pseudodult, is this the sort of thing you'd like to see in a Starfinder tileset?

With luck, there will soon be many more such tilesets.

I'd like to see Paizo do the digital map routine with this. Program to make our own custom tile maps out of these. Print or display, would be awesome.

I'd love to see Paizo release these tiles in MapForge format. Users could customize the tiles, have infinite copies of any particular tile, flip/mirror the artwork as needed, and then print out their map layout in one piece, at a large-format printing service.

Did Paizo ever consider developing a Battle Map Creating software?

I see the quality of product you guys put out with Pathfinder and all its secondart accessories, just imagine what Paizo could do with a battle map creation software.

With the owner of Dundjinni gone awol and assumed fallen off the planet because the inability of anyone able to get ahold of her, and the over-complicated interface and bloated price of Campaign Cartographer this is a great opportunity to put out a simple to use, eye catching battle map creation software.

You could sell the base software and to keep making money on the software Paizo could sell Add-On packs. Item Packs, creature packs, building packs, texture packs.........the list goes on and on.

Cyderak,

I took what you said to heart and have set out to create exactly the sort of mapping software you described.

It's called MapForge, and it's currently on Kickstarter to raise funding in order to develop it fully.

You were absolutely right about this being a great opportunity for a mapping program now that DJ is gone, because my campaign, incredibly, funded on day 1. It's now in the process of unlocking the Stretch Goals (2 down, so far).

I have invited the good folks at Paizo to take a look at my software and to consider selling some of their incredible and exhaustive library of mapping art in the form of content Add-Ons for MapForge (think "artpacks"). So far, I've heard nothing back from Paizo except for a "good luck with your project!".

This project is going to create a community of content-hungry map-makers, and the bigger that community gets, the better chance I see of Paizo sitting up and taking notice.

I agree with the previous posters who said that Paizo should hire an outside developer/programmer to handle something like this, rather than attempt to do it in-house, so that they can focus on what they do best...publishing great products for RPGs. Well, I'm offering.

Hi folks. I am going to be creating cross-platform map-making software (for Windows and macOS), suitable for creating both for print-resolution maps and lower res maps suitable for use with virtual tabletop software. The program will be sort of a spiritual successor to Dundjinni, but with a greater focus on stitching maps together from pre-existing map tiles and then customizing the resulting map (with additional decorations, etc.) to suit the GM's particular needs.

The program should appeal to GMs of face-to-face game sessions and those using any VTT software, who want to create their own slick-looking battlemaps but who find existing mapping programs (including image-editing tools such as Gimp and Photoshop) too intimidating/confusing/expensive.

In late January or early February 2017, I'll be launching a Kickstarter campaign to try to fund the program's development. The software will be priced to be very accessible/affordable, likely in the $20-$25 range (at least during the Kickstarter campaign).

I'm trying to gauge public interest in this, so please let me know if such software would be of interest to you.

With so many virtual tabletop programs to choose from, it can be difficult to find the one that is right for you and your gaming group. This Guide to Choosing a VT should help.

My own VT offering, Battlegrounds, has a Fog of War system that allows for manual reveals (ie, the GM uses a variety of drawing tools to reveal shapes or areas on the map), dynamic (automatic light-source and vision-based) reveals, and a combination of both systems at once. Dice macros are also fairly easy to create (and later edit, if needed).