D&D Map Maker- Team 17

Inspiration

The inspiration was because one of the kids on the team really wanted it for his D&D club at school, since dry-erase boards designed for purpose can be quite expensive.

What it does

It generates a grid based map with various terrain objects. It is designed such that additional features can be added at a latter date. (Such as the die roller which has already been implemented)

How I built it

It was built in java over the course of a 12 hour hackathon. (Though we did loose an hour trying to get git hub better)

Challenges I ran into

I accidentally set everything to the same object one time which caused the project not to work correctly among many other things

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I wrote part of a program along with a great team and we worked together really well. Also this is good group development project since we are all on our high school robotics.

What I learned

How to use swing for Java as I was not familiar with it before this project.

What's next for D&D Map Maker

We are going to implement more and more features such as drag-able character location markers and other things of the same sort. There is also room for better graphic design and more graphic options.

For team 17, we coded a Dungeons and Dragons game board generator with custom textures. The project was coded in Java and used swing graphics. The generator uses a grid system of the user’s desired size and allows them to place a custom texture in any of those spaces with special features such as elevation change, blockers and doorways. The program also has some designer friendly features such as tile duplication.  

Built With

• java