Canvas of Kings

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Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic map-making tool that utilizes randomness and auto-generated elements on adjustable paths and plots. Place hand-drawn objects with customizable properties and combine them for variety. Adjust lighting, weather, and export definable areas with or without grids for a personalized map experience.

Play Modes

Single-Player Play through the game's story or campaign solo

Reviews

96%

Audience ScoreBased on 233 reviews

graphics7 positive mentions

optimization3 negative mentions

Canvas of Kings is an incredibly easy-to-use map-making tool that allows for quick creation of detailed maps for D&D and other tabletop RPGs.
The art style is charming and the animations add a lively feel to the maps, making them visually appealing.
The developer is responsive to feedback and actively updates the software, showing great potential for future improvements and features.

The current asset library is limited, lacking variety in buildings, terrain types, and essential features like water bodies and interior designs.
Performance issues arise when working with larger maps or dense object placements, leading to crashes and lag.
Some basic quality-of-life features, such as a text tool for labeling and better object selection, are missing, making the user experience less intuitive.

graphics
19 mentions
37 % positive mentions
47 % neutral mentions
16 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are praised for their cohesive and aesthetically pleasing hand-drawn art style, which enhances the map-making experience. While the current asset library is somewhat limited, users appreciate the quality of the existing models and express excitement for future updates and additional features. Overall, the graphics are considered suitable for the top-down viewing style, making the tool user-friendly and visually appealing.
- “All of the assets seem to work effortlessly together to create a great aesthetic.”
- “I do believe it is in its early stages so it is lacking a bit in variety of models, but the models that are currently present are well made and very aesthetically pleasing, and there's just enough variety to make really amazing city maps and fortresses!”
- “An honestly great game, intuitive mechanics and inviting graphic style, I can't wait to see where this goes.”
- “Being a hand-drawn map-making tool, there aren’t graphics in the traditional sense.”
- “The current asset library, although aesthetically pleasing, is fairly limited.”
- “Gorgeous and incredibly easy to use tool, however, every 10 minutes or so, it crashes my graphics drivers.”
story
7 mentions
43 % positive mentions
57 % neutral mentions
0 % negative mentions
Users appreciate the tool's detailed mapping capabilities, which significantly aid in world-building for storytelling and tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons. They express a desire for additional features, such as customizable plot sizes and the ability to replace existing terrain with new elements, to enhance the mapping experience further. Overall, the tool is seen as a promising resource for storytellers and game masters.
- “I'm writing a story, and I'm using this to make a map of the world, and being able to do so in such detail has helped me so much!”
- “Really cute and easy for mapping out story villages. I can also see this being helpful for Dungeons and Dragons.”
- “I think this has the promise to be a top-tier map maker for D&D or any storyteller needing to make a map or city.”
optimization
4 mentions
25 % positive mentions
0 % neutral mentions
75 % negative mentions
The game's optimization is lacking, particularly when creating larger maps or dense object areas, leading to significant performance issues such as camera shaking and prolonged loading times of up to 15 minutes for maps over 6MB. Users feel the game is better suited for smaller maps, and there is a strong desire for improvements in performance and load times for larger creations.
- “I would hope that the performance and/or load time for large maps could be fixed, since it's hard to resist using that large of an area as provided.”
- “Performance starts to suffer if you are building realistically sized forests.”
- “I get the impression that this is more optimized for smaller maps currently, but the default canvas size is enough that if you fill the map, it really slows down.”
- “There are some issues with performance in object-dense areas, where the camera will begin to shake uncontrollably when moved; additionally, maps that are 6MB+ in size seem to take an exponentially longer time to load, about 10-15 minutes, which is unfortunate for making large maps.”
stability
3 mentions
33 % positive mentions
0 % neutral mentions
67 % negative mentions
The stability of the software is currently marred by bugs, particularly with the ctrl+z/y functionality in room management, but users find these issues manageable through trial and error. Despite some glitches and missing features, the overall performance is solid, and the art style is well-received.
- “It's still early in development, with a few features missing, but the art style is great, it runs smoothly, and overall it's just a fantastic piece of map-making software.”
- “The Ctrl+Z/Y situation is really buggy when it comes to rooms right now.”
- “It has some glitches, but nothing that you can't overcome with a bit of trial and error.”
grinding
3 mentions
0 % positive mentions
0 % neutral mentions
100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious and frustrating, particularly when it comes to generating water bodies and managing overlapping objects. The process of adjusting terrain and moving individual items is seen as cumbersome, detracting from the overall experience.
- “Generating oceans and bodies of water is tedious and annoying.”
- “It would be nice to have an option to select a specific object from an overlapping mess of objects; it's tedious and annoying to shift entire areas just to adjust a single road or move an accidentally placed object.”
- “You can manage fairly detailed forests and meadows, small farming and fishing villages, and little else.”
atmosphere
2 mentions
50 % positive mentions
0 % neutral mentions
50 % negative mentions
Users appreciate the atmosphere created by the software, noting its potential for crafting small towns and woodland camps. However, they also highlight that the current version lacks adequate features, such as diverse indoor scenes and additional decorative elements, which could further enhance the overall ambiance.
- “It gives a really great sense of atmosphere and you can make small towns or camps in the woods.”
- “As an early version of the software, the features are obviously inadequate, including but not limited to drawing indoor scenes, modern towns, and various widgets to enhance the atmosphere of the scene, such as more style tables, chairs, doors, people, and other styles of transportation.”
gameplay
1 mentions
100 % positive mentions
0 % neutral mentions
0 % negative mentions
The gameplay is praised for its intuitive mechanics and appealing graphic style, contributing to an overall positive experience that leaves players eager for future developments.
- “An honestly great game, with intuitive mechanics and an inviting graphic style. I can't wait to see where this goes.”