Update: To those reading this, this request is closed - I've narrowed down my choices to a select few folks. Thanks for your interest!

I have a few videos/screenshots of incredibly early looks that I've posted here

Maybe. Still in the funnel...

Whoa I check this two hours later and there's a ton of interest. Let me parse thru all these, and get back to you all

Here's part 1/X 😅
porschiey-alt.github.io/posts/buildi...

There's just not enough room to describe what's going on in the server and client comms. I'll have to make a whole different video for it. 😆

Hahaha! Too many years working on a team has trained me to at least have a few words so that future me can find where I messed up

Oh nice! Yeah we have similar stuff for sure.

Yes, I have a "paper material" texture that I blend in, then I use the water mask to create shore ripples, and then animate blotch revealing that on each map slice as the map shader.

The mountains & trees are layered in with a diff shader.

PPM (portable pixmap format): an image format, but very bare bones: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm

The PPM is essentially the biome channel/ctrl layer for me. Elevation comes in as an "alpine" biome & I paint on mountain stamps with it using a gradient.

Very cool you're doing dungeons too!

Whoa, just read your game site. Very interesting!

Thanks! I'll check it out. We could potentially collab, yeah! My generator is server side (multiplayer game) and spits out a ppm, and several masks (water, mountain, trees as one payload per slice.

Yeah sure! I subscribed on the site. 😎

Very cool. Love the game concept too

For sure! I'll be posting some early screenshots / dev diary stuffs in the coming days