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A topic by technoskald created Oct 27, 2020 Views: 606 Replies: 6
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Let’s collect together resources that might be useful to folks for the jam. Post more below!

The “lo-fi sci-fi” aesthetic is common in the Mothership RPG community as well, so here are a few popular sites and tools from that community.

  • Playscii: “Playscii is an open source ASCII art, animation, and game creation program. It runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.”
  • NEWT Blueprint Builder: Map drawing tool modeled after the look of the Nostromo computers
  • Dungeon Scrawl: “Dungeon Scrawl is a mapping tool developed by Keir, aka @ProbableTrain. It aims to be an easy-to-grasp tool with a high skill ceiling, empowering artists by automatically taking care of the most time-consuming stuff.” Includes spaceship styles.
  • Starship Geomorphs: “Hundreds of detailed deck plan geomorphs for creating starships, space stations, starports, or buildings.” All in the style of the Traveller RPG.
  • Atomic Rockets: “Sample Scifi Universe” with a ridiculous amount of resources.
  • Retro Battlestations: Old-school computer rigs (subreddit)
  • Photomosh: “PhotoMosh lets you glitch images, videos and webCam using WebGL effects. Save output as image, GIF or video.”
Jam HostSubmitted

Hey AWESOME thanks for posting these resources! (Photomosh has taken over my life.)

Submitted

These are amazing.

HostSubmitted(+1)

These are awesome. 

Just a heads up about those starship geomorphs: They’re released under a CC NC license, so if you use any in a game, I think that means you should not charge for it. (But I am not a lawyer!)

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Thanks for posting these - great ideas! Here's one I found a little while ago for generating 3d (wireframe) space ships.
https://ship.shapewright.com/

HostSubmitted(+1)

I used this for the ship map in Obital Decay! It's neat.

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Here's another resource webpage that might be helpful (although admittedly with 2400 most of the charts are a simple d20 roll) but for those who like to nerd out and make things more complicated than they need to be) ;) https://chartopia.d12dev.com/
You can also find/search for generic sci-fi related charts to help with names, scenes, etc.