Midgard Atlas for iPad‏

[Morrus]

The folks over at Kobold Quarterly have just released an iPad app called The Midgard Atlas. It puts the world of Zobeck, the Empire of the Ghouls, and the dwarven Cantons at your fingertips, and it is available now on the App Store.

Midgard Atlas is an animated, totally zoomable map of the entire heartland of Midgard, from the Western Ocean to the Mharoti Dragon Empire. The $3.99 app includes wilderness cartography by George R.R. Martin's cartographer and 9 complete city maps, all in high resolution. It's available here.

 

[kitsune9]

What will be cool is when someone creates a fully interactive continent or kingdom. Want to see the world as a whole? Check. Zoom into the campaign setting itself? Check. Zoom into a city, village, or town? Check. Zoom into various locales such as dungeons, druid groves, ruins, etc.? Check. Want to add your own maps and pin to locations or add maps from modules? Check and check.

 

[Morrus]

What will be cool is when someone creates a fully interactive continent or kingdom. Want to see the world as a whole? Check. Zoom into the campaign setting itself? Check. Zoom into a city, village, or town? Check. Zoom into various locales such as dungeons, druid groves, ruins, etc.? Check. Want to add your own maps and pin to locations or add maps from modules? Check and check.

I think someone did. They called it "Google Earth"!

 

[Blackwarder]

I wrote a review of the app this morning, you can find it here along with some remarks from the Kobold Overlord himself!

Warder

 

[kitsune9]

I think someone did. They called it "Google Earth"!

Something far better than that. All that is just point and click, get a map and zoom in on it. If the map wasn't created with vectors, then the resolution becomes terrible.

What I propose kind of the same premise, but it will work more like Google maps than Google Earth.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Let's start with this sort of app for every popular game world. I know we're unlikely to see one for Ptolus and Praemal or Freeport, but I'd buy them in a heartbeat. I know WotC's worlds would be popular as well.

 

[Plageman]

Bought the app. It's okhay but for the price I expected something more than a high quality image. More interaction (and no, I don't care about the clouds...), even some simple footnote about each location or a way to calculate distance between two cities would be helpfull.

 

[IronWolf]

I put a mini-review of the app up at The Iron Tavern on Sunday night. I included a few additional screen shots as well:

The Iron Tavern - Mini-Review: Midgard iPad Atlas

 

[Monkey King]

Plageman, a printed poster map is usually about $20. A world atlas is usually about $20 to $50, depending on quality.

I think a super-high-res world map for $3.99 is a great deal. Plus, we'll be adding more city maps to the current 10, and more interactive elements as well.

So.... Feedback noted!