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The aldeia Project (with a lowercase letter) aims at making the map of Aldeia (with an uppercase letter), the planet on which the adventures of the French role playing-game Magie Éternelle are taking place. More precisely, it aims at making a cartographer (a software to design maps) for maps in general and for the map of Aldeia in particular.

Abstract

The aldeia Project was born somewhere in 2003, while I was creating Magie Éternelle, a role-playing game. I wanted some maps of the universe, so I started to search for a good cartographer. I only found AutoREALM that was more designed to make small and quick maps. So I decided to make my own software: this is the aldeia Project.

The main task of the aldeia Project is to make a cartographer, based on a new XML dialect that was especially invented for that purpose. This new format is called XAM, it means what you want : Xml for Aldeia's Map or Xam Ain't a Map or whatever. The goal of this format is to be a simple, scalable, cooperative and extensible format (yes, all that). There is a library and a CLI to handle the format.

In the same time, the aldeia Project is a repository for the official map of Aldeia. The map of Aldeia is a test for a large scale real map.

In the long term, I would like the aldeia Project to be a big laboratory to design map easily, with a powerful GUI and a good format. So if you are interested in the project, don't hesitate to contact me, even if you want to change everything (I already did that several times).

Screenshots

Here some examples of maps processed with aldeia. See the download section for downloading the related files.

Download

From the download area

You can download the tarball aldeia-X.Y.Z.tar.gz (where X.Y.Z is the current version) directly from the GNA! dowload area. Then, you can compile with the traditional commands:

./configure
make
make install

From SVN

You can use the SVN version of the project. Normally, it should compile too :) Here are the few commands to do it:

svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/aldeia/trunk aldeia
cd aldeia
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install

Examples of files

You can test the program with some already made maps. These are small maps designed for tests, but they are a good start.

Mailing List

If you want to participate in the development of the project, you can subsribe to the developper mailing list of the aldeia Project. If you have a question or a remark, you should use the same mailing-list.

Thanks

Thanks to:

• Gna! for the hosting of the aldeia Project: you are doing a great job !
• Lucas for the layout of this page (the same in brown, green on cream, red on light yellow).