The concept of world building is nothing new, but few tools offers the creative freedom and mathematical rigour of Fantasy Planet Painter. By focusing on large land masses, we can think more in terms of overall forms and continent shapes, and not be bothered by details that we can polish latter, once we have the big features.

It’s useful to think of land mass formation from the movement of plate tectonics, and let randomized algorithms handle subtle details of shorelines at this stage.

When we are satisfied with the large features, we can start working on fine tuning the shorelines, adding lakes and rivers, and even customizing our biomes!