The way ahead

The demo is out, and I want to reveal some plans for the future. Some of the priorities will be driven if/when I get some feedback on the demo version on what people would like to see, but I have many plans of my own as well. So, here's what I want to do!

• Do some minor work on rivers, in an attempt to remove the most ridiculous-looking ones.
• Create a second map theme, which will most likely be an aged, wrinkled, parchment-like theme.
• Aim for fully-flexible map sizes.
• Support both 32-bit and 64-bit.
• Create consistent textures that appear the same, independent of map sizes.
• Add serialization to map objects. This in itself doesn't offer much, but with proper serialization in place, I can:
• Load and store map objects (not images)
• Allow users to customize the different layers applied to a map
• Manually place cities, labels ++
• Add various post-processing effects.
• Create a full UI experience.
• Improve the random name generator significantly.
• Improve the language libraries significantly.
• Create a proper installer.

Further down the road when I am happy with the application itself, the goal is to keep adding more interesting and unique themes.

So you can see, there's enough to do!