About five years ago, there used to be a site called Irony Games that hosted a variety of useful map generator tools (Non-functional list of tools shown here). Have these tools ever been re-hosted elsewhere or are they lost forever? A quick Google search found a lot of dead ends.
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I've looked more than once for replacements for their tools over the last few years. I've found a couple of decent replacements for certain items at sites such as Inkwell Ideas, which has decent random generators for inns, cities, magic shops, villages and small dungeon maps. There are other good resources here and there as well to replace the tools that Irony offered. As to what happened to the original Irony Games site, it just up and disappeared one day. I've never found re-hosted copies of the original tools they had there. I've seen various theories about what happened from legal problems to the owner died, but I've never found an "official" reason. |
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Most are probably lost to the public; the author may or may not have backups of the backend scripts that actually do the heavy lifting. Most could be readily recreated from scratch by a competent programmer, as well. Several have been, by Inkwell ideas. |
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The irony games generator is long gone, as far as I can tell. When it dissapeared, I started coding my own generators. I guess they'd be better if I dedicated a bit more time to them, but at least they help me with my games (they might be useful for you too). And if you don't like them, check my "about" page. I try to link to other people's generators. |
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