Dungeondraft 1 Year Later - How Does it Hold Up?

Today we're taking a look at Dungeondraft to see how the program holds up after its first year in development.
Is it still the best option for encounter maps?
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[@IcarusGames]

Do you like maps. Do you want a copy of dungeondraft? Anyone who is subscribed to the channel and comments on this video will be entered into the giveaway to win a copy!

[@adammetc]

I'm sure I sometimes spend longer trying to find a pre-done map that meets my needs than I would if I actually made one myself...

[@IcarusGames]

I know that feeling!

[@ryangraber6099]

Same here, thats why im here on this video about to buy DD 7 months after your comment lol

[@suthekb14]

Dungeondraft looks like really solid software, and so glad it doesn't do the subscription model.

[@NickPierson]

I'll second the DungeonDraft recommendation. Super useful for quick and easy maps that look exactly how they do in your head (rather than trying to dig up the one that's JUST right somewhere online)

[@mizzrum7591]

Yeah, Dungeondraft and Wonderdraft both awesome tools to have as DM. You can make great make for your game under 15-20 min that look amazing.

[@TelynEthuil]

I TOTALLY agree with the light interaction with all objects. It's something I really hope they work on, and Megasploot is really good at listening to their consumers.

[@felixbjerhemaronsson8253]

This is exactly what I've been looking for! Lacking any real art skills, it would greatly help to make encounter maps for my players (and me) to enjoy! Just like Wonderdraft did for world maps! ;P

[@xordoom8467]

Awesome walk-thru... Thank you!!

[@TheDamnEnigma]

Thanks for the update!

[@intrepidadventuring]

I've been a huge fan of DungeonDraft since you first recommended it! Great to see it continuing to evolve!

[@MD-ch3sw]

My favourite bit was the accidental "wonderdraft". Just getting started in d&d and amazed at how good some of the resources are and dungeon draft looks perfect!

[@rossandrews5961]

I need this in my life, hopefully gonna start running D&D again soon!

[@xagric1840]

Great video as always! Keep up the good work and I'm waiting for more on your D&D game!

[@IcarusGames]

Glad you enjoyed! There will be more story time videos coming! :D

[@Tisonb0y]

I can imagine great scenes in my mind but have no skill to draw them out. For the longest time I've been using premade maps to cover that gap, but I'm excited to see a tool that is so easy to use! Thank you for the content and for showing me this incredible tool!

[@Bloodlesstheimmortal]

This would be so much better than my hand-drawn maps, I have the art talent of a 6 year old

[@Himmyjewett]

13 and well same

[@brucewayne1712]

very helpful video. thx!!!

[@mattmagnell2312]

Been looking into both wonderdraft and dungeondraft, so this video came at a great time. I have started working on my first homebrew setting and recently found your videos, glad I have!

[@IcarusGames]

Glad I could help!

[@georgerothwell5121]

Excellent video as always Anto!

[@IcarusGames]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Gortrok]

I recently found your channel a couple of months ago and have really been enjoying the content! I actually found it because I was looking into Wonderdraft and Dungeondraft for my campaign I just started DMing. I'd love a copy of Dungeondraft, but otherwise, keep the great tips coming :)

[@TheArskason]

Have been having my eye out for this and the sister software Wonderdraft quite a while! Glad to see it improving.

[@brettlongworth5861]

Handy review. Cheers.

[@mowup6912]

Seems like a very nice map maker, thanks for the informational video!

[@vanguldenstein7525]

Just found your channel and subscribed instantly! You deserve a bigger audience!

[@IcarusGames]

Excellent, my spell was successful! Happy to have you here :)

[@domie_]

awesome video!

[@alsitte]

started using it maybe 3 weeks ago and i am really digging it so quick to make nice looking maps

[@oscar-wh6yv]

I haven’t heard of this before, but it seems very useful and I could easily see myself using it for weekly dnd sessions

[@CrankyOldNerd]

I’ve been debating picking this up now that I discovered Foundry. Being able to build a map that works in the VTT almost seamless would be really nice.

[@kitkatwitch]

I use Foundry and Dungeondraft together. They work really well with the Dungeondraft importer mod. Saved me so much time.

[@ethanallan1114]

Bought Wonderdraft a few days ago after watching a couple of your videos on it. Have loved it to and have made some serious upgrades to my game since. Dungeondraft is most certainly on the wish list now.

[@llothos]

always good videos

[@dominiccarlin8659]

About to DM my first campaign, would love to be able to use a tool like this to do it! Thanks for the review man, it's a great help.

[@mailorderginger]

This is a crazy piece of technology! I would love to surprise my friends with maps like this hahaha! Awesome of you to do a giveaway!

[@Skraete22]

Nice Video! Dungeondraft seems really cool! I have only used Dungeon Scrawl so far, which has a good amount of Dungeondraft objects included. I will definitely use more online tools in the forseeable future as the maps look way better then the once I can draw on our grid :D

[@alignmentunknown3156]

I actually like the look of the base assets better than the custom ones. I use this program. I love it! Great review.

[@cynosurewolf]

This looks pretty great. Thanks.

[@lumiel666]

Great video :)

[@RobertWF42]

For advanced lighting options, like furniture and pillar shadows radiating away from a light source, Campaign Cartographer 3 offers a lot of fancy features. But it's expensive and has a significant learning curve - it uses an interface based on the CAD software that isn't intuitive.

[@TheCrossman113]

Looking forward to checking out dungeon draft!

[@companyoflosers]

aside from bug fixes, honestly the best addition to the toolset has been the community made assets that has now had time to fill out. Originally the program didn't even have objects to insert into your maps but not only does it have them now, theres a wealth of free assets you can downloads from the community. you used to have to make your map, then load it into photoshop and place object assets yourself. I WILL say I wish the wall shadows could be toggled off since many community packs give you shadows you can manually place yourself which can look better than the ones the tool makes itself, especially when it overlaps shadows in places like corners or on smaller areas where you place invisible walls to block light. ALSO I wish it were possible to fill in blank space between especially thick walls with like solid stone or wall material or something.

[@Kezzeract]

Man, Megasploot really is a miracle worker for DMs. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the assets that come with Dungeondraft were all drawn by his wife, which is adorable if true 😊 Great vid, as usual!

[@IcarusGames]

Yeah, I think all the assets are done by his wife :D

[@MoonbreakerGames]

I do like how it has improved looking through your videos. Would love a copy to actually play with it myself. As I do a couple of games online maps are big.

[@maurovilla347]

Hey, thanks for the review. I'm still a bit undecided between DungeonDraft and the new Dungeon Painter Studio, and this helped me a lot!

[@dwyerd4532]

Man, a lucky win might wash away my Canadian winter blues! Plus, always nice to have a new tool to inspire creativity 👌

[@Ellohir]

Awesome review! Prefabs can definitely be a game changer for this program 👍🏼

[@Phleanix]

I bought Wonderdraft and Dungeondraft almost exclusively off the back of your older videos. I still think they're both incredible programs - bonus points for being "one and done" when it comes to price - I wasn't aware about Pre-Fabs... but this is an eye opener! Love it! The future is bright.

[@IcarusGames]

I really need to sit down and make some prefabs to speed up future builds!

[@MrZriael]

Great to see how far this program has come! It's lookin' top-notch. A little trick I've seen done before, If you ctrl+c while you have a group of items selected, then you can ctrl+v it into notepad, or a comment-box or w/e. That text can then be copied by another user and pasted into existence in the engine. Does this work with prefabs? This could be a functional way to share 'em nice and easy anyway, a Reddit post with just a screencap of the prefab and pasted text in the post for instance. I'd love to check myself but I don't own the program, fingers crossed for the giveaway! haha.

[@DkillerKills]

I didn't know that Dungeondraft had come that far actually! Looks amazingly good now! :o

[@ellen2321]

I didn't realize they had added so much in the last year. I should look into this again.

[@danielben8446]

One of the biggest perks to me has been being able to export the maps directly to Foundry VTT with walls and lighting already there. And I agree, the asset packs have helped immensely with building scenes, the ones from Crosshead have been some of my favorites so far.

[@briancielatka7321]

Very informational video

[@IcarusGames]

Glad it was helpful!

[@SimonBarnes]

Wow, a year already! And has only gotten better.

[@elijahlovegreen594]

I’ve been using wonderdraft for large scale maps ever since I saw a video of yours on it. This product looks just as rad.

[@Beldarak]

As someone who uses both, I find Dungeondraft to be even better. It's a more refined experience and is much more nice to use imho. thhat said, I'm still using both as they don't cover the same needs.

[@gregorycook3550]

Totally great program (of what I have witnessed thus far) and so much creativity left to explore. Advanced lighting/shadow effects: yes. That would be really nice. Unsure if avail, perhaps some curving effects in terms of structures? More stone effects (different colors, designs?) like for paths (again if not already within the program). I am still reviewing all the vids on this program and admittedly I do not own it yet (unless I win it!). That being said, thank you for the update!

[@sanguinius_4652]

Oh wow, this is exactly the sort of software I've been looking for for a campaign I'm making!

[@kamil261]

I really enjoy making maps for my online games - glad that we have 1.0 version and many people contribute to this app:)

[@zorara]

As a DM in these trying times of the age of social distancing this software would go a long way in helping my group and I play some amazing games online.

[@ormendel1]

What a great tool! a real time saver. Would really help if one could sort and categorize the Prefabs, for quick and easy access.

[@fabiomagalhaes3737]

Definitely adding to my next acquisition list! Love the idea of the prefabs, though the categorization/organization of them seems may become a bit cluttered. A subfolder system would help on this.

[@30garynye]

I just found out about dungeondraft yesterday. Your videos have helped decide to buy it. I also looked into a few asset packs. Cant wait to start building my own maps for my campaigns. This will make my players enjoy the game a lot more.

[@IcarusGames]

I hope you have loads of fun with it. Happy holidays!

[@thegreatdane908]

I would love to be able to take map making to the next level, especially running campaigns online!

[@MafkACE]

Awesome! Would love to check this out vs Arkenforge. Arkenforge is not "ready" yet as a whole but as a dungeonbuilder it really has given me hours and hours of fun.

[@RadekG]

Nice video, thanks :)

[@IcarusGames]

Glad you liked it!

[@DerpyLaron]

First time I hear of it and it seems really good. I agree with you that the other assets look great, but just for basic maps the standard seems fine. The option to creat groups that you can save is soooooo good. I can't count how often I wished Roll20 would have something like that build in.

[@sprx153]

I really like the UI of Dungeondraft. Seems to be very userfriendly and easy to learn. a must for every DM

[@JcGreen]

I used ArkenForge, but I really love the customization that is available with this program. I think I might have to switch over once my PCs wrap up our current campaign.

[@PirateMF]

Love the Forgotten Adventures assets. Once remade Cragmaw Cave in Dungeon Painter Studio, looked amazing!

[@kk2711]

I am trying to decide on purchasing Dungeondraft after full diving into Wonderdraft recently. Thanks for the year later update video! Most of the other videos I've seen are getting a bit outdated.

[@IcarusGames]

Glad I could help!

[@Dominic_hello]

great vid keep up the work! rolling for the giveaway :)

[@alandcapelari]

Awesome content! I knew dungeondraft through your channel, I hope to win the contest and get a copy to myself.

[@nerdycoala3767]

Thanks for giving a headsup on the content of the tool. Right now checking if its the right thing for me :-)

[@dualcarnage7299]

As a DM wannabe Wanderdraft + Dungeondraft seems like an amazing way to start making cool maps.

[@gaberockmain]

Oh Dungeon Draft would be perfect to draw some of the locations in my world!

[@mr.rabbit8872]

this would be incredible

[@chrisormie]

I love how much of a gamechanger both Dungeondraft and Wonderdraft are for DMs like myself.

[@theblackreaper400]

looks good how would you compare it to other map making tools?

[@butchtakamura]

This was great! I use Wonderdraft, but this looks good too.

[@SwindleNL]

Seems like a very useful tool for my adventures!

[@alparkinson6210]

Starting to think about making a hombrew world for a new campaign. This was a great video.

[@ranty_fugue]

Sounds pretty great. Would love to hear details on the story for how sharing works. In particular, sharing whole maps and assets as well (for example, how did you get the FA assets?)

[@IcarusGames]

You can get them here: www.patreon.com/forgottenadventures

[@izaiha2425]

Watched this video while making a regional map on Inkarnate. Next time I'll be making one in Dungeondraft if I'm lucky :P

[@Dillonx37]

Glad to see another video on this. PS not looking to win as I already have this. Just wanted to comment.

[@Carlos_Ortiz_]

Great review. Dungeondraft is a awesome software and pretty easy to use.

[@joesmith6560]

Making maps is usually such a headache so I'd love to try out Dungeondraft. It looks like Dungeondraft would make the process so much simpler and quicker.

[@Vrailful]

I would love to try out Dungeondraft.

[@cameronrussell9677]

This looks really good, seems a lot more straight forward to use than Dungeon Painter Studio. Should be able to turn out little maps so much easier.

[@inakiiribarrenlineros8594]

It seems very useful

[@Bobio]

Just found your original DungeonDraft video before watching this one. Very nicely presented and informative content! Really tempted to use this for a new TTRPG campaign I'm setting up. Wonder if anyone's making sci-fi assets/packs...

[@IcarusGames]

Congratulations Bob, the giveaway gods have smiled upon you and you've won! Please take a screenshot of the notification of this comment and email it over to [e-mail] along with the email address you would like your copy of Dungeondraft sending to :D As for sci fi assets, I'm pretty sure there are some on cartographassets.com!

[@Bobio]

@@IcarusGames Wah! This is incredible! Thank you so much!! I'm absolutely buzzing to get started with it :D

[@viiv7902]

I'm relatively new to Dungeons and Dragons, butt I've been looking for tools to DM with, and having already used wonderdraft for my continental maps I won't be surprised if this works out even better for small scale endeavours

[@faustaslabanauskas5238]

Would love to have this to assist in running the games!

[@Mando_BLaB]

The software looks awesome, I think I would like to pick it up if I end up doing more home brew campaigns.

[@extremepuppet5558]

As someone who has zero art skills, a tool like this would be incredible. My players would finally get to see something not made by mouse on gimp every session,

[@Beavermancer]

I was just watching your 1 year review of wondercraft and thought I was seeing things when I saw this on my subscriptions

[@bekradan458]

Great Vid. Completely agree, if objects cast shadows I think that would be over for the competition. Dungeon Painter is beginning to start to play with this in terms of walls and how they cast shadows in a realistic manner. All in all these apps are fantastic and are only getting better... with the exception of some legacy VTT services I could mention ;)

[@IcarusGames]

I assume there's some technical limitation, but it's the thing I've wanted since day 1.

[@conceptarthur]

Just recently discorvered this software, which is a HUGE time saver for DMs! Crossing my fingers for that giveaway!

[@LikeMadCops]

As a huge fan of Dungeondraft, I knew the answer but still had to watch it.

[@NegatveSpace]

Having looked at a few different programs, dungeon draft does look the most appealing but I still don't like the 2d walls and it seems all programs do this. I wouldn't mind thicker walls and have them look a little bit isometric so one can see what type of surface they're looking at.

[@catoncoldicott2124]

I would love a copy.

[@rustytoasteroven]

Just generally more assets built in and thus matching the art style and of course improved stability would be what I want out of future updates. I'm sure there are custom assets for this, but the minimalism of the art style works really well with the printer friendly filter so I can use these maps IRL (been trying to get the game to have fewer screens).

[@straydogzero827]

This looks pretty cool, especially with FA's assets.

[@lalanunu]

Where do you get the forgotten adventures assets?? I need those in my life asap haha

[@IcarusGames]

You can get them here: www.patreon.com/forgottenadventures

[@davec1]

I got Campaign Cartographer a while ago in a HumbleBundle, but this looks easier to use and since I don't want to start a mapmaking career, just have a quick way to create maps for a rpg campaign, this might be for me.

[@deadmon9625]

for someone like me who really love mapmaking stuff and is very new at this, I believe it would be a great and easy way to make the kind of stuff i love to make :D and yes, I want that giveaway XD