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# Generate Medieval City Maps with This Online Tool
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/
- Published: 2017-11-22T21:29:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:45:32.000Z
- Description: The Medieval Fantasy City Generator is an online application that endlessly generates random medieval city maps.
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Digital Art, Interactive, Maps, Medieval, Review, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)
Medieval Fantasy City Generator (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)
With the [*Medieval Fantasy City Generator*](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator?ref=hyperallergic.com), you can generate endless maps of walled cities, complete with castles and winding waterways. The free online generator, developed by [Oleg Dolya](https://twitter.com/watawatabou?ref=hyperallergic.com), allows for layouts like “citadel” and “plaza,” with options for city size, whether small, medium, or large.
The *Medieval Fantasy City Generator*, recently shared by [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net/2017/11/20/medieval-city-plan-generator.html?ref=hyperallergic.com), has been available in [Itch.io](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator?ref=hyperallergic.com) for a few months. It continues to be updated with new features, such as [rivers](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/devlog/11802/050-rivers-and-basic-house-shapes?ref=hyperallergic.com), [house shapes](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/devlog/11802/050-rivers-and-basic-house-shapes?ref=hyperallergic.com), [shanty towns](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/devlog/7063/042-shanty-towns-and-more-options?ref=hyperallergic.com), [outskirts](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/devlog/3091/030-wall-less-layouts-city-outskirts-smooth-roads?ref=hyperallergic.com), [wall-less layouts](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/devlog/3091/030-wall-less-layouts-city-outskirts-smooth-roads?ref=hyperallergic.com), and [coastal cities. ](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator/devlog/4923/040-coastal-cities?ref=hyperallergic.com)Users can hover their mouse over different sections of the cities to see labels pop up for farms, gates, wards, and slums. The newest addition — [Toy Town](https://watabou.itch.io/toy-town?ref=hyperallergic.com) — is a 3D visualizer that involves a street-level view of the cities.
It’s similar to projects like [Uncharted Atlas](https://twitter.com/unchartedatlas?ref=hyperallergic.com), a Twitter bot that generates fantasy maps, or the [Fantasy World Generator](https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/?ref=hyperallergic.com). Dolya [notes](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator?ref=hyperallergic.com) on the generator’s site that it was created for a [monthly challenge](https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/comments/695oxj/monthly%5Fchallenge%5F17%5Fapril%5F2017%5Fprocedural/?ref=hyperallergic.com) on the [procedural generation](https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/?ref=hyperallergic.com) subreddit. The developer [adds](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator?ref=hyperallergic.com) that “the goal is to produce a nice looking map, not an accurate model of a city.”
Perhaps you could make your own [*Carcassonne*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcassonne%5F%28board%5Fgame%29?ref=hyperallergic.com)\-syle board game with it, or employ a map as a guide for a text-based RPG on a plague outbreak? Maybe pen some *Ivanhoe* fan fiction, or use a map to set up a *Dungeons & Dragons* adventure? Or you could just watch the mesmerizing arrangements of streets and walls as you augment the city structures like a digital god.
Medieval Fantasy City Generator (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)
Medieval Fantasy City Generator (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)
Medieval Fantasy City Generator (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)
[Medieval Fantasy City Generator](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator?ref=hyperallergic.com) *is available on* [*Itch.io*](https://watabou.itch.io/medieval-fantasy-city-generator?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*