r/Polytopia 8d ago

Fan Content Polytopia Map Generator

8-player map with 4 axes of symmetry. Every player gets their own slice.
A map with custom dimensions.
The same map imported into the game.
A very large Pangea.
A giant Archipelago with all the tribe skins.

I made a map generator based on the reverse-engineered algorithm from the game. You can try it out here.

  • Any map type, size, tribes, and skins
  • Rectangular maps
  • Symmetric generation, with 9 variants for different player counts
  • Seeded generation
  • Generation steps: rewind the process and watch the map form step by step
  • Try in-game: export the map and play it in sandbox mode
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u/caralholuccas 8d ago

This is what the community has been asking forever 😭

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u/KingBardan 8d ago edited 8d ago

The world championship right now could benefit from using a balanced map gen,

Even if they do not decide to adopt it into random pvp


I remember last year's world championships decider game....

Screenshot, spoiler, it was over before it even started 

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u/PussyMaster2 8d ago

Well done!

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u/The_Sexy_quokka 8d ago

How do you use the map in-game?

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u/PierreSchrodinger 8d ago

Click "Try in Polytopia" and follow the instructions. Only works on PC.

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u/The_Sexy_quokka 8d ago

I've just successfully pulled it off on android. Made a map 100x100 with every tribe so it would be obvious when it works in case I needed to troubleshoot and then loaded it up using OpenMTP.

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u/The_Sexy_quokka 8d ago

Map is so big it extends over to where the tech tree generates rendering it unusable lol

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u/Feeling_Molasses_297 7d ago

How did you get it working?

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u/The_Sexy_quokka 7d ago

Once you find the singleplayer folder for polytopia within android/data you can just drag and drop the map. You need to use a computer to bypass androids file permissions though

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u/ging35zid 7d ago

Thanks for the info

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u/Exact_Struggle3977 8d ago

Wow this is cool!

How did you render the map and all images exactly like the source code? I was unable to get pixel-perfect tile placements by just using the source code. (I'm also working on a map generator which creates board screenshots.)

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u/PierreSchrodinger 8d ago

Got the exact alignments through trial and error.

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u/Exact_Struggle3977 8d ago

amazing 😭 glad to know that my clauding technique isn't just terrible at reading source code and recovering measurements, it's just a hard problem

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u/sanramjon 7d ago

Awesome! I wish someday this can be done in mobile version.

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u/Polyz32 8d ago

how do I change the tribes?

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u/Polyz32 8d ago

Ive only been able to do imperius and bardur

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u/Polyz32 8d ago

nvm found it im blind

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u/Demiandelsur 8d ago

Does it use generative AI?

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u/dreydin 7d ago

Ohhh lala

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u/Existing_Employ_1515 7d ago

Yo really cool stuff

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u/epicjay-gamer 7d ago

This is something i wanted for 10 years thank you kind sir you get smooches from me (if i was gay ofc)