Funnily enough I was discussing Steampunk with someone else on this thread just a few days ago - not here, but in private.

And what is Cyberpunk Red? From a mapping point of view, I mean. I did a brief image search on those words and all I came up with was a whole load of video game graphics, not maps.

EDIT: I added the word "map" to the search phrase and came up with a whole load of dungeon and city maps that look remarkably just like Symbol Set 3 with solid black walls and a bit more tech added in.

@Monsen Thanks Remy :) Your most recent comment is clearer than all of mine put together. It's not an exact science and pretty difficult to describe with great clarity. The arrangement varies depending on the artist. Because I am also employed part time by Profantasy as a Cartographer and Community Assistant (The latter part of that chiefly on FB where experts are a little thinner on the ground than here on the forum) it is sometimes the case that mappers think I have some kind of control over events. That is just plain wrong, though. I am an artist, and that is all I am. I can make suggestions, point to other promising artists, and offer the things I'm working on right now - just like anyone else can, but while PF are extremely good at listening and fortunately for me seem to like quite a lot of the things I do myself, I never make any of the actual decisions about what comes next or what the annual content should be.

@Wyvern Yes, having gathered the information I've been given both here and over on the FB Group I can see that I have been a bit confused about what Grimdark really is. There are some incredibly fuzzy edges to the whole description, and parts where it almost seems to cross over with what, at other times, has been described to me as Steampunk, or which seems to make Grimdark seem to be a horror version of Steampunk. That's ok. I can do that. I just hope everyone is ready for the darker shades of Mouse!

Sometimes there are second parts for the same style, like there was for the Spectrum Overland style I did last year, but it is less common for there to be an overland/dungeon style pair.

There's a scale between those two things anyway - city scale. Going straight from Overland to Dungeon scale while completely missing out City scale doesn't make sense. And since doing 3 issues of 12 in exactly the same overall style would mean dedicating 1/4 of the entire annual to just one basic style (which not everyone will be interested in) this is very unlikely to happen.

However, if enough people show an interest in a grimdark dungeon style and can show me what this actually means... There was never really an actual style for Grimdark as far as I am aware, but only a sense of atmosphere... that could be something that might appear at some point in time.

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I had an idea for a compass I thought you all might like

I like the top one, but both look good :)

@Fersus I think it will be published quite a bit sooner than that. At the moment the target date is April.

@JulianDracos @Quenten It is quite interesting that two of you have commented on the pointy hills, where over in the FB Group no one has mentioned it yet. It seems to be a matter of personal taste.