About Gozzys.com

What's all this then?

I started this site back in 2004 after the free hosting I was using to store the roleplaying game maps I was drawing was shut down. With a dynamic site I was able to add the random map creators with the "Random Room" dungeon map creator first followed by Caves then "Wandering Line" dungeons. In 2006 I added the Wilderness map creator and made regular updates until 2008 when work and my personal life took me away from updating the site. I kept swearing to do an update for years but finally got around to it in the summer of 2014. Life, family, and work got in the way again. Fast forward to late 2021 and a much needed update is in order. The first step is to fix up some of the underlying tech, then roll out full updates to all of the original random map makers.

Hang tight, this could get interesting!

Update: November 2022

A lot of work has gone into the new Battlemap generators. You can now make a map that can be used in a VTT such as Roll20 or The Forge. With the Dungeon Battlemap creator you can even download the map in Universal VTT format so you get the walls and doors in your VTT.

Next up is a complete overhaul of the site structure and pages.

Update: April 2023

Big update to the site look and feel along with new and improved generators taking centre stage. Check them out and get in touch with your comments.

Update: July 2023

Two updates to the Dungeon Map Generator.

The first was to fix a bug in the Universal VTT file output which left walls in the same place as doors. The second was to enable a tile option of "none" which allows for single colour floors in rooms.


Licensing and Attribution

Both the maps produced by the generators and the pre-made maps on this site can be reused for commercial and non-commercial purposes under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. See the linked license document for the full legal text.

That means you can use the maps in your work but you must give an attribution. The preferred form of attribution is:

Map © John Godsland https://www.gozzys.com - licensed under CC BY 4.0

On websites and in other forms of digital media please make the URL an active link to help connect your customers to Gozzys.com. (Please, no rel=nofollow). You may also make the "CC BY 4.0" part of the text link to the license at Creative Commons.

If you are making commercial products using the maps I would love to receive a digital copy of what you make although it is not required.

Note that if you simply link to a map rather than including the image in your work no credit is necessary. Having said that, please don't try to link directly to images on this server.


Get In Touch

If you'd like to get in touch send an email to webmaster@gozzys.com. (Note that this email was offline for a while so if you sent a message before and did not receive a response please accept my apology and try again.)

If you discover any problems with accessibility or with broken pages or maps please let me know.


Privacy

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Acknowledgements

This site uses a number of open source technologies and other resources that are made available through permissive licenses.

The back end of the site is built in PHP.

For PHP development I work in Apache NetBeans.

The site front-end is built with Bootstrap.

The League Gothic Regular font used in all of the headings and for the site logo was created by Caroline Hadilaksono, Micah Rich, & Tyler Finck for The League of Movable Type and is available under the SIL Open Font License.