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Battle Map Studio

Battle Map Studio is a playful map editor and RPG sandbox. Have fun painting forests, constructing and furnishing houses, and creating characters and monsters. Build solo or collaborate in real time online with multiple players to bring your world to life.

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Developer
Bradley Shepherd
Publisher
Bradley Shepherd, Harken Studio
Release
October 20, 2021
4 years and 287 days ago
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Positive12 reviews91.7%

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About the Game

Battle Map Studio is a playful map editor and RPG sandbox that makes world building fun, simple, and social. Use a variety of practical and amusing tools to paint forests and rivers, generate mountains, and construct houses. Build solo or collaborate with multiple players in real time online to bring your world to life!

With a growing collection of props, furniture pieces, and items to build with, you can let your imagination run wild while decorating castles, inns, and dungeons. When you’re finished building, set the mood and time of day using the light and fog controls. Then, populate your world with characters and creatures to set the stage for playing RPG campaigns.

With Battle Map Studio, you can...


  • Paint elevation, trees, and rocks, with a resizable brush, paint bucket, blaster, or draggable area.
  • Build in Column or Voxel mode.
  • Change scene lighting, fog, and time of day.
  • Build multistory forts and dungeons and furnish them with a variety of props.
  • Work in square or hex coordinates.
  • Scale, rotate, and reposition props and characters.
  • Quickly create rooms, tiles, and entrances with the auto-room tool.
  • Experiment with fun and procedural tools to generate large environments in a flash.
  • Export environment block geometry as a 3D model.


  • Join up with friends online to build maps together in real-time.
  • Connect your Hero Forge account and import minis.
  • Import your own custom models to use as characters or props (FBX, OBJ, STL, and .unity3d).
  • Import image files to use as 2D props or character tokens (PNG and JPG).
  • Share your maps on the Steam Workshop.
  • Play Battle Map Studio on Tilt Five™.


  • Place characters and monsters that can move and attack.
  • Roll 3D dice and automatically add up rolls.
  • Create and edit character sheets for tabletop role-playing games.
  • Use the fog of war system for team-only line of sight.
  • Snap top-down screenshots of maps for printing or using with other tabletop simulators.
  • Assign player roles like GM and player to better facilitate campaigns.
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