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Plan your world together, live.

The free shared map canvas for RPG campaigns and game dev teams. No accounts, no subscription, self-hosted.

Free forever. Your support helps fund our own indie MMO, Mortumus.

This is live, open it with a friend and paint the same map together.

One canvas. Everyone painting at once.

No accounts, no lock-in. Open it together and block out your world in minutes.

Live collaboration, zero setup

Share a link and edit the same map together, live cursors, instant updates, nothing to install or sign up for.

Free forever, no accounts

No sign-up, no subscription, no cloud lock-in. Your maps live in plain files on your own machine.

Built for real worlds

Paint zones, stack dungeon layers under the overworld, drop 130+ markers, and grow the map as big as you need.

130+ markers Dungeon layers 100-step undo JSON & PNG export Touch & tablet White-label Dual-unit measure Live minimap See the full feature list →

Two tables, one shared canvas

Campaign or game build, you're planning a world with someone else. Here's how it fits each.

For your campaign

You and your co-DM sketch the region together, then layer dungeons right under the overworld. Mark encounters, towns and secrets, and export a PNG straight into your session notes or Discord. It even works on a tablet at the table.

For your game team

Block out your world before anyone opens the engine. A fixed 1:10 grid (one cell = 10 world units) and dual-unit measuring mean the layout you plan here lines up with the coordinates in your engine, like Unity. A Unity bridge is in development, tell us if you'd use it.

Any genre, any world

Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, anything, every world here is painted from its own custom zone types and 130+ markers. No theme packs to install: define your palette, then paint.

A fantasy overworld mapped in Map Blueprint
Fantasy overworld
An alien world with custom crystal and fungal zones
Alien biosphere, custom zones
A volcanic hellscape with lava and obsidian zones
Volcanic hellscape, custom zones
A frozen ice world with glacier and aurora zones
Frozen ice world, custom zones

Who makes this

Map Blueprint is built by Fin and Al, the two-person team behind the MMORPG Mortumus. We built it to plan our own game's world: we needed a fast, shared way to sketch maps together without firing up a heavy editor. It worked so well that we cleaned it up and gave it away, for any group that just wants to plan a world together.

Up and running in three steps

No account, no checkout. Download the app, run it, share the link. Unlimited, self-hosted, and yours.

1

Download one file

Grab the download for your system, Windows, Mac or Linux. There's nothing to install.

2

Double-click it

It opens in your browser and asks you to pick a group password (or skip it). That's the whole setup.

3

Share the link

Create a map, send your group the link, and start painting together.

Questions

Is this hosted for me, or do I run it?

You run it, and it's genuinely easy. Download one file, double-click it, and it opens in your browser. Your maps stay on your own computer, and there's no account and no subscription.

Do I need to be technical to set it up?

No. If you can unzip a file and double-click a program, you're done. The first screen just asks you to pick a password for your group (or skip it).

How do my remote players or co-DM join me?

Everyone opens the same link in a browser and sees the map update live. On the same Wi-Fi, that link just works. To play with people elsewhere, one free command gives your map a public https:// link you can share, no router setup and no account. The download includes a short, plain-English guide.

Where is my data stored?

In plain JSON files in a data/ folder you control. Back it up by copying the folder, or export individual maps to JSON from the dashboard.

Is it free for big groups and commercial use?

Yes, free for everyone, any group or team size, commercial use included. There's no per-seat anything. If it helps your table or your studio, a donation keeps us building.

What are the system requirements?

Just a modern browser. The app is a single self-contained program, no Docker, no Node, nothing else to install. Runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.

How do I get the app?

Hit Download, unzip it, and run the program for your system. No account, no checkout, no waiting.

Do I get updates?

Yes, updates are free. Just grab the latest download whenever you like, or ping us on Discord and we'll point you to it.

Do I have to pay or donate?

No, it's genuinely free, forever. Donations are completely optional and just help us keep going.

How can I support you?

If Map Blueprint helps you, donate anything via PayPal. It goes straight into building our indie MMO, Mortumus, and we're grateful for anything at all.

Get in touch

Reach us on Discord, ask questions, get help, or just say hi. We're active and happy to help.

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