{"id":540,"date":"2023-01-20T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T00:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/?p=540"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T00:13:02","slug":"quelepa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/quelepa\/","title":{"rendered":"Quelepa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s low-effort bragpost, I&#8217;m sharing my pre-modern ceremonial capital, Quelepa. The plan that I had, long ago, was to create this circa 1400&#8217;s city, in the style of maybe a Mayan or Aztec city, and then overlay a modern city over it, using a historical mapping process. But I never got around to it, so the city is still there, in a kind of anachronistic reservation within the otherwise modern country of Ardesfera. That explains the bit of railroad seen in the lower left of the screenshot.<\/p>\n<p>I was especially pleased with the city because it conformed to the already-drawn contours (topo) for the region. I also did some minor work on a conlang for the culture involved, which I used to name all the various temples included.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/generalsemiotics.net\/img\/2023\/202301\/Luciano_Screenshot_Quelepa_20230120.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px;\" title=\"picture\" src=\"https:\/\/generalsemiotics.net\/img\/2023\/202301\/Luciano_Screenshot_Quelepa_20230120.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of the zoomable map on the OpenGeofiction.net website, showing a pre-modern ceremonial city with detailed buildings and walls, and a background showing the contour lines of the area's physical topography.\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a link to the zoomable map: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opengeofiction.net\/#map=16\/-21.7931\/121.6496&amp;layers=V\">https:\/\/opengeofiction.net\/#map=16\/-21.7931\/121.6496&amp;layers=V<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week&#8217;s low-effort bragpost, I&#8217;m sharing my pre-modern ceremonial capital, Quelepa. The plan that I had, long ago, was to create this circa 1400&#8217;s city, in the style of maybe a Mayan or Aztec city, and then overlay a modern city over it, using a historical mapping process. But I never got around to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2023\/01\/20\/quelepa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Quelepa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ardesfera","category-low-effort-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}