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Creating an island doesn’t have to be something you do in one session, nor does it have to be anything that you spend a lot of time on: it’s your island, it should be right for you! There are many ways to create and explore an island: a drawing, a collage or a map,a piece…

To add your island to our archipelago, email hello@autisticyouthhub.org.uk – you can send us many formats: a photograph, digital image, document, PDF, a link to something online or just words in an email! Untitled, island poem One day we decided to run far awayAnd set up an island for us both to stay We camped on…

Island Name Generatorhttps://www.imagineforest.com/blog/island-name-generator Flag designerhttps://tennessine.co.uk/flags/ Flag creatorhttps://flag-creator.com/ Community rules governance toolkithttps://communityrule.info/ Law generatorhttps://www.rangen.co.uk/world/lawgen.php Dystopian plot generatorhttps://www.plot-generator.org.uk/create.php?type=17 Rune generatorhttps://watabou.itch.io/rune-generator Name generatorhttps://www.name-generator.org.uk/ Useful random generators for a range of topics!https://perchance.org/useful-generators

Islandoodle – free mouse-driven island creatorhttps://mattstark.itch.io/islandoodle Random biome generatorhttps://perchance.org/fiction-biomes BBC sound effects / soundscape generatorhttps://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/ Beepbox online music sketchbookhttps://www.beepbox.co/ World Anvil, world-building toolkit, registration requiredhttps://www.worldanvil.com/dashboard/ Very basic randomised setting generators https://donjon.bin.sh City creatorhttps://citycreator.com/

Metro Map Maker: train and tubehttps://metromapmaker.com Metro designerhttps://tennessine.co.uk/metro/ Metro Dreamin’https://metrodreamin.com/explore Rail map toolkithttps://railmapgen.github.io/ Bus line designerhttps://buslinedesigner.bobliu.tech/

This project was partly inspired by our love of Animal Crossing so here’s some other island and world-building games that you might enjoy! The Quiet Year – map-building table-top game using a deck of cardshttps://buriedwithoutceremony.com/the-quiet-year The Lonesome Cartographer – tarot-based solo table-top game https://wren-the-forrester.itch.io/the-lonesome-cartographer My Island – board gamehttps://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359394/my-island Tiny Islands – free map-maker puzzle…

(The info dump section!) Atlas Obscura Readers Draw Their Personal Fantasy Islandshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/readers-draw-fantasy-islands All about the 93 countries that are islandshttps://blog.batchgeo.com/island-countries-mapped/ A selection of user-generated island artworks (illustrations, music, textures, etc)https://opengameart.org/art-search-advanced?keys=island Deviant Art – submissions tagged ‘island’https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=island The Animal Crossing default start map layouts (all 95 of them)https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalCrossing/comments/g7mc0c/all_possible_default_map_layouts/ Animal Crossing: 15 Hilariously Creative Island Mapshttps://gamerant.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-fun-unique-maps/ An…

Outlines of different countries which make lovely island shapeshttps://www.worldmapsonline.com/map-outlines Open-source app for creating simple grid-based maps for gameshttps://www.mipui.net More sophisticated online map-making platformhttps://inkarnate.com Fantasy map creatorhttps://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/ City map generatorhttps://maps.probabletrain.com/#/

A collaborative project of creative workshops and resources to support health and wellbeing between A Collective and members of our Autistic Youth Hub. Whilst all of us have our own unique mix of traits, likes and dislikes, as neurodivergent people, we also recognise aspects of ourselves in each other and share much common ground. We…