It took my pretty low-end computer a second or two each map. They look pretty good and fairly realistic. I did notice perfect hexagonal islands appearing every five or so maps, which was interesting. Roughly how does it work? I worked on generating random maps for my now frozen TBS project, and it would be interesting to hear your overall method.

It's a bit weird, but I'll try to explain it best I can.

The basic gist of it is the generator spitting out random patches of "earth" on a map of water. The patches are mutilations of hexagons, which is a result of using my heuristic to determine the basic shape and size of the land patches. That'd explain the hexagonal islands you described. Alterable variables include random size generators, and how much the generator is to favor trying to place earth on existing earth instead of water. I could send you the code if you want, but it's vague and uncommented.

I'll actually probably be ditching the code eventually. It's horribly inefficient, and a little too limited for my liking. But it got my brain flowing, so.

Pretty cool; I should write a land generator too and we can have a hoedown.