Conquer Club

I fully realize this has more than likely been posted dozens of times, but I can't seem to find a thread with universaly agreed upon programs.

I am greately considering designing and making my own map, but I have no idea where to start, except the idea itself. I know the basic layout and gameplay options, and also have a rough sketch, but don't know what programs to start building with. I am more than willing to download programs, but would prefer not to have to pay for them, online anyways. I would consider buying and installing a fairly cheap program that I can use for more than this.

Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated. I have little experience in graphics except highschool tech courses, so easy to use/idiot friendly programs would be awesome. Once again, I am at the starting stage and ony have a hand drawn map so far I need to re draw on the computer

Thanks in advance, and again, sorry for the umpteenth post on this

P.S. I'm not looking for the entire process right now, just the start, i.e. drawing the map and getting the basic stuff done. I have found other useful thing here such as the XML tutorials and will get to that when I need to.

Thanks again

GIMP is pretty cheap, you can get it for 0 dollars.

http://www.gimp.org

Then read my GIMP tutorials, starting here: viewtopic.php?f=466&t=140723