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Of course, I made Dungeon maker because I found being a player on Roll20 was a pretty lackluster experience (and not entirely free, my DM friend spent a lot of money on it). I can't speak to how exactly it compares to other alternatives as I haven't used many, so I can just talk about what it does do and let you decide if it sounds good.
Dungeon Maker comes with an intuitive tile based map editor for making encounters, including random map generators that can give you a starting point for your maps. It automatically creates barriers to movement and vision with placed objects and walls so you don't have to worry about that. It supports multi-story maps, allowing you to go vertical with your design, whether that be ,multiple stories to buildings, or perhaps cliff faces. There's also built in note tools you can use to place notes anywhere on your maps, teleporters that will instantly move players and NPCs that step on them, hidden doors, toggleable lights, and more.
The built in asset editor lets you add custom art to the map, so you can change up the art style of the game, or just add custom objects.
The campaign map mode allows you to easily tie together your campaign maps into one place between encounters that your players can move freely around.
The lighting system lets you change the time of day on your maps during play, and the in game lighting will reflect that. You can toggle any light source on and off, allowing you to make fun and interesting scenarios for your players, such as stealth missions. The DM has the standard abilities to control enemies and NPCs, move players around, toggle door locks and open and close doors. They can also add enemies and NPCs to maps on the fly, so you can change up your encounters quickly and easily. There's also a built in battle tracker to handle turn order and initiative automatically.
There is an action and spell editor in the game that lets you create most damage and healing based spells in DnD. Spells are animated in the game, which adds some flair to your encounters, and lets everyone see exactly where they went off. There's also support for duration spells, and moving them around.
There is Steam Workshop support, so you can share your characters, NPCs, Enemies, Campaigns, Map Blueprints, and Custom Assets with other players.
Overall I've found it makes being a DM easy and fun, and my players have enjoyed using it. Hopefully it sounds good to you.
The map making and map exporting might be worth it for me, I'll defo wishlist it! One of the things I am noticing is that a lot of the features you got overlap with the software I already use (FoundryVTT) and between already having DungeonDraft and Dungeon Alchemist. It's a hard space to break in to and I do honestly wish you the best.
The Workshop support is interesting, though I am guessing from your description that so far, it won't come even close to rival the module support that something like Foundry has.
You price point is very good though. Could be a solid entry point for a lot of GMs that want to get off Roll20. Oh yeah one thing that is not super clear from the Steam page as well is, does only the GM need to purchase the software or do players need their own copy too?
It's definitely a crowded space, I'm hoping the combination of features lets me carve out a niche.
And everyone does need to purchase it, that's why I've kept the price point low.