Meet Karto.gg - A home built for beauty builds
So I've been playing Anno on and off for years, and one thing that's always bugged me is that the genuinely incredible builds people make just... disappear. Someone posts an insane screenshot here on Reddit or in Discord, gets a wave of "how did you do that," and then it's gone in a day, buried under the next hundred posts. No way to actually browse back through what people have built, see what mods they used, or just get inspired when you're staring at an empty map wondering what to do with it.
So I built Karto (www.karto.gg): a proper home for these builds instead of letting them scroll off into the void. You submit your city (screenshots, a bit about what you were going for, the mods you used if any), and it goes up in the archive where people can actually find it later, vote on it, leave comments, and enjoy.
Anno 117 is fully live on there right now. Anno 1800 is technically still marked "coming soon" on the site, but that's really just because I want it to launch with a decent number of builds already in it rather than a ghost town — so if you've got 1800 cities sitting in your screenshots folder, submit them now and they'll be ready to go the moment that section opens up.
Either way, submissions are open for both games today!
No account needed to submit — just drop in your screenshots and an email so I can tell you when it's live (you can also make an account if you want everything tied together and easier to manage, but it's optional). It's free to use, and will be forever.
Couple things on the roadmap depending on how this goes:
- Builder profiles, so your submissions live under one page instead of being scattered
- A monthly spotlight / awards thing — best build of the month, maybe by category (best industrial layout, best residential, whatever makes sense once there's enough submissions to actually judge)
- Search and filtering — by mods used, by game, that kind of thing, once there's enough builds that scrolling stops cutting it
- Save file uploads, so you can actually share the city itself, not just screenshots of it.
This is week one, so I'm looking forward to see what you have built, so we can share with the community.
Go check it out, throw a build in, and tell me what you think — what's missing, what's confusing, what you want to see next. I've got a real backlog planned and I'm building this out actively, so feedback now actually shapes where it goes.
PS. Big thanks to Anno builders who reached out to me and sent out their builds to support the project
Godspeed!