First time GM, please rate my maps

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My first impression is that a murder took place here.

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The setting is for Rotworld, a zombie apocalypse roleplaying setting haha so maybe some murder took place

They look fine. What did you use to make them?

I used dungeonographer, and I use hexographer for world maps

i like them but they look ovewrwhelmingly blueprint-y due to color, maybe add a bit of variety, I suggest.

Hope your players will help each other.

one bathroom lacks a door
and those two are very dinky for a house that has a designated library

dislike the diagonal corridor

Thank you for noticing the bathroom door!
The diagonal bit is a walkway to the shed, but without context you wouldnt have noticed that. Which is a common theme ive found with the map haha

i think the issue there is that you're using both blue and white for 'walkable' spaces, so at first it looks like an underground room with some severely fucked up corridors
if you're sticking to two-colour, you should probably keep it abstract and set some rules for yourself, like solid color being impassable

It's awful. Never DM again.

Ignore this guy.

Blue-White works like Black-White would.
I suggest using different shades though, maybe even patterns.
Like mock up a small island that is connected with a bridge to the mainland, some trees, pathways, and a small building on it - like a shit NYC apartment.

That way you have to think about how everything could look distinct or different enough.

Personally, I like minimalist designs. I don't see a reason to give the pattern to a rug, the exact debris on the ground, or every piece of the bedspread.

Yeah, don't do diagonal. If characters could move in a NE/SE/SW/NW motion, it would make sense that they could slip through that gap.

I'm not a brand new GM, but I'm brand new to making tiled maps and dungeons and stuff.

These are two of my 'starter' dungeons, a temple (filled with kobolds and a draconian 'boss') and then a crypt respectively.

and then here's the crypt, where the necromancer character in my solo campaign started out being attacked by a mob of villagers, upset about the whole necromancy thing.

Related question, does anyone use programs for their map making? Photoshop? Anything with preset resources? Heck, I've heard some people use the game Door Kicker's level creator for making maps

I use Tiled, alongside a custom-made tileset for it.

And then when it comes to making world maps, I usually just generate a world in Dwarf Fortress

your dimensions are too large for my tastes. Halving those entry halls for instance would do a lot of good. I assume you're adding tokens for items and whatnot, but that looks like a pain of sorts

6.5/10 Not enough challenging and novel situations for my taste. I doubt players will have to use any noncombat skills ever

Been making maps a for a bit now and it is generally pretty fun.