why?lord_day wrote:I really dislike the idea of making maps from random E-tile shapes. It gives your maps no purpose.
This one.Pheidippides wrote:One of two ways.
1: Translate an idea into Ned, tweak when necessary.
2: Doodle in Ned, see if anything cool happens. If yes, proceed to map.
This is actually a wider spectrum than you might think, depending on how clear an idea I have going into mapping. Sometimes I just think of a title and make a map loosely based on that idea, and other times I've got mechanics thought out and just need to make them work. Doodling is never just E-tiles. I doodle pretty intricately.
Tiles always come first, but I usually build a map in several sessions of adding tiles and then objects, playtesting along the way. This is why mapping is often a painfully slow process for me.
I made one or two badass tilesets in Python.Pheidippides wrote:unless you learn Python, but this is deep magic.
Same.Pheidippides wrote:One of two ways.
1: Translate an idea into Ned, tweak when necessary.
2: Doodle in Ned, see if anything cool happens. If yes, proceed to map.
This is actually a wider spectrum than you might think, depending on how clear an idea I have going into mapping. Sometimes I just think of a title and make a map loosely based on that idea, and other times I've got mechanics thought out and just need to make them work. Doodling is never just E-tiles. I doodle pretty intricately.
Tiles always come first, but I usually build a map in several sessions of adding tiles and then objects, playtesting along the way. This is why mapping is often a painfully slow process for me.
To give the obligatory smart-ass answer, I make maps with Ned. I think it would be a bit hard to do it any other way, unless you learn Python, but this is deep magic.
Same for me, but emphasis on the bolded text.Pheidippides wrote:One of two ways.
1: Translate an idea into Ned, tweak when necessary.
2: Doodle in Ned, see if anything cool happens. If yes, proceed to map.
This is actually a wider spectrum than you might think, depending on how clear an idea I have going into mapping. Sometimes I just think of a title and make a map loosely based on that idea, and other times I've got mechanics thought out and just need to make them work. Doodling is never just E-tiles. I doodle pretty intricately.
Tiles always come first, but I usually build a map in several sessions of adding tiles and then objects, playtesting along the way. This is why mapping is often a painfully slow process for me.
HMM. I basically never do that. I do all my tiles. Add objects. Playtest. Drastically change tiles. Tweak objects. Playtest. Done.Avarin wrote:Same for me, but emphasis on the bolded text.Pheidippides wrote:One of two ways.
Tiles always come first, but I usually build a map in several sessions of adding tiles and then objects, playtesting along the way. This is why mapping is often a painfully slow process for me.