MAPS WEEKLY!

I took your advice...I hope I understood it clearly...and applied it.

nhubi, for the open gate issue I'm trying out some bars. They look okay, but I'm thinking I might try to work out something more solid. The openings over the river are barred and I love the results. For the stairs, easy fix. Just squashed them a bit and now the fit in much better. Thanks for the feedback.

Cap, I took out the unnecessary bridges and added more buildings. I agree, the flow is much better. Thanks for the feedback.

Here are the results.

The only issue I have with it is how crazy the walls are shaped. Usually walls were straight lines (I know, boring right?) because the cost of altering them was phenomenal and it gave extra room inside the walls for the city to expand outward if needed. They wouldn't have followed the lines of the town like yours does - instead leaving room to expand against the walls with a growing population that comes from safety. Once the population filled the walls, slums would be erected outside of them, where the dregs would have been sent so that proper housing could be built inside. Then after a while, if population boomed more, those slums would have been pushed out further. New walls would have been constructed forming another ring (usually lower and cheaper, built up over time as more of the city spread and the continuation of the city would keep going and going. Most cities were built on plains and flat lands for that reason).

The only time that they would have created walls so crazy is if they had to follow the natural terrain, but even then they would have either built into the cliffs or incorporated them into the design to better make their job at creation easy. If there was a bog, they would have considered that when designing the walls - a lot of time went into the design of them because they wanted both vantage points and less cost, so building on bad terrain would have been a no-go unless it enhanced the defensiveness of the walls in some way.

(For example, they wouldn't build right next to a hill that towers over the walls because it gives vantage to enemy archers. They wouldn't have built directly next to a forest because it can conceal enemies and in a fantasy world, evil fiends could lurk there. No building on beaches, bays or marshy areas because sand corrodes and moves. No building on sand - usually they dug til sandstone or hard clay instead. You get the idea.)

There's a lot of in/out-dents in your walls that make no sense - see the right wall for example: it dints in for no reason. There's no landscaping that forces it to do so and it would have been fine as a straight line. It seems you doing it just for the sake of having weirdly shaped walls.

Hoo-boy.

This is neat, I'll use this theme to practice spriting for IGMC.

It moves ripoff!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I decided to do parallax mapping(since I need a lot of exercise). I finished it. I remembered I was supposed to do a horror map. I face palmed myself. I added blood and a ghost. Here's mine:

I decided to go for the ''1900s England'' one, though it looks a bit older.

I tried to make it as crowded as possible but it still looks empty to me. What do you think?

author=El_WaKa

author=ExtremeDevelopment
I decided to do parallax mapping

The ghost looks out of place...

Oh, and I won't participate this week, making a horror map is too hard for me (and I'm too lazy to download custom graphics)

Yeah it does :\
You definetly should join in. I'd love to see your horror maps. Oh and you don't need to make it all custom. Just download blood and give it a try.
To be honest, I improved a lot. This was me just a couple of weeks ago:


And look at me now.