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Game Dev 101: World Building

So, I decided to redesign my entire world map because I screwed over somewhere with my geographical placement when mapping ( it happens, you know >< ), so I spent most of yesterday and today working on a new one. The places and locations are sill the same, though. The new design also fits in better with the actual story development.


Still a WIP. Then I still have to map it out in the actual game...

The world of Elendia consists of one main landmass, where the two main countries, SangReal and Rheis, are located. There are a further two smaller islands located to the north and north-east, named Raguel and Balor respectively.

The Fomarian Sea takes up about 3/4 of the world’s landmass. Regions towards the equator are temperate, thanks to the prosperous rains that ensure greenery throughout both SangReal and Rheis. Towards the north, temperatures are cooler, but never enough to dip below freezing point. Occasionaly, a light dusting of snow will line the very highest peaks. Forests are more abundant as one moves towards the West, and it was here that the race of humans known as the Fianna flourished, but up until about two decades ago, they all but vanished. Now, a Fiannan is sighted about once every few months in any given city.

Elendia has two prominent mountain ranges, the Alborz to the south, and the Ulster chain, which runs the length of the continent from East to West. A dormant volcano, Mt. Deimor, is located towards the central plain of SangReal. It last erupted during the last known conflict of the Altan Period.

-Taken from Crimson Dusk, ERD's unofficial site.

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Ronove
More like Misao Stealing Prince
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It looks like a cool map! Loving the legend. Definitely sounds cool.

Though I have to ask: since YOU made the Crimson Dusk wordpress, why is it the unofficial site? Wouldn't it be official since you made it? O.o
Unoffical in the fact that I haven't settled on something that I like so far... it keeps changing, since I'm still experimenting with Wordpress. ^^ But once I settle on something that I LIKE, then it will be made 'official'. ^^

And the character portraits are coming along nicely as well. Laine and Pat are done and look better than ever.

As for the map design, Photoshop+Clouds Render+Posterize=Cool-looking map. ^^
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