Current layout for the mansion. Main gimmick is A) It's a maze, like originally and B) You have to navigate it not only on ground level, but by climbing around the top of the bookcases. There's two separate tilesets for this map to swap between so that the player can't just walk across the top of bookcases to various areas and vice-versa.

Not sure if this layout is the best way to handle it, and I'm trying to not make the map too big, but be big enough for a dungeon (it's only one screen for the dungeon). Reasons being that not only do you have to go into the center (where the boss is) and then back out, you do this twice in the game (second time with stronger enemies, and the boss is again in the center of the library). Any C&C or advice would be welcomed.

Original map size was 80x80. Current map size is 65x70. Trying to avoid splitting it into separate screens.


For those curious, here is a reference image from the official fighting game. Obviously, I'm not going 100% with this design but you can get the idea for it:



Original map, for those curious as to how bad it was before: