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World maps, story outlines, and randomness, oh my!

  • trance2
  • 08/02/2012 04:55 AM
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*takes some time from playing Project Diva*

I always seem to be working in spurts, don't I? Albeit really sparsely placed spurts, but spurts nonetheless. Regardless of how often (which isn't often enough), I'm not dead yet. Even if trying to finish up this last semester makes me wish I was. Either way, progress!

I'm actually sitting down for once and writing out an even more specific timeline of events for the game, going from Chapter One all the way through. Not only will this help set a timeline of stuff I need to finish, but it'll also help figure out where things go, exactly where in the story certain things are, and... finish off the item database I guess? Key items might have something to do with it, but I'm sure puzzles help with that as well. So far, I've had little bits of pieces of just about everything written down and/or floating around in my head. With this, I'm consolidating everything together into one document. So it's not just "oh, random story spoiler happens." It's "this is what leads up to random story spoiler."

In that vein, I've been actually working on the biggest map - that being the world map. Though, after playing a couple of times with what parts have been filled in by flying over in the airship, it's not as big as it looks in the map editor... Either way, pretty much the entire landmass for Chapter One is finished. I've just got to make some parts a little less open and also fill in a couple of blank bits. After that I might actually *gasp* work on location maps, then start filling in the dialogue and scenes to go with it. By my estimate, Chapter One should probably be about 6-7 hours? There's six or seven "dungeon" areas to be had, so that makes for some decent content, I suppose.

Otherwise just plotting stuff out like I should've done years ago, as well as STILL not being done the stat curves... I've got everyone's AP done and I think most everyone's HP. ATK/STA/MYS/RFX stats are still in the works for about... three characters, though. And finishing Lucien's HP. Very confused why he only goes up to L23 with that...

Anyways, have a picture of a late-chapter town on the world map. Still thinking of adding a time-of-day indicator of some sort to the upper-left and the world map on the bottom-right is still a little WIP since as I fill in stuff, I'm also trimming and adding. As well as adding major rivers which may or may not show up on there.