SHOOBINATOR'S PROFILE

author=Solitayre
For the record, I denied this game, not Deckiller.

I did so largely on the basis of this screenshot:

Very jumbled, lots of misused tiles. I am glad to see this is the exact issue that's been worked on in this thread! Thank you to everyone who stepped up to help.

I do think Carlsev Saga is an example of a game that uses these tiles well, so I still suggest checking it out if you haven't. Also check out Ara Fell if you want to make things REALLY pretty, just be careful that it doesn't also become hard to navigate!

Yes, I really appreciate all the feedback! And the waterfall definitely looks silly with no other knowledge of the game. Redoing it also helped my goal with this map of making it feel very open (i.e. less black ceiling tile in places).

Although, would doing something like in this screenshot (but to a less blocky degree) be alright if this location were deep underground and there was water falling from the ceiling?

author=bulmabriefs144
I dunno what the big fuss is about. My mapping is loads more horrible.

Well, I guess the difference is that some points in my game are for quality (mainly the coding), and some are for parody.

With a game, you need to either go completely serious and organized, or go even more crazy in your mapping (here's my worldmap, see if you can tell me what's weird about it) and have a devil-may-care attitude about it, but be serious about the plot and the bug checking issues.

I'm guessing this is still a WIP, but I would suggest either making your islands/continents simpler/smaller or add more detail to the larger continents. I would decide ahead of time what I want my world map to be. Some world maps are very condensed, and are just meant to give the player a quick transition to the next location, or you could do something more explorative (I'm guessing that's what you wanted). Will you have battles on your world map? Choose the purpose of your world map. Also, think about if you will ever give the player some mode of transportation to travel faster when spacing things out.

And is that Giant Octopus Island?! :)

Also, I want to focus more on behind-the-scenes quality as well with code/scripting, etc. but that's not something you can see when deciding whether to accept a game submission. Looks are always the first impression (and that goes for just about anything really).

@Lucidstilness, Alright, I'll see what I can do.

Yeah, I was looking very carefully at heights when reconstructing the middle floor thing in the upper right above the river. However, finding the right balance between matching the ceiling tiles with the walls to some extent while doing a sort of "cutaway" view can be a bit difficult sometimes.

author=Liberty
Some of your heights are quite off. Here's a picture to show you. There may be more I missed. It's getting better, though. Don't give up hope!

All agreeable fixes. I never even noticed the minus 1 on the left side, and that's been there the longest!

author=Lucidstillness
I actually think the temple layout with the water looks pretty creative and interesting, but I think you should do as LockeZ has suggested and use tiles that fit the square edge of the water (perhaps have a perimeter of stone tiles surrounding the water's edge?).

I don't quite follow. Do you mean basically line the river with stone on the floor level? Or use different walls for the little walls above the river?

This is a much older pic, but I have a newer/better one uploaded here as well.

Oh yeah, I noticed that. Thanks!