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author=Marrend
As the person who edited the post, it, itself, was spam. It had nothing to do with your tutorial.

Thank you.
I did not notice the edit until now.
I am sorry for bothering you.

I released a "Lantern" tutorial on this website.
Feel free to check it out.

Attention! :
Fixed "Save/Load Game" glitch
of the "(Blank Data )" Data folder.

I only found this glitch when I was designing my own game.
It is only with the above mentioned folder, not anything else.

If anyone who is using the OLD Base System (before the fix), please save & export your work and then slowly load & import it into the FIXED Base System.

I am sorry for the mess, but it cannot be overlooked.
Thank you.

I'm not complaining about your choice of resolution (which is great) or your tile size (I am using 40x40 on my own game creation), I'm not even complaining about your character and environment design (which look amazing by the way), I'm just saying that your inside rooms exaggerate their size compared with the outside shape and appearance of your buildings.

You did Maco's house fine.



But your outside shape compared with your inside floor plan, it doesn't seem quite right. Your stretching the space a bit and you have to think of it as a home your designing, not merely an area for players to move around in.



I think you should go with more of a floor plan like this.



It works more with the shape of Maco's house, and you have to keep in mind that you have a "T" shaped roof that tells the player it should be a "T" shaped house. And since Maco's house has a tower in front, the rooms in that area should have rounded corners (more convincing than square rooms in a round tower).
You may be a game developer, but you have to have a home-design mind for how a house's floor plan structure should appear inside compared with its outside shape.
You just need to keep the inside shape and size proportional to the outside of the building.
I'm sorry if I sound like an instructor with a tutorial, it just tends to come out that way.

I simply inspected your first area.
You should test your Tiles as you go along, that way you can find the errors in the early stages of development.



I still think you should consider how big the inside of a house should be based on its outside appearance.
For example, here is a house you did in the first area. Looks like a small one-room house.



But yet you gave it an excessive amount of space. For a small house, I think you made a shack into a mansion.
I know it is supposed to be a house in a dying town, but the open space is too much.



Here is the same house but adjusted to be more proportional to its outside appearance and shape.
(It is a photo-edited image, I did not enter or alter any of your game files.)



I simply made your house 2x2 Tiles smaller.
And I also moved the painting down some pixels because it was touching the ceiling, which is rather high for a hanging picture.
All your furniture and decorations are still in the room, the room still keeps the general shape of the house, and you still have plenty of open space for the illusion of a "dying town" house.
You have to remember that your character uses Half-Tile movement, so the space feels bigger than it is.
I edited your room border at the bottom in the image, to give you an example of visual concept. Just look between the pictures, you will see what I mean.
And for any door hidden from view in the top-down perspective, you can do two things.
1. Use a small carpet/rug to show where a door is.
Or
2. Use a transparent arrow.
If you plan to use a transparent arrow (like in the picture) but you want to have it animated, you can take advantage of the Auto-Tiles. Why I say Auto-Tiles and NOT Character Graphics, it's because Auto-Tiles would be under the character's feet while Character Graphics would appear in front or above the character.

These are all merely suggestions, you do not need to listen to all of my advice.
Just providing constructive criticism.
Sorry if I seem to be an annoyance.