Venice/Amsterdam inspired city

[noamik]

Hi everybody,

I wanted to hear your opinion on a map I've started working on. When it's final I want to provide an entire city on water, a mix of Venice and Amsterdam. However doing an entire city with quests and everything is a lot of work that I don't want to invest into the blue. So I started with a 30x30 and created a first house, the inn of the city, and it's surroundings:

test-city.png

Please tell me what you think of what you see there.

- Does this fit into the world planned?
- Did I miss any important guide lines when mapping for andor's trail?
- Where in the world of andor's trail would you see such a city? Would it fit as a setting for any of the cities already planned?

About me:
I'm pretty new to Andor's trail, have been playing for some months now. My first character is a level 50, so I've seen lots of the content already and I liked it. Now I wanted to start contributing, so I set up the repository and an eclipse as described in the tutorial and started with mapping. I plan on doing some coding if there is things I need to allow cool content that can't be done in the current code base though. I also have a VM up and running (almost native speed, since I chose to emulate an x86 atom).

[Duke]

I don't have the authority to give you the go ahead, but I do like what you did here and am grateful to have someone willing to add content. I wonder if this could extend someone near Remgard? Good work Noamik, and welcome to the forum!

[noamik]

I thought about the Remgard area as well, but then there is already lots of place taken on the reserved map. Its placement is pretty flexible though, since I want the city to be reachable only by taking a boat/float.

[rijackson741]

I like it. The general theme of the AT world is that it's kind of dark, but I don't see why there couldn't be a city with at least some areas that are not. It would add variety, and the contrast would maybe make the other areas appear darker.

[noamik]

Thanks for your heads up. My concept is a city that has suffered less than the other areas due to it being located on artificial isles. I want it to be accessible early in the game, but the player should want to revisit till the very late game. It shall serve as a hub for quest lines. Accessing the city will force advanced players to pay a small amount of money to the captain, while the lower levels will be transported for free: "Hey kid, hop on board"-style.

Btw.: did I miss the part in the tutorials where it says: add your map to

Code: Select all

/res/values/loadresources.xml

? When trying to test my map I was wondering for quite some time why my teleport from crossglen into the city didn't work until I saw in logcat that the resource of the map wasn't found.

inn.png

[Piggy the Slayer]

Welcome. Good ideas. Could Feygard be a city on a lake?

[hailstone]

I like the idea of a city on water. I made a map myself to get more experience with Tiled. Maybe it has something you could use.

[noamik]

Sure, feel free to provide the tmx and resources you used ...