Andor's Trail

Hi everyone!

I'm a bit of a veteran when it comes to this sort of thing. I've messed around with making my own RPG, but really I just want to make maps, and quests.

I've attached a photo of something I whipped together as evidence of mapping ability.

I couldn't spot cliff toppers in the palette for the grass, hence why some trees are floating in space.
Are there angular wall bottoms?

How do I test a map 'ingame'? Do I have to compile an APK?

I've got some old RPGMaker pieces kicking around. One is a story driven piece with three to four hours of gameplay, while another is an open ended world where I built a choose your own character, class, spells system all done through the events nodes of the original RPGMaker. I built it back around the time Morrowind had just released.

Anyhow, blah blah blah, what can I do to contribute maps?

I'm not interested in affecting the design of the game, I'm not interested in steering the direction, or making suggestions, etc.
I don't care about that stuff and it would require more interaction than I'm looking for.

I'm not going to list some crazy resume of game modding strewn around the internet.
In short I'm a jack of all trades and I find laying tile fun, easy and I'm good at it.

I can make tile sets and did so when I toyed with generating my own Android games.

I could wax for days about 'ideas' or 'you should', but that's not why I'm here. Some people want to be the chef, and some people just want to do the prep, the garnish or the soups

I've attached the previously mentioned RPG Maker titles. Enjoy!
Edge (of Shadow) was my first foray into (the first) RPG Maker, with tilesets scrounged from around the internets.
Blind came after Morrowind was released. I had an XBox and a crappy PC at the time. Naturally, no mod tools on XBox so my creativity was poured into Blind, which I named so because players (and the creator) went in blind. No aim or objective specifically.

The reason I have uploaded these is because they're chock full of beautiful mapping examples.
Blind specifically uses only default graphics to portray a wide variety of themes and environments.
Scale is always taken into consideration, within and without buildings. Detail is everywhere.

I stopped working on them after getting a PC capable of playing Morrowind.

So where do I find some map plans, so I can get started?

It's great to hear that you want to draw some maps!
First, about the edges:
Did you download the whole source tree? If you did that, you follow: res>drawable. Then you just add all pictures named as tiles into the window on the right in Tiled. You should find there some grass edges. To make cliffs I would suggest drawing stone or dirt cliffs with the layer Ground. On top of the cliff, you add a grass edge with Objects. At the bottom oc the cliffs, you add a shadow in Above to make it feel like a canyon.
The only way I know to test maps on PC is installing the AT emulator.
Instructions can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/andors-trail/w ... Subversion
Addingo a map is tricky because you have to heed many things. If you want to know more, please pm me.

Hey Ian, thanks for the response!

The screenshot in my original post is something I've already whipped together, so yeah, I'm well beyond the basics.

It didn't look like there was any way to round the pit out, so I suppose shadowed ground will be the best alternative.

Thanks for the subversion link, I'll get that plugged into Eclipse.

I'll email Oskar.

Ian wrote:It's great to hear that you want to draw some maps!
First, about the edges:
Did you download the whole source tree? If you did that, you follow: res>drawable. Then you just add all pictures named as tiles into the window on the right in Tiled. You should find there some grass edges. To make cliffs I would suggest drawing stone or dirt cliffs with the layer Ground. On top of the cliff, you add a grass edge with Objects. At the bottom oc the cliffs, you add a shadow in Above to make it feel like a canyon.
The only way I know to test maps on PC is installing the AT emulator.
Instructions can be found here:
http://code.google.com/p/andors-trail/w ... Subversion
Addingo a map is tricky because you have to heed many things. If you want to know more, please pm me.

Glad you seem to have things figured out. Looking forward to seeing more great maps!

I've pm'ed Oskar, but the way I'm understanding it, we have regions, and however we address that is fine so long as it fits the motif?

tantoedge great map! Can't wait to see what comes next!

Welcome to the forums!

tantoedge wrote:I've pm'ed Oskar, but the way I'm understanding it, we have regions, and however we address that is fine so long as it fits the motif?

Yeah we are pretty open as long as it fits with the general feel of the game we can make it work.

sdevaney wrote:

tantoedge wrote:I've pm'ed Oskar, but the way I'm understanding it, we have regions, and however we address that is fine so long as it fits the motif?

Yeah we are pretty open as long as it fits with the general feel of the game we can make it work.

One thing that we could use more of (in maps) are:

Underground maps, like caves, dungeons, etc.

They would be easy to fit into the game.

Happy building!

I can do that. Any religions I can work with? Particular daemonic places we need generated?

I can add fluff text on book shelves and junk, so if anybody can point me to a source for world info, that'd be a help.

Any particular locations we need?

Pyrizzle wrote:

sdevaney wrote:

tantoedge wrote:I've pm'ed Oskar, but the way I'm understanding it, we have regions, and however we address that is fine so long as it fits the motif?

Yeah we are pretty open as long as it fits with the general feel of the game we can make it work.

One thing that we could use more of (in maps) are:

Underground maps, like caves, dungeons, etc.

They would be easy to fit into the game.

Happy building!