Opinion On My First Instanced Boss Map

[JohnPony]

Im not a mapper, and am very bad at it, but i thought maybe i could get some feedback on this map


Older Version:

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What should i change? What should i leave? What am i doing good? What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[Sickey]

Could use some more details. Like bottles, crates etc.

[Joost]

You should probably keep it as empty as possible because of the poor target finding of NPC's. Ranged chars may camp on the other side of the lava shooting down the boss w/o taking any damage, or, judging from the looks of it, 2 melee chars can trap the boss inbetween the pillar/statue while an rdps does all the damage.

[shwamshwam1]

Very linear, even though it is inside, try to make it seem a bit more random.
Example belows shows how linear it is:

[cheatking]

Bones, in lava?

[JohnPony]

@Mr.Sean:

> Bones, in lava?

Lol i thought that looked bad too xD

[Yuko]

The stuff in the right hand corner is kind of cluttered together. It makes it look unorganized

[JohnPony]


Updated new map, how does it look now?

[Yuko]

@John:

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> Updated new map, how does it look now?

Much better, I like the squished/un-assembled  statue.

[The New World]

Cici, please quite quoting the first post.

[JohnPony]

^ LOL

[Yuko]

@[rose:

> link=topic=80353.msg860322#msg860322 date=1337902815]
> Cici, please quite quoting the first post.

Well how would they know which message I was talking about, there's a bunch of posts that I could have been talking about.

Also quit* not quite..

[The New World]

Grammar nazi.

And if you're commenting, and you DO NOT quote ANY post, 99% of the people on these forums know, especially by your context that you're talking about the op. Your posts have been very small compared to the op you're quoting which makes it hard to read.

[Yuko]

I'm just not going to bother.

You want to be a picky prick, go ahead, no body's stopping you.

[SawQuart]

@ςเςเ:

> I'm just not going to bother.
>
> You want to be a picky prick, go ahead, no body's stopping you.

*nobody

[JohnPony]

@Jungle:

> *nobody

Got em haha

[shwamshwam1]

Still very linear, looks better though =D
Put it in a spolier so it doesn't invade the whole page

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[dxxknight]

Yeah like everyone else has already suggested randomly placing things and giving maps a more random feel always seems to come out much better so advice for mapping is don't think about it too much just do it but try to keep it realistic in away at the sametime.

[Yxxe]

It's quite difficult to remove the linearity from fully tile-based maps. Implement offsets to tiles so you can fully break away from it looking square.

[SkyStudios]

what kinf of program do you people use to make that kind of maps?
btw its awesome john pony.
( i didnt know that candy corn is poop) :o

[Vus]

@§:

> what kinf of program do you people use to make that kind of maps?

What do you mean? Its made in CS:DE or you can make maps in EO as well

[Jeff]

Why would the person who designed  that room make random parts of the room jutting out onto lava? Also, add more random shit.

[shwamshwam1]

@Niall:

> It's quite difficult to remove the linearity from fully tile-based maps. Implement offsets to tiles so you can fully break away from it looking square.

I completely agree, it can be hard to get random/natural looking maps.
This would be a good idea.

[JohnPony]

@Eckhart:

> Why would the person who designed  that room make random parts of the room jutting out onto lava? Also, add more random shit.

The room used be a full on throne room, when the king and queen switched sides (fire & water) the throne rooms were thrown into chaos. This is the result of the kings throne room.

I have not really had enough time to update it for 3 days because i have been on a trip, but ill try that out now :)

[Juke]

Give me your smexy tilesets xD