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Fixed things:
- smoothing the bridges (created some new tiles)
- reworked the cliffs
- added more outside detail
Platyna wrote:I rather wanted to make an underground arena using the map we already have with some enhancements, why not use it?
Tat's because I like bright and friendly maps. So my arena will be bright and friendly, too. Someone else could make an arena mainly using the arena tilest.
Modanung wrote:And overall it looks too natural for an arena. It looks more like a clearing in the woods then a designated arena. I think it could use some more pieces of cliff around the sides with palisades (from this tileset) in between them. And low fences for the spectators to stand behind.
I wanted a natural look. But I didn't make any concept of a spectator area. Will the spectators be NPCs or real players? I ask, because it would be impossible for real players to have an overview of the whole arena.
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why don't you use the lower density flower tiles, too?
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Todo: Rework the both teleport tiles (they're a bit tricky to pixel, because they should look magic).
I know, the "arena" looks like pure nature.
What I forgot to say:
I didn't want it to be a real "arena". I wanted it more to be a player-vs-player area. And what would be better for a pvp area in the forest as a part of the forest itself?
Spectators have some place on the cliffs.
Now I could vary the fighting area, so it looks more like an arena (if you want that). But I like my version
version A looks in my opinion a bit TO nature. There must be a big open place where you can fight. (read no trees, just some stones, small statues and flowers as eyecandy)
version C is just the opposite. I thinks it looks a bit TO human made. maybe you can make something between version A and version C?
About version B. The fog really fits in the area although I dont know the engine support it at the moment.
maybe we should add some bones and skulls laying around or rotting corpses impaled on rusty spears...
just kidding.
to make pvp a little bit more competitious we could add a little price for it. we could place a single weak monster on the map with a respawn rate of some minutes that always drops an unique item. we could make collecting as much of these items as possible a contest. people will try to kick each other out of the pvp arena to be able to collect the most of these items.
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no, the engine does currently not support any fullscreen overlay effects. But it would maybe not be a bad idea to add this. i already experimented with some single color overlays to simulate night and it looked quite good.
edit: i sent my draft for it to the developer mailing list. when elven gives the ok and when it passes the coding style nazis internal review system without too many complains i will very likely be finished coding it before the release of 0.0.20.
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I currently have a little few spare time, because I' moving to a new, bigger apartment a few buildings away.
And in addition, I want to start my own small SoM based game (I'm currently in the conception phase, and I recently started to look for a good engine).
More information would be off-topic, so please PM me if you want to know something more
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Crush wrote:maybe we should add some bones and skulls laying around or rotting corpses impaled on rusty spears...
Actually that would fit a PVP map like a glove, an idea worth developing. War and violence are never pretty and hence any sort of a battleground should not be either.