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[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

This thread is pinned. That indicates a level of importance above most other topics.

 

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- Cornelius

Edited by Robin, 10 October 2015 - 01:54 PM.

[SpacemanDan]

Dang, this was really informative. Excellent for newer users who need a hand, and good for oldbies who want some extra tips and what not.

Excellent work, both Migokalle and Sheik.

Perhaps some parts on dungeon screen design, since designing dungeons screens (at least, for me) is different than designing overworlds? I dunno, I'm just shooting ideas.

[Sheik]

Dang, this was really informative. Excellent for newer users who need a hand, and good for oldbies who want some extra tips and what not.

Excellent work, both Migokalle and Sheik.

Perhaps some parts on dungeon screen design, since designing dungeons screens (at least, for me) is different than designing overworlds? I dunno, I'm just shooting ideas.

Thank you.
Well, if you want some dungeon screens than I'll make one or two and send Migo some notes so he can convert those into text for the ... guide?

[nicklegends]

Great job, you guys. This is informative, accurate, useful, and well-written. Hopefully people will learn from this and create more appealing quests in the future.

[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

@Blaman, all of this applies to dungeon design too, so there's no need for that

Thanks everyone

[ZebraStallion]

This is an excellent tutorial with a lot of excellent points. Even though it's very basic and I probably won't need to use it, I can see many others finding this very helpful. Great job on this Migo and Shiek. =)

Edited by ZebraStallion, 11 December 2009 - 04:01 PM.

[Moo2wo]

This should be pinned.

Really excellent job, Migokalle and Sheik.

[SpacemanDan]

Ah, I see what you mean, Migo. Fair enough.

[Zenith]

Nice. Good stuff for the new guys to know. Your first "fixed" shot does feel a little too open, though...

And you wouldn't mind showing us where you got those forest overhang tiles, would ya?

Edited by Zenith, 11 December 2009 - 05:56 PM.

[Sheik]

Great job, you guys. This is informative, accurate, useful, and well-written. Hopefully people will learn from this and create more appealing quests in the future.

Yes. Hopefully.

Ah, I see what you mean, Migo. Fair enough.

Well, I think you have a point there actually. I was asked numerous times how to actually build dungeons. I,myself think it's basically the same as building overworlds, but this does not seems to be consens.
However, I build two screens and wrote some notes, PM'd it to Migo. We'll see if he thinks it's needed or not. If the paragraph isn't making it into the guide, I can PM it to you, though.

And again, thanks for the feedback.

[Evile]

Excellent tutorial guys, hopefully this will help people design their quests better and make sotw a little more interesting. I certainly hope you guys work on a dungeon version as well as dungeon screens are really difficult to design well, for me at least.

[DarkFlameWolf]

Another tip I always use that is prevalent in almost every single quest I've ever made is this:
Always fill in the corners! Have some solid object, be it a house, rock, tree line, wall, etc. fill in the four corners of each screen. It provides a sense of closure to a screen and rounds it out a bit more. This also applies to free form dungeons.

[Nathaniel]

Hey, if we can have a pinned topic on subscreens, why can't we have one on the broader topic of screen design? Pinned for justice!

I think this is really good advice, and can clearly be expanded on, since you have a plethora of great screen designers here to contribute their angle to it, as fantastic as it is already.

[Eddard McHorn Van-Schnuder]

Another tip I always use that is prevalent in almost every single quest I've ever made is this:
Always fill in the corners! Have some solid object, be it a house, rock, tree line, wall, etc. fill in the four corners of each screen. It provides a sense of closure to a screen and rounds it out a bit more. This also applies to free form dungeons.

Did you read the topic? It's in there...


Thanks everyone. Glad to hear you all like it

[DarkFlameWolf]

Probably added in quickly after my post!