My town is sooo boring.
#1
Posted 01 December 2004 - 06:19 PM
#2
Posted 01 December 2004 - 06:26 PM
#4
Posted 01 December 2004 - 06:56 PM
#5
Posted 03 December 2004 - 02:36 PM
#6
Posted 03 December 2004 - 02:49 PM
2) Rivers - People like to live near streams. Perhaps add a few around some houses, put in a lot of bridges, (The more bridges there are, the more 'homely' it feels.)
3) Clumps of Trees are always nice. Place them where the player will more than likely never walk.
4) Then put flowers and slashables around those trees.
5) Avoid having large, open spaces like that. I know that this tip is about as general as you can get, but having large open spaces is the prime bane of any city. If you must do something with those empty spaces, and can't fill them, then perhaps you could place building foundations in the form of roads or weeds there, if you don't want to do anything else.
6) While people are nice, an overabundance of them can make it seem like you just tried to slap a town down. I think that the strategy with people, is to place them where they'll seem the most likely. Heck, if you can even get a dialogue with one or two of the NPC's out there, (Oh, .. yes, effectively turning a person sprite into an actual person.) then that would be great! Make the world seem alive.
7) Animals. Animals are always nice to have. Again, make that town of yours seem alive!
8) Add a lot of houses that are locked. You don't have to be able to go into EACH AND EVERY SINGLE HOUSE, but as long as the player knows that it's a real town, with a striving population, that'll make it feel much more lively.
#7
Posted 03 December 2004 - 07:49 PM
Try to add more... stuff.
Just anything that you might expect to see in a town. A wagon with a few crates around it, a tree with a tire-swing, a couple more houses, a mansion that's always locked...
Just go crazy. Fill it all in.
And, I see the snow, so add a couple snowmen or a snow fort or something...
#8
Posted 03 December 2004 - 08:16 PM
Thanks everyone.
#9
Posted 03 December 2004 - 08:35 PM
#10
Posted 03 December 2004 - 08:37 PM
Yeah, that's sort of bugging me too, but I'm trying to keep the GB feel of it in most ways.
#11
Posted 05 December 2004 - 11:07 AM
#12
Posted 05 December 2004 - 10:27 PM
The fear of blank screens. I have it. Ahh!
Edited by FireStorm, 05 December 2004 - 10:28 PM.
#13
Posted 14 December 2004 - 10:06 PM
#14
Posted 16 December 2004 - 02:44 AM
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