[E18] Spoilerville ahoy (Patreon)

okay, so like i said before: there's a certain point of the episode's story that i'm just not going to talk about beyond at all. setting that aside, i'll go ahead and share some things from the first part.  this is the start of that, so if you don't want some light spoilers (mostly for exploration i guess) then heed the [E18] tags and back the heccka outta here

so i said before i was doing just enough mapping to get the other mappers rolling. we're done with that now. i took some screenshots along the way, so i'll post the first few here-- though for now i won't post everything i have since it might be a little bit too telling. it will tell you where we're starting from at least.

this is Square City. each Square is lovingly hand crafted and raised from just a pixel. one day they may even become full maps,,, but for now they are just Squares.

a white fungus is drawn throughout Square City. legends say it's a marker to show where the maps will be divided. other legends say that's fucking stupid.

the white fungus erupts into big cracks. these cracks continue to divide it up into smaller maps for me, and also shows me the barrier of how much from the movable edge of each map I need to make around it so that the player can't just stare off into the abyss. smaller lines between it serve as a guidelines from my paper sketch as to how they will connect.

and there it is, that part in the bottom left might look somewhat familiar. i copy it in so i can match up the cliffs perfectly and start pulling everything together with the thread of 1,000 cliff tiles. some of it is just outlines and sillhouettes-- enough to let the mappers fill it in later.

i've continued working my way across from left to right like this and the whole thing is done now buuuuuuut like i said i don't want to post it yet

not like you wouldn't see it when i do a mapping stream, but zzzzzz

so anyway i'm shelving this and passing it to the mappers and then i'll get started on the  USUM sprites! don't you love making sprites for new pokemon forms ame!! don't you love making backsprites!!!