[E19] leg day at the gym (part 1) (Patreon)

you know why it's leg day?

because we're going step by step.

step 1-- mark out the playable area and map boundaries. sketch some lines for the paths the player can take, and other shapes like mountains

normally on an indoor map we don't have to worry about the boundaries, but i was careful with it here because i thought i might use a panorama. i ended up not deciding to, but better safe than sorry.
the light area at the top marked where i would have had the panorama be. all of the purple was just a very rough pencil idea for maybe how the map will be, drawn in a random tile. unlike most maps i didn't sketch this out, because whatever is going to work. the yellow screen marks the central point.

step 2-- outline mountains, define paths, clean up the easy bottom and begin marking lava pools

switched the light tiles at the top to blank since that's what they would be with panorama. switched playable area blank tiles to some other random thing to work around, but i kinda liked the colors incidentally.
pay no attention to the floating pillars; i'm sure they're not from anything.

step 3-- finish the lava pools and begin structuring the cliff layers to make sure everything fits together.

spoilers: it doesn't and never will because cliffs are suffering and gen 3 mapping is suffering and who the fuck decided to make a game in this style in the first place, let alone base a fangame off that?
but i guess it ended up fine. the golden stairs above the lowest level are placeholders. 

step 4: finish the cliff structure and walkable paths. make way more lava pools than you intended because that's the only way dragon gyms can exist i guess?

"but it's fine i guess"

...so, as of tonight, this gym is finished. a lot more finished than it looks above, in fact, but i've spontaneously decided to post the rest of the step-by-step takes in a post that is not this one because i've decided this one is inferior and is unworthy of steps 5-9.

instead, we'll switch gears and go step by step on this treasure chest graphic that i made three hours ago in the fifteen minutes it takes to cook a frozen 2am depression pizza with regretti and cheese.

first, draw a box

then add some colors to the box. and a keyhole i guess.

also make it open. all we need to do is move the lid up color some black space and make it half dark

it's a start. go more. also put something in it.

what could be in it? don't worry, it's probably nothing.

game resolution:

all right i'll post more leg day later but i'm going to go start eventing this gym now and inevitably pass out in twenty eight minutes and thirteen seconds because i'm allergic to people that exist and shouldn't, people that should exist but don't, and the very passage of time itself