UNITY'S PROFILE

Go for it! You have a great style!

I couldn't get a consensus on how close to Craze's style we wanted the maps, so I'm going to say to make the dungeon in your own style. Differing dungeon designs will actually, in my opinion, make the game more interesting as they'll spice things up.

Really love the colors in that one, Milennin! :D

author=LockeZ
We're gonna have more towns than dungeons unless this gets expanded a little!

I don't know if having more towns than dungeons is bad. If several of the towns have some battles and stuff in them, then it'll end up fine.

Hmm, good point. Maybe expand the number of diamond dungeons to six or eight, and make some required dungeons that aren't strictly ones with the diamonds in them.

author=LockeZ
Sub-boss: Maricela. A witch, wanted for dozens of murders and human sacrifice. She has joined the Gavetti League. Uses magical hexes to weaken and paralyze the player, and summons demons to attack for her.

I'm guessing she joins after the battle? She doesn't have demon-summoning capabilities on her own, so having her say something about using an item or talisman to summon them before the battle would work.

I really like this idea of the Gavetti League getting there first and this being the second dungeon for the Diamond of Freedom. Let's do that!

Uploaded a new version that fixes some small errors that I failed to catch at first:

-I had turned followers off in the prologue and forgot to turn them back on. As a result, Chisa doesn't appear to be following you when she joins. Fixed.

-An NPC in the prologue had their self-switch working improperly. Fixed.

-Fixed a couple of typos.

author=Rave
World maps in old RPGs (chrono trigger first few Final Fantasies, etc.) was made because of size constraints (cartridges were often smaller than floppies). Now there is no excuse for making those other than "I failed to make interesting world player want to go through".

thatbennyguy already made a great point about abstraction. If a game's not about showing every step of your journey through detailed environments, then it doesn't need to do so. It also causes realism problems, like LockeZ said, with the desert being minutes from the iceland, etc.

I'm working on a game right now where everything is connected and there is no world map. But the game takes place on a series of small islands, so its feasible. Size constraints aren't the issue: If you're making a globe-spanning game, you can't literally make an entire world interconnected like that without it feeling very small. Traveling in the real world on foot takes forever. You can't exactly replicate that in a game across an entire world without it getting boring or the world being tiny.

author=Rave
As for fast travel, it is sick concept. It's like watching a movie, but skipping like 15 minutes every so often. It just doesn't work and lessens game's immersion.

I don't find that analogy convincing. Movies and books skip to the interesting parts of stories all of the time. They don't spend tedious time showing the characters walking from one location to another with nothing interesting. They skip time to the parts that propel the plot. In a sense, fast travel is doing the same thing.