Spring RTS Engine

Hi Guys,

I've created my first map - and it took me so long it may be my only map :)

It's a fairly straight forward map, meant to be played top vs bottom.

I created the height map using The GIMP and the texture using Povray.

It has a "ribbon" of metal that goes across the middle of the map and hopefully the "MaxMetal" is set so that the ribbon does give toooo much metal.

Cheers.

Looks like Settlers 1

Not bad, not bad.

looks very nice, gameplay might be a little on the porcy side though...

I dont see why, the sandy bit is a valid path for attack as well by the looks of it.

Your heightmap could use a bit of blurring.

I dunno, I really like the deliberately pointy mountains, they look a bit cartoony and work really well with the color scheme used.

I recommend a few more expansion areas for players on the sides, and reducing the metal content of the ribbon. It's a little too "all or nothing" for my taste. What I mean is that there is nowhere else to which players on the sides can expand - you have to get the ribbon or you're dead. The mountains near the ribbon are shaped in such a way that shared control isn't likely, meaning one team or the other gets the whole thing.

Some players may enjoy that kind of all-or-nothing game. Personally, though, I like maps which offer a glimmer of hope to those who fail in the first skirmish of the game.

Thanks for your feedback guys.

rattle wrote:Looks like Settlers 1

I'd not seen Settlers 1 before so I googled it after seeing your response and you do have a point It gave me a chuckle. See: this image

Goolash_ wrote:gameplay might be a little on the porcy side though..

Maelstrom wrote:I dont see why, the sandy bit is a valid path for attack as well by the looks of it.

I was worried that teams could end up porcing in each basin, but I haven't had enough chance to play test it yet to be sure. I was hoping that the fact that if you tried to porc inside the basin then the other team could just shoot down on you from the sides...

ralphie wrote:Your heightmap could use a bit of blurring.

Were you refering to the mountains raphie, the map as a whole, or some other parts? I've got the height map saved as a multi-layered GIMP image still with the different parts of the map saved as different layers so I could blur just one layer.

RogerN wrote:I recommend a few more expansion areas for players on the sides, and reducing the metal content of the ribbon. It's a little too "all or nothing" for my taste. What I mean is that there is nowhere else to which players on the sides can expand - you have to get the ribbon or you're dead. The mountains near the ribbon are shaped in such a way that shared control isn't likely, meaning one team or the other gets the whole thing.

Do you think I should break up the ribbon and spread it around the basins?