Common Sense Corner

[DerVVulfman]

YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF MAPS? OH, NOOO!!!!!

Oh, boo hoo. Your game editor allows you to make a lot of maps. Heck, it lets you make NINE HUNDRED AND NINETY-NINE MAPS (or 999 for those who don't wanna read). Still, I've heard some people say that they're limited and are running out.

Limited? Are you kidding me?

Your typical Enterbrain editor lets you make maps of a fairly large size. RPGMaker XP allows one to create a 500x500 tile map. And that's not exactly tiny. I've seen plenty of maps that are a mere 20 tiles by 15 tiles, these being individual home/house maps. And there are those who make a ton of these small maps to fill a town or village.

Really? That's a real waste!

Instead of making a lot of maps of small houses or huts, why not make ONE of those 500x500 maps and put a good number of your houses in that? You could make a map called 'VillageVille Houses' and have a good time, assuming your houses use the same basic tileset. Well, a good tileset changer can fix that. Still, you'll want to put some spacing around each house map, like around 10 tiles on all four sides each. That way you can't see one map from the other.

Yeah, this would mess up the use of a 'Map Name' script (displays the Editor's name of a map in the actual game screen). But the benefit is clear; that your chance of running out of maps in the editor is decreased.