Maps and screenshots thread

[KasperKalamity]

i'll make the bikes more noticable. i think the whole game is going to have to be played in full screen. there are a lot of details being lost between drawing them in illustrator, and compiling the tilesets in photoshop....

and oh hey, i forgot to answer JayRay:

Nice little interaction there... I'm guessing Kepties are humans?

Lore. Lore has been both the most satisfying, and time demanding part of this project by far o_0". I can't go forward in the game without the world first making sense. I do a lot of Iceberging to make the world seem alive.

Kepties are the remnants of sickly children that were left to die in the western swamp, like in Sparta. some lived, and now they're little yellow trolls who adapted to the swamp they were left in after the Chinpontong accidentally drained the eastern half of it, ceasing their need to be solely swamp dwellers.

the dwarves and Chinpontong (Creole word for "up shit creek" ) are normal, healthy people, who were separated after some fell into a big crevasse caused by the Chinpontong.

the dwarves and Kepties are a spin-off of the Chinpontong, who were originally a cargo cult who worship the great clam spirit (who is also a key that unlocks something or other. i haven't decided yet), said to have washed ashore a (Keptie brand) shipping container full of illegal immigrants bound for the big city that fell off a barge. the Chinpontong remained virtually unchanged, and live like injuns in the great plain, that was once the greater eastern swamp. After falling down the crevasse, the dwarves adapted to smaller spaces, and eventually were able to find other containers washed ashore in the past, through the "miracle" of mesoscale eddies , and brought them underground via a deep sea river.


The screwing-with of the island's geography has made having the three cultures simultaneous existence unsustainable. one of them must perish so the other two can live. Only then will the great clam spirit agree to give its body to unlock the thing.


edit: i changed the bikes. how does this look? i also gave the top tiles priority of 2, but the fence still intersects it with a priority of 1...




edit x2: made some junk tiles for the dwarf cult. nobody but two of the main characters know electricity and appliances are even a thing.



edit le 3rd: wa-lah