City Mapping Contest

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

Welcome to Emily-Ann's City Mapping Contest! The point of this contest is for you, the mapper, to design one small town/city using the "Post Town In" and "Post Town Out" tilesets (or whatever they are in the official English version.) The town has to be fantasy style and has to include a few NPCs. As well, there must be at least an inn in the town. Also, you cannot use a town map you have created before. So, as a recap:

 

- Must use the listed tileset for the outside and must use "Post Town In" for the insides of all regular buildings (inns, homes, etc)

- You may use RTP only tilesets for the insides of special buildings (shops, temples, arenas, etc)

- Must include NPCs

- Must include at least an inn (must be made using the Post Town Interior tileset)

- Must be fantasy styled

- Must have the entrance at the bottom of the map.

- Must be original to this contest (you can't use a map you've previously made)

- The finished project must be an unencrypted project

 

The winner of the contest will get their map in my game ^^ I hope that's a good prize...I'm not sure what else to offer lol The deadline for putting in your "application to join" this contest is March 5, 2010 with your map due April 1, 2010.

 

Current Competetors

Kiriashi

Miguel1

CrimsonInferno

ShinyToyGuns

Chief(?)

 

Outside Tileset

[miguel1 17]

Well i'm in! these contest are always a good oportunity to improve my mapping skills (if any :mellow: )

Anyways count me in, i just hope we get voters this time <_<

[CrimsonInferno 35]

If I have time before the end (spriting a character) I'll take a stab at it ;)

[watermark 0]

You say use the "Town In" and "Town Out" tilesets, do you mean on RPG Maker XP? Or another one like Rm2k3? Is the tileset from VX ok? Best if you can put up the picture of which tileset exactly we can use.

[CrimsonInferno 35]

It's labeled in the game. I think she meant XP by the way ^.^

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

I suppose I'll enter...lemme get this straight though; we ARE allowed to use other tilesets, as long as we use Town exterior/interior?

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

I didnt think about that. This is an RPG Maker XP contest so ^^" I think it's tilesets 12 and 13...but don't quote me on that...my comp is running virus scan, or I'd load RMXP and look it up.

 

EDIT: You are allowed to use other tilesets, as long as the main town is at least the Town Exterior. If you can make better interiors without using Town Interior, feel free to. Just keep in mind that you'll need to have the tileset in the project if it isn't an RTP tileset ^^"

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

Okay, is it Castle Town, Port Town, Post Town, Forest Town, Mine Town, Desert Town, or Snow Town? xD

[CrimsonInferno 35]

Sounds challenging. Kiriashi might come in here and whoop us on it though ^.^

 

And I do believe they name the tilesets, or mine were named....

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

And I do believe they name the tilesets, or mine were named....

 

Yea, they are named, but there's a ton of "Town" tilesets

[Kiriashi 117]

Did someone say mapping contest? :rolleyes:

 

Emily, I think it would be best if you would post the tileset everyone can use.

 

Also, what are the map size limits? And how many maps do we have to make? Will we get a better score if we make more maps?

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

score will not be determined by the amount of maps you make, but the quality of the maps you make. So, if someone makes a town with 4 maps (say, the town, an inn, a temple, and a tavern) while someone else makes a town with 15 maps, and the one that has 15 maps is of poor quality, while the 4 maps is high quality, the 4 maps would get the points. As for which tileset it is...I think it's the post town tileset? I'm having trouble with my computer right now and getting it to actually load up RMXP.

 

EDIT: Okay, yeah, it's Post Town

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

I just thought of another question regarding the tilesets...are we allowed to say, merge, two or more tilesets together as long as it includes Post Town?

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

Hmm...I don't see any reason why not. As long as you include Post Town, you can use any other tileset you want, so I suppose a merger with it wouldn't be against the rules either.

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

Sweet, thanks :D

[FranklinX 37]

Well this sucks. This is for XP. :(

[CrimsonInferno 35]

Would we have to, if completed, give you a demo of the map as well? I need to know ahead of time :lol:

(cause I don't really know how to do that...)

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

-nods- yeah, I'd need a demo of the map to test it out and such. I'll make sure to add that above. To make the demo, just make the map, add the NPCs and such with the events that would teleport you into the different buildings, then put it all into a zip file and upload it here to RMXP Unlimited's download gallery. (you can also run the RMXP compressor. It'll make an exe install file that you can also upload to RMXP Unlimited if you can't make zip files)

[Chief 30]

heres my map. oh, I should mention, its magical, and only I can see it, but I assure you, its the best youll ever see:

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

Nice one, Chief...is that a sign-up? or a just for fun post?

 

Also, as a reminder, there's only a couple days left for anyone to join this contest, so if you want to do it, sign up now.

[Kiriashi 117]

So we don't even have to us the post town tiles? I am after all, if someone just merges two tilesets (Or more) they might not even use the Post town tiles.

 

I also think that we shouldn't be allowed to use ANY OTHER tileset. I find that cheap, and I'd rather not compete against people who can use any tile they find.

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

That's a good point. Here's how it'll work, then. I've got a tileset I use for Post Town. It's the Post Town tileset, but it also includes some minor additions (walls for making a wall around the town). I'll upload it, and that will be the outside tileset. For the inside, you're allowed to use RTP only tilesets, and your only allowed to use something other then Port Town In if the building is special (i.e. an arena, a temple, shops, etc.) For normal buildings (i.e. inns, homes, etc) you must use Port Town In.

[Kiriashi 117]

Okay, so we can only use the tileset that you will upload. Got it. ^_^

 

Hopefully everyone who is participating will read that post.

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

Could you upload to imageshack or something? photobucket resizes the hell out of those things.

[Kiriashi 117]

She uploaded it to her first post, which you can click and then view in full size on the actual site.

 

Emmy, that tileset is all blurry for some reason.

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

photobucket resizes the hell out of those things.

 

Hence the reason it's all blurry :P

[Kiriashi 117]

No. It is graphically altered. Load this into photoshop and drop something like black or pink or orange behind it. You will see what I mean.

 

 

 

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

it doesn't seem blurry to me...I don't know...if it's blurry, then so is the tileset itself on my computer...in which case, I have no clue what to do...It does have transparencies for some reason, but otherwise, I dunno...

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

it doesn't seem blurry to me...I don't know...if it's blurry, then so is the tileset itself on my computer...in which case, I have no clue what to do...It does have transparencies for some reason, but otherwise, I dunno...

 

Could you at least try to upload to imageshack instead of photobucket? It might help

[EmilyAnnCoons 7]

kk, I replaced the photobucket one with the imageshack one. It looks like photobucket resized it just slightly.