Wow sounds promising. I think in DLQ the overworld is about 5x10 (16x7 screens) if we count the Death Mountain and there's a small part besides Hyrule too that is mostly 1x4. The rest of the maps were mostly dungeons. 12x12 should definitively be better.

Yeah I think it should be fine. Just as long as map decompressing doesn't take like several seconds so it won't look weird.

Here is a ton of good news for you guys!

1: the overworld map will be a total of 324 screens, which is 18x18!  (I can hear a few 'holy shit!'s in the background)
2: I'm planning on at least 45 different types of enemies
3: I'm thinking a good thought -- bow and arrows?
4: I'm about to post a picture of 9 mocked-up screens using most of the current tiles!  Just hold on for half an hour

...I like good news

Here's today's real update -- seeing some tiles in action



Also, here's some stats:

Storyline -- 60%
Map -- 20%
Overworld/Dungeon Design -- 0%
Tiles -- 80%
Sprites -- 10%
Coding -- 40%
Misc. -- ??%

thanks for the input -- I have contemplated your advice on houses, and I think you're completely right -- they're one tiles too tall.

Thanks ztrumpet glad you like them!

EDIT: and 100 post ratings

here's my map so far, (attached), looking pretty awesome with the south side done, the whole map ~55-60% done.  The northern part will be harder -- in the north are the mountains, the highlands, the frontiers (cold and snowy and desolate), and Mikhail's palace -- which will have to look beyond awesome

also, I'm finding that while 256 tiles sounds like a lot, I'm gonna need room for at least 512 -- 256 for indoors, 256 for outdoors.  I have a way of using the correct 256-tile set depending on where you are on map.


More news, IDK, half is good, half is bad -- the overworld will be comprised of 324 screens (18x18, which sounds like only a little, but that's actually about 80 more screens than link's awakening had -- but it's balanced because the screens are smaller due to the small LCD) which can really put this title at a hefty 20 hours or more of gameplay and exploration (and admiration of the 512 unique tiles )

Bad news?  This will be a ass-load large application (I'm rewriting many parts in assembly) -- 2 pages (32K) for code alone, and 6 more pages (~96K) for the map data and other things.  Yes, that is compress and such, I made each screen only 150 bytes now, which actually holds a TON of data, believe it or not, not just tiles

so, this app will be undoubtedly no less than 8 pages, or 131072 bytes.  While right now I'm mostly focusing on pyyrix, with a few exceptions on TaNF (making the map for instance), one that is done, I will spend 1 hour a day during 4th quarter of school coming up and at least 3 hours a day during summertime, and with that, it might be done this August. yey

the map:

EDIT: sorry, forgot to attach

EDIT2: the size seems comparable to ROL3 or DLQ -- I'll make DJ proud for he is the master of BAG RPGS (big ass games is BAGS, in case you forgot)