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The touch mouse on my laptop has been broken for years and my USB one's wires have been partially cut
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Nah, I fixed the harddrive issues already and everything else has been working fine. I just need to buy another USB mouse, and maybe get a new fan for it
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I found a rather convoluted way of making the parallax maps and was able to do a thing X'D D'X
To be honest, I do it the old fashion way. Spriting one tile at a time. And that's working "so well" for me...
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Just make sure to test it to make sure your characters can move around. Nothing like being stuck in one spot because of invisible walls...
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How do I know you didnt just spawn him there, huh? Checkmate scrub!
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There are a variety of pros and cons from my experience. Parallax gives the potential for more freedom without having to create a ton of custom tile sets, but takes a bit more work to set up. I think it runs a little smoother, but that might just be personal opinion.
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*working on maps for Harley's apartment*
Hmmm where is in New York is it again.... Coney Island!?
How far is that from Central Park? ....An hour away!? Damn gotta make extra street maps to connect them...
How big is the building? Only 4 stories!? We gotta change this... I'll just add some throw away lines to explain the differences
Hmmm where is in New York is it again.... Coney Island!?
How far is that from Central Park? ....An hour away!? Damn gotta make extra street maps to connect them...
How big is the building? Only 4 stories!? We gotta change this... I'll just add some throw away lines to explain the differences
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or you could install a fast travel system, be it magic, or the train stations
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I'm kinda gonna do that with the sewers when you eventually meet the turtles
But what I meant is that I need several maps for New York so the distance between places make sense
Example: I wanted to make Central Park under the map containing Harley's apartment building but can't since in real life the two locations would be an hour away from each other and putting them right next to each other makes no real sense
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...You do know you dont have to follow the canon right? It's your game which means it's an alternate timeline where Harley moved closer to Central Park or whatever. Just saying.
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Having played and studied a variety of games, I'll say that in my opinion, when it comes to walking, less is more. I just spent 6 hours real time on a single quest, with a lot of potential missables, and 95% of that was slogging through overly large maps and nuisance battles just to get from A to B. Certainly exploration is important, but in this instance there was nothing really to find. You do good work, I'd just suggest gentle scaling for your maps; New York City is BIG!
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The biggest issue is that NYC is meant to have multiple visits so it was always going to be a bigger in game location, I'll figure something out
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You can make large maps with exploring and Easter eggs to find and whatnot, but it's not required to make maps that connect other maps. Or if you really want that, then allow fast travel points for those who aren't interested in exploration. Just a suggestion to help you out.