[environmental] Explorer

Massive exploration level.  (fallout theme dropped) I'm trying to make this into an extremely large map that can be explored for a long time. I also want to try my idea for a cinematic or animated cutscenes, if it hasn't already been thought of.

Screenshots at the bottom.

Tilesets that i'm making:
vault tileset, from fallout - complete
city 17 tileset, from half life - incomplete
underground city tileset, my own - incomplete
dirt/ desert tileset, my own - incomplete

Screen count: Used 84, Blank(so players don't see a void screen) 2, Total 86
Percent complete: Undetermined
Zones complete: zero, one in progress
Story: None so far

Since nobody has yet responded , I decided to say something. I read the wild world preview by Dj Gopher and saw that he said it took him 45 min to make a certain screen and I noticed that it doesn't take me anywhere near as long to make a screen. Probably because I'm terrible at backgrounds. So now I've decided to show how I make a single average quality  screen in under five min.     First, i draw the land with a neutral tile. I let my hand flow freely to give the ground a more naturally random feel.     Second, I fill the ground in.     Third, I add the edge detail.     Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth, I add the BG scenery.   I do every screen that way.

I'm surprised this thread slipped through the cracks, this looks like it will be a great level. Have you been working on it steadily since February? You must have quite a bit done by now, but I'm wondering how long it's likely to be before an "extremely large map" sees release.

Ooh, another large level thread! Sorry I haven't responded earlier. This looks like it could become a very nice level! How much of it have you completed so far?

About screen editing, for me it's usually a bit longer than the process you describe. Sometimes the screen doesn't look good enough and I have to change the shape of the ground here and there, or maybe there's some sort of continuity I haven't thought of - some connection with the way the ground is in the adjacent screens - and I have to fix that; sometimes I get carried away and only realize the ground is too high/too low for normal gameplay after I have completed the screen, so I have to redo everything, and so on...

I've been working steadily for the most part but it's slow work even for how long it takes me to make a screen. If it ends up taking too long then I will probably cut it short or maybe even turn it over to the community to help(with rules and supervision of course). I'm very patient so that probably won't happen, but I don't know how patient the community is. Iv'e done much more than 36 screens now so I will need to count them and update that. I also sometimes have trouble with inspiration but that never lasts for long. I sometimes draw some areas before I make them so maybe I could show that.

You should go with backgrounds because they add such depth and quality to each screen it's worth the 2 extra minutes working on them.

It's not about the time it takes to make backgrounds, its that i'm terrible at them

try doing what you do for the foreground, only on a smaller scale with paler colours.

I never thought of that. I'll give it a try. Thanks.

Yep, knytt without backgrounds is like... oh, I don't know... like a thing that needs a thing, without that thing, that it needs.

Looking good other than that.

Updated my screenshots so you can see the stuff i added in the background(not much), updated the screen count, and added other progress trackers.