little suggestion

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little suggestion
« on: January 18, 2013, 14:27:02 »
the game is fantastic, no word for describe but i found i thing that could be updated: the map! the map is all in blue and we can't see various levels/zone
what about create a "dynamic" map that show all the areas? could be useful for find levels very quick, i can't remember all the zone/levels because is a very very big world :D

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Offline Dj Gopher

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Re: little suggestion
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2013, 17:52:21 »
Levels...?

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Offline Haploid

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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2013, 21:46:18 »
Levels...?
He means things like the Infinite Darkness, Utopioca and the Underwater Laboratory. Clearly recognizable areas.

Have to agree. I remember where to find a few areas (the ones I mentioned above), but the rest of the map is just a big blur in hindside. :)

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Re: little suggestion
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2013, 22:53:26 »
As I've been part of the beta team, I can tell you that the map is very hard to change. It may be possible, but it will be very difficult. I doubt Nifflas wants to make such changes, especially since it can only go in the PC/mac/linux version while not in the Playstation version (Nifflas has no control over that build, and has to hope the devs will update it too.)
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Re: little suggestion
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2013, 23:09:44 »
In addition to what LPChip said, there's a few other things that I think would be worth a note. First, coloring the entire map colors that can be both recognized and unique would be hard; it's a big map. Not to mention it'll look ugly. Finally, the game has no 'areas', it's a seemless world, or at least, that's what it's meant to play like, and I happen to think the map reflects that.


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Re: little suggestion
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2013, 00:42:14 »
There absolutely are areas in the game. Like the examples Haploid gave: The Underwater Lab and Utopioca look like no other place in the game and there are many more areas that are just as unique. Also, I find it very hard to believe that a non-ugly coloring system for the map would be as impossible as you say, technical limits aside.


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Re: little suggestion
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2013, 01:20:58 »
That's true, it's just that some areas flow very slowly into others, so it could be hard to color those. As for the amount of colors, I meant that it'd be pretty hard to not re-use colors or make the map more confusing, given the sheer amount of screens in the map. I apologize if I've worded wrongly, though.


Re: little suggestion
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2013, 02:58:51 »
I actually thought about making a map like that just for my reference, but I found it didn't really make sense. Most of the areas are so small it didn't make sense to put them in, and I could never remember what color I assigned each area. I pretty much know where the really big areas are, so it ended up feeling like it would be a waste of time  :/

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Re: little suggestion
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2013, 03:16:04 »
Yeah, the map could use an improvement like that.

When I first started playing, I wrote down coordinates of interesting places in Notepad, but later the more I played the less notes I took. Would've been kinda useless for non-PS players anyway.

I agree with Blox on colors though. There is only so many that can be used before the thing becomes garish or confusingly similar, especially considering the limitations. :P