Thread: City and Building tile set request

Wow, I was just reading through my post again and I guess staying up late looking for resources makes you sound like a robot with a stick lodged some place ><

Just a quick post to clarify some things because it seems like I'm asking for help to map the surface of the world right? But no.

I would like to see a continuity in the artistic style of the world and country maps assuming I have any takers, but this doesn't mean they all need to be done by the same artist. It would be nice if regional maps retained the same loose style but its not absolutly necessary. Town maps - an effort will be made to get the basics of each town correct. However as you can see on the town map example above it will be made up of modular sections for faster development, as this is the main playing map its desirable they be done in the same style.

The sample shown above would allow me to model an entire regional town (population around 50k) to an good standard for my game, each quarter of a block takes a mere 4 tiles (including foot paths and half the road), its variety between towns that I can see being a problem. I guess with vehicle over lays and some mini scene type stuff this can be avoided.

Also nothing was mentioned about copyright, so far as I'm concerned it's your art you can do what you like with it, I would ask for exclusive use in web based format but ultimately that's up to you. In fact I would encourage people to post the maps up for sale on sites like RPGNow.com, at least that way your likely to get some sort of payment as opposed to my proposal :S

Finally, looking over the site every single one of you that has posted any sort of map have more artistic talent in your toenail than I do in my entire body... its true!

You could use The forest generator for random encounters in the woods. And there is CC3 which does that kind of suff easily. Look it up.

Thanks for the tip.

To show the type of development I can offer in return for any ones help I have decided to upload a demo of basic game functionality involving the maps. All .php coding has been removed so this is purly .html and java script, and could be used to show of your maps. I am also able to integrate zooming functionality ala google maps type stuff if needed.

I could provide it in .zip format if you want to play around with it yourself, or develop it further with your maps to get what you need.

For a closer look go to the demo here.

Wek.

Hi Wektis,

I can't help you with your request, but I hope you are able to finish this game. I love zombie movies and games
Very interested to see how this turns out. Bookmarked your site!

I've looked at the demo, that is a huge amount of mapping required for the finished product, Wetkis. It looks like a great project and I wish you the best of luck!

At a conservative estimate:

World x 1
Countries, say x 150
States per country, say x 6
Regions per state, say x 4
Towns / Cities per region, say 4

= 1 X 150 X 6 X 4 X 4 = 14,400 maps.

Tiling maps for the cities is a good way to go, but I think you might need to look at automating the process somehow.

Hi Ravells,

I made another post that hasn't yet been approved by a moderator, I guess because it had another link in it? It was to the map demo you mention which wasn't up previously. (if anybody wants to see it go to the development blog on the site.)

The basics of that post was that I realised pretty much what you did, I'm going to use maps in the style that are currently there for world, country and state courtesy of screen shots from a site called Map Box. The regional maps I'm still not sure about, for the Austrailan based maps of zones I'll be using maps from each of the Departments of Main Roads (per the demo).

Also in that post I mentioned that for anyone that is able to contribute to the project I can modify the demo script to display their maps on their site, and can include zoom functionality similar to google maps.

So basically:

World Map: Completed (happy to take a contribution if somebody wants their work on there)
Country Maps: Completed (see above)
State Maps: Completed (see above)
Regional Maps: Not happy with what I got, but useable (contributions welcome)
Zone Maps: Australia is Completed (courtesy of Main Roads Maps)
Town Maps: 0%

I should probably share my intentions for how the game will develop so it doesn't put off potential contributors because it seems like such monumental task.

The materials to produce just one town map (the tiles I'm requesting in my first post) are more than sufficient to produce the entire game. Once I have some town tile contributions and I'm able to set some standard Image sizes all town maps will be procedurally built via .php scripting.
I will be developing a web based editor where people can manually assemble those tiles to more accurately reflect their home town or one that is not yet available to play in and submit them for approval for insertion into the game, or to play as a custom map.
I am considering including some sort of gallery system where anybody can upload maps for states/regions for approval and inclusion where non are currently in place.

So basically I'm trying to put as much control into the players and contributors hands to make a zombie style game they want to play, its all depending on the town tiles at the moment.

There is so much extra "stuff" going on with this project feature wise it's hard to put it all into a forum post (and most of it doesn't relate to cartograpy) but I hope the above info was helpful!

Wek.