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Post Mar 16 2008, 05:18 AM
There are days when no matter how much I accomplish, it just is not enough. sad.gif Today was one of those.

Everything concerning every region is now being added directly to the internal Wiki. This knowledgebase then becomes the foundation that the art, music, and programming teams refer to when they are making and accepting assignments. All of that is a wonderful idea, but it also expotentially expands the number of decisions and descriptions I have to come up with on my own.

Today I came up with descriptions for the pallisade and buildings in Three Bridge Outpost, a commercial and military settlement in the midst of the Oak forest. I also added descriptions of musical themes for several key points in the Three Bridge Outpost area. Then I went to the Oak Forest page and added some new creatures to the magical beastiary for the forest. From the moment a person enters the forest until the time they finally leave, I want them to encounter beasts that are both oddly familiar and shocking in their uniqueness. I'd like to have a dozen, but even after adding today's entries, I am still far from that number.

Now some people are going to read this and imagine I'm being too picky. After all, it's just one tiny forest in the midst of a much larger world, right? Well, the Oak Forest is about one-third of the Kandonda Region. Even so, all by itself the forest is nearly twice the size of most game worlds! If it were dropped into Lineage II, for example, it would cover both Dark Elf and Elfin lands, most of the area around Cruma Tower, and the entire town of Gludio! Over one-third of Lineage II's opening map would be enclosed in the area assigned to the Oak Forest alone.

This is a huge chunk of real estate. Keeping it diverse, interesting, and able to fulfill the needs of everything from a player's first day to the high-level demands of a two-year veteran entering the region for the first time (and yes, that does mean every step in between as well!) is proving to be far more challenging than I first imagined.

Oh, well. As long as I keep pecking away at it I'll get the job done. After all, I have already accomplished a huge amount. One day at a time, right? On the plus side, I am still moving forward. Nothing has had to be deeply redone, re-invented or re-imagined.

But there sure is a long ways to go... biggrin.gif
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Areena
post Apr 4 2008, 03:20 PM
 


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i feel your pain. i thought it would be easy to fill a region until i started thinking about the actual biodiversity that exists in a 100 square mile area. It was kind of an " oh **** " moment.
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