Re: How big are maps...

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 20:53:42 +0000

>>Olympia feels big, at that size. In fact, it's so big that we've
evolved to mostly teleporting our attacking forces around because
we're too lazy to walk.<<

I guess you have a point.  How many actual squares a game has doesn't really
make it "feel" big, if you can move across the map with a single order, whereas
a 10x10 could seem big if you could only move one square every nine turns and
each movement had a 1000 page lump of information attached.

I still thought they'd be bigger, though, square-wise.

For the record, the *first* DungeonWorld overland map was 500x500.  A quarter
of a million squares seemed like a big map back then.

Since then we've spent four years adding new maps and new places.  There are
now just over 80 million explorable mappable squares on  231 different maps.
That doesnt include any of the sub-modules, like Frontier, Land of the Dead and
suchlike, each of which covers other parts of the world.

The whole world is self-managing and changes within parameters over time, not
to mention as a result of player actions.  It becomes pretty daunting looking
over the maps in the editors, I can tell you!  We're still adding to them
fairly rapidly too, so give it another four years and who knows how big it'll
all be?

Steve T.

References

Re: How big are maps...
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 14 May 2002 16:02:09 +0000

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Re: How big are maps...
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 14 May 2002 16:02:09 +0000