Dark Continent (Colonial Africa) [Quenched]

[DiM]

ah, so the main foundry is your kryptonite

[isaiah40]

I used my special ancient Scottish secret sticky remover!

[The Bison King]

I used my special ancient Scottish secret sticky remover!

Very good sir.

[The Bison King]

How do we like his as a title?

[bigimg]http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/2167/colonialafricaupload2.jpg[/bigimg]

[isaiah40]

I can handle the title area, but how will it stand out when you color that non-playable area?

[The Bison King]

Any one have any font suggestions for the territories?

[natty dread]

Maybe this...

http://www.dafont.com/roundslab-serif.font?psize=xs&l[]=10&l[]=1&text=Egypt

[eagleblade]

you should make it like New World with France, Germany those countries

[The Bison King]

[bigimg]http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4660/colonialafricauploadsma.jpg[/bigimg]
[bigimg]http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/76/colonialafricaupload.jpg[/bigimg]

Ok I finally have all the necessary information right there on the map. How are we digging this?

[isaiah40]

Okay, so after looking this over and reviewing the supersize application, I do hereby stamp this!

[natty dread]

I like the font. It suits the map.

The new legend also looks great.

Small nitpick - on Cairo & Luxor, the leftmost red stripe seems to be a bit too much to the left, considering the intervals within the others...

Also, I think you could do some kind of dark glow around the land, about 4-8 pixels wide, and blurred... to define the land/sea transition a bit more, you know?

Other than that, things are looking real good here.

[ender516]

Quick thoughts:

• I like the new font: very legible.
• "Independent" is misspelled in the legend.
• Using a different colour for the landing territory names is a nice idea, but would be better if it were different from those of the European powers, especially if it could also be used in the legend explaining the landing territories.
• Guinea Bissau may need a little line from the name to the territory; the relationship wasn't immediately clear.
• The mini-map should show Egypt with stripes.

[natty dread]

Using a different colour for the landing territory names is a nice idea, but would be better if it were different from those of the European powers, especially if it could also be used in the legend explaining the landing territories.

Hm, maybe something like a very light blue, like #dfeafb: ██████████████████

[ender516]

Just so long as it can be visible against the non-playable territory background in the legend (north of the Caspian Sea). A black glow might be sufficient to make that work.

On another topic, I think the word "of" should be moved out of the cartouche containing the word "AFRICA" and placed just below the word "Colonization". It will provide a nice symmetry with the word "The", and "AFRICA" would look better by itself, I think. The cartouche could also be stretched/squashed to match the size of the word "AFRICA" more closely.

[The Bison King]

Okay, so after looking this over and reviewing the supersize application, I do hereby stamp this!

Excellent! Though I think I should mention that the dimensions I'm using now are slightly smaller that what I requested in the super-size application.

Small nitpick - on Cairo & Luxor, the leftmost red stripe seems to be a bit too much to the left, considering the intervals within the others...

I think I need to redo all the stripes.

Also, I think you could do some kind of dark glow around the land, about 4-8 pixels wide, and blurred... to define the land/sea transition a bit more, you know?

That could look cool. I'll give it a try.

"Independent" is misspelled in the legend.

Oops.

Guinea Bissau may need a little line from the name to the territory; the relationship wasn't immediately clear.

Agreed.

The mini-map should show Egypt with stripes.

Just slipped my attention. Next update will have that for sure.

Using a different colour for the landing territory names is a nice idea, but would be better if it were different from those of the European powers, especially if it could also be used in the legend explaining the landing territories.

That could work.


Hm, maybe something like a very light blue, like #dfeafb: ██████████████████

On another topic, I think the word "of" should be moved out of the cartouche containing the word "AFRICA" and placed just below the word "Colonization". It will provide a nice symmetry with the word "The", and "AFRICA" would look better by itself, I think. The cartouche could also be stretched/squashed to match the size of the word "AFRICA" more closely.

We'll see. I definitely see where you are coming from, but it may be a lot trickier than it seems to actually pull that off and have it look good.

[wilkinc]

Sorry if this has been mentioned in this thread already, I didn't read all 23 pages, but 'Spainish Morocco' should be 'Spanish Morocco', right?

[The Bison King]

New upload!
[bigimg]http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/76/colonialafricaupload.jpg[/bigimg]
[bigimg]http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1976/colonialafricasmalluplo.jpg[/bigimg]

[natty dread]

Looks cool, but you could smooth the glow more.

[The Bison King]

Looks cool, but you could smooth the glow more.

I could, in fact I did, but I think I like this look better.

[The Bison King]

Oh my bad I forgot to add the line connecting the text and territory of Guinea-Bissau. Next update.

[AndyDufresne]

In regards to the legend text at the top, it looks like you might be inconsistent with the capitalization of "Can/can".

You could also possibly change the first text to: Egypt can be colonized by the both British and Ottoman Empires


--Andy

[ender516]

I wonder if "either ... or ..." would be more to the point than "both ... and ...".

[AndyDufresne]

I wonder if "either ... or ..." would be more to the point than "both ... and ...".

Could be indeed.


--Andy

[The Bison King]

[bigimg]http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/1976/colonialafricasmalluplo.jpg[/bigimg]
[bigimg]http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/76/colonialafricaupload.jpg[/bigimg]
Grammatical fixes mostly.

[DiM]

1. the ottoman empire or at least the portion that you created on the map was not an european power. in fact the ottoman terit that you have there is entirely in asia. so labeling it as a european power is wrong
2. all colonizing countries must have the same flag backgrounds as the landing territories for easier recognition. i can say which flag belongs to what country but maybe others can't.