Thanks for all the comments guys. I'm going on a vacation this upcoming week, so I'll look into them when I get back. I'll be honest though, I thought that I'd be dealing with a lot of these points later on in the process, such as the graphics and gameplay stages.

I just wanted to get the concept ...

This looks fun. I like that it's a continuation of another map.

I like using the roads as the impassable boundaries. It kinda rings true to real life, esp in Florida. Maybe the cross walks could be a little more obvious? Perhaps the zebra kind?

I changed the gameplay notes to the same font as the main title and moved things around so that they'd fit. I'm going to leave the territory fonts as is, because when I changed them, they were really hard to read at such a small size. When I englarged them to the point they were readable, they took ...

I'm not sure about image royalties, but I just googled "blank scroll" and selected large. I found two sites using the same image for different purposes.

http://www.sanditebilliardsandgrill.com/AboutUs.html
http://jjermayne.com/cleaningoutmyclosetm.html

I'll play around more with the font.

In this version, I removed the blue background on the scroll as recommended. I think it looks good without the dark background.

[bigimg]http://i.imgur.com/ywuRH.jpg[/bigimg]

How's this? The "brown backing" from the most recent update is actually the same blue as before, it just looks brown because I did a "multiply" layer merge at 75% opacity. So this is basically the same map with with most of the blue taken out, still using multiply at 75%. I left a little blue left ...

Okay, the scroll's back. I had to scale down the actual map so that it would fit. I kept the blue so that the map wouldn't get lost on the scroll.

[bigimg]http://i.imgur.com/Z6GfE.jpg[/bigimg]

Flapcake wrote:PS. remember to put you last version in top of first page.

Thanks for the kind words flaps. I didn't realize that I could edit the first post. I'll put the latest there.

Thanks koontz. Look forward to an update in a week or so.

Added the tentative gameplay notes. I decided to add a visual element, though I'm not sure if it's "too much." I present to you the blue map and the scroll map.

Here's the normal one:
http://i.imgur.com/Vr3d4.png

And here's the scroll version:
http://i.imgur.com ...

Thanks koontz. I won't be able to add the bonuses and stuff until later in the week as I'm in the middle of moving.

Gillipig wrote:Did you make that image yourself? If you did I wish to congratulate you on a good first draft.

Thanks. Honestly, thank the CA's for making such a useful guide. It contains really good information and tips.

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. In the old days the Avatar kept balance between the Water Clans, Earth Realm, Fire Empire, and Air Monks. But the Avatar has vanished and a new Avatar must emerge to restore balance to the world.

Renaming it "Avatar: Master of Elements" and in the text I will avoid using ...

Thanks koontz. This will definitely end up being the "house brand" version of Avatar. What comes to mind are cereals from when I was kid, like "Fruit Rings" instead of "Fruit Loops."

I'll take your suggestions to heart for the next update. Do you think it would be worthwhile to make a table of what ...

Thanks for the welcome. I don't have any copyright permissions. I'm not sure how I'd go about getting it from a big company like Nickelodeon. Although, I picked up all of the details to make this map from a wikia site, which I maintains its own copyrights. If I got permission for use from that site ...

Water. Earth. Fire. Air. The Master of Elements kept the world in balance. But the Master is no more and the world is at war. A new Master must emerge who will save the world.

Map Name: Master of Elements
Mapmaker(s): barrack
Number of Territories: 42
Special Features: To master the elements ...

Sweet. Once I get permission from the artist, I'll move forward with a proper submission. Until then, I hope this thread gets some more love.

So I happened to find a map designed by a redditor. Perhaps this is a good starting point?

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I actually came here to post the idea and use it as a starting point. I'm trying to get a hold of the creator to his permission to use his artwork as a starting point, and maybe to make some changes to ...

It looks a little too big for its own good.

I don't disagree with you there. The Seattle Neighborhood Map is a little too detailed. If one were to go down this route, merging of neighborhoods would take place.

As kind of a reference, I was thinking that I-5, I-90 and Aurora could serve as ...

We already have a map of Puget Sound, this would be overkill.

The Europa map includes a region called Benelux. The BeNeLux map includes a region called Luxembourg. And of course, there is a Luxembourg map.The precedent is there.

I'd like to see a Seattle map; though it might have to be turned ...