Island of Doom

[DiM]

Map Name: Island of Doom
Mapmaker(s): DiM, zimmah
Number of Territories: 72 - 20 start as neutral, 52 are distributed
Special Features: bombardments, lots of neutrals, winning objectives, non-classic gameplay
What Makes This Map Worthy of Being Made: it's the island of fricking DOOM
Stamps:


Gameplay: every important terit (temples, radio antennas, volcano, military base, villages) starts as neutral (temples and antennas = 3, all villages = 2, volcano and military base = 5) while everything else is randomly distributed.


final images:
xml: http://zimmah.webs.com/islandofdoomv1.3.xml


large:http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2506/islandofdooml.png
[bigimg]http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/2506/islandofdooml.png[/bigimg]
small:http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2802/islandofdooms.png
[bigimg]http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/2802/islandofdooms.png[/bigimg]


[spoiler=V14]V14:
*font tweaks
*legend icons rearranged
*minor other tweaks

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[spoiler=V13]V13:
*tweaked stroke

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[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V13.jpg[/bigimg]
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[spoiler=V12]V12:
*glow to terit names

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[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V12.jpg[/bigimg]
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[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-S-V12.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V11]V11:
*made the small map
*minor tweaks here and there
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[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V11.jpg[/bigimg]
small:
[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-S-V13.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V10]V10:
*added stormclouds
*reduced brightness of the snow
*tweaked legend text
[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V10.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V9]V9:
*increased distance from island to legend

[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V9.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V8]V8:
*changed legend font and made minor adjustments to the legend

[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V8.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V7]V7:
*moved village from Suracca to Qua
*military base +1 autodeploy
*added a graphic explanation for the red zone.
*connected mutobe - umanet and sukele - ketro

[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V7.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V6]V6:
*finished legend
*tweaks to the legend text
[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V6.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V5]V5:
*added some one way routes
*changed secret base to military base
*started working on the legend
[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V5.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V3]V3:
*added all terit names
*all bonuses
*starting neutral values are set, everything else is randomly distributed

[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V3.jpg[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V2]V2:
*added terits, names, military base, temples, radio antennas, villages, roads, paths and a lot of other stuff.
*reduced the size from 1000*1200 to 1000*900

[bigimg]http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4641/islandofdoomv2.png[/bigimg][/spoiler]
[spoiler=V1]basically a group of people get on the island of Doom. i'm not yet decided if it's a plane crash or the cruise ship simply hit some rock. either way a handful of survivors (2-8) get on the island and fight for survival.

the map is in an early stage and except for the land there's not much to see. however i plan to add the plane/cruise ship, some native villages, a few ancient temples and of course a secret military lab in the heart of the jungle that obviously lets loose a deadly virus. yeah i know it's all very cliché oh and there's also a volcano.
the goal is to get off the island and there will probably be several means to do this: repairing the plane/cruise ship, taking the helicopter from the army base, radioing for help or even the villain's ending where using tech from the lab or spells from the temples you awaken the volcano and destroy the whole island. yeah it's only a win if you're a deranged psychopath that believes he's a demigod that needs to kill all those men in order to get himself back on the other realm.


V1:
[bigimg]http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/3235/islandofdoomv1.png[/bigimg][/spoiler]

[zimmah]

wow, you kinda took all clichés and put them together in one map? :p

[DiM]

wow, you kinda took all clichés and put them together in one map? :p

in the next episode the long lost twin brother that everybody thought was dead turn out it actually is dead.... a living dead, brought back by a spell to suck blood from cheerleaders.

[Victor Sullivan]

Reminds me of ManBungalow's "Marooned" to an extent.

-Sully

[Industrial Helix]

I'd like to see more quirks and story items like that giant octopus.

[DiM]

V2:
*added terits, names, military base, temples, radio antennas, villages, roads, paths and a lot of other stuff.
*reduced the size from 1000*1200 to 1000*900

image uploaded in the first post.

[Flapcake]

Very nice map, and interesting gameplay.

My comment: The Red zone, I can see the need to pass through the red zone, but what does the secret base do, other than the virus comes from there ? it lies in the red zone but at the end of a blind alley, it was just of curiosity to hear why you have made it like this?

Suggestion: create a rute cross the lake to the secret base, then it also function as a pass through.

I realy like your grafic work and your style.

[DiM]

Very nice map, and interesting gameplay.

My comment: The Red zone, I can see the need to pass through the red zone, but what does the secret base do, other than the virus comes from there ? it lies in the red zone but at the end of a blind alley, it was just of curiosity to hear why you have made it like this?

Suggestion: create a rute cross the lake to the secret base, then it also function as a pass through.

I realy like your grafic work and your style.

thanks for your comments. the military base is part of a winning objective together with the 3 radio antennas. since it is so important it will have quite a few neutral armies, that's why there's a way to pass through the red zone but not through the army base. this why you'll have to deal with the neutrals only when you go for the objective.

[ManBungalow]

As with any good objective-based map, needs more regions/bonuses.

[DiM]

As with any good objective-based map, needs more regions/bonuses.

why?

[Flapcake]

Very nice map, and interesting gameplay.

My comment: The Red zone, I can see the need to pass through the red zone, but what does the secret base do, other than the virus comes from there ? it lies in the red zone but at the end of a blind alley, it was just of curiosity to hear why you have made it like this?

Suggestion: create a rute cross the lake to the secret base, then it also function as a pass through.

I realy like your grafic work and your style.

thanks for your comments. the military base is part of a winning objective together with the 3 radio antennas. since it is so important it will have quite a few neutral armies, that's why there's a way to pass through the red zone but not through the army base. this why you'll have to deal with the neutrals only when you go for the objective.

Ahh ofcourse. (the eyes are the first you go blind on )

[isaiah40]

Your Supersize Application has been approved!

[DiM]

thanks for the stamp isaiah.

and here's the final draft ready for gameplay discussions.

V3:
*added all terit names
*all bonuses
*starting neutral values are set, everything else is randomly distributed

so, can i get some gameplay feedback please? and a draft stamp

[bigimg]http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w250/DiM-topia/islandofdoom-L-V3.jpg[/bigimg]

[Victor Sullivan]

The Military Base and Volcano don't serve much purpose other than for their respective objectives. Maybe include some nice one-way attacks, like Volcano ---> Netiro, Volcano ---> Polt, Volcano ---> Vuner, Secret Base ---> Jurib. Also, the dark, "gritty" metal background for the legend doesn't really work well with the font. I'd suggest picking a different font for the legend. You should make the map overall darker and "grittier" to give it more worthy of the descriptor, "DOOM"

-Sully

[lostatlimbo]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

[DiM]

The Military Base and Volcano don't serve much purpose other than for their respective objectives. Maybe include some nice one-way attacks, like Volcano ---> Netiro, Volcano ---> Polt, Volcano ---> Vuner, Secret Base ---> Jurib. Also, the dark, "gritty" metal background for the legend doesn't really work well with the font. I'd suggest picking a different font for the legend. You should make the map overall darker and "grittier" to give it more worthy of the descriptor, "DOOM"

-Sully

the legend is still a work in progress. in fact the background is taken from the steamworks map

[DiM]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

maybe in the next one

[Victor Sullivan]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

Yeah, and the DHARMA stations and giant stone foot? The hell is wrong with you, DiM??!

-Sully

[grifftron]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

Yeah, and the DHARMA stations and giant stone foot? The hell is wrong with you, DiM??!

-Sully

Please don't go towards LOST because that would be silly... but I do agree with lostatlimbo.. this is the f'ing "Island of Doom!"... you gotta make it dark, scary.. have monsters, fires, blood and whatever else makes things scary!... looking at your past maps, you obviously could do something like that, its just not living up to its name atm IMO

-griff

[Victor Sullivan]

Where the hell are the polar bears? And the smoke monster?

Yeah, and the DHARMA stations and giant stone foot? The hell is wrong with you, DiM??!

-Sully

Please don't go towards LOST because that would be silly... but I do agree with lostatlimbo.. this is the f'ing "Island of Doom!"... you gotta make it dark, scary.. have monsters, fires, blood and whatever else makes things scary!... looking at your past maps, you obviously could do something like that, its just not living up to its name atm IMO

-griff

Lol, griff, I was JKing.

-Sully

[DiM]

ok so despite what people might think my inspiration source is not LOST. in fact i have never seen a single episode of LOST. maybe they had a dark scary place there but that's not really what i'm aiming for.
in fact my inspiration source is DEAD ISLAND, for those that played the game they surely know it was a bright lush nice place with gorgeous scenery and yet any time you heard a screamer you'd shit your pants not knowing where the freaking zombies would attack from. point is it doesn't have to be dark to be scary.

[AndyDufresne]

I like the overall aesthetic of this map, and knights and warlocks. I'd probably play this a lot more than knights and warlocks though, since K&W feels like some of your other maps dressed up a little differently.

Best of luck.


--Andy

[Gillipig]

Reminds me very much of your other map Knights and Warlocks. Are you planning to go ahead with both of them or just trying two ideas out and then choosing one to go ahead with?

[DiM]

Reminds me very much of your other map Knights and Warlocks. Are you planning to go ahead with both of them or just trying two ideas out and then choosing one to go ahead with?

aside from some graphic resemblances the rest is completely different. both the theme and the gameplay are completely different than Knights and Warlocks.

so obviously i'm going forward with both.

[Gillipig]

Reminds me very much of your other map Knights and Warlocks. Are you planning to go ahead with both of them or just trying two ideas out and then choosing one to go ahead with?

aside from some graphic resemblances the rest is completely different. both the theme and the gameplay are completely different than Knights and Warlocks.

Graphics is the first second and third thing I look at. Takes me a long time before I even start looking at the gameplay. Just how my eyes work I guess.