The world of Elemental Beta 1Z

Published on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 By Frogboy In Elemental Dev Journals

For Beta 1Z we are going to do something different. We are hard-coding it to a particular map so that we can better debug any problems players encounter with it.

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This is the cloth map of beta 1Z. It’s designed with 4 players in mind and is very tiny. But it should let players “play” through the basic game mechanics of Elemental.

I whipped this up in the map editor.  This Summer, players will be able to take a crack at making their own worlds. I hate to say this but I found making the world a bit too fun. It was not really our intention to make the map editor a game unto itself but being able to create maps with quests and naming mountain ranges and forests and such has proven to be a game unto itself.  I made

For fun, I made the Ultima III map:

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More to come…