Design a map!

Post by **Pikachu3828** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:12 pm

Ok, let me explain. I have released information on how maps work and how you traverse around the world of The Pika Club. The trouble with this is, I have to create images for every single route/town and then fill it with information like what PokÃƒÂ©mon can be caught there and other actions like trainers and their PokÃƒÂ©mon etc.

This takes up a lot of time which I could spend doing other things and getting The Pika Club Version 3.0 up faster. You can help with the development of Version 3.0 by designing maps for us! If it's a real route you could help out even more by giving an idea of what PokÃƒÂ©mon can be caught there in the games and what their stats/movesets would be like

Maps can be of routes. In The Pika Club, caves/forests etc are included as routes. They don't have to all be real routes, but at the moment authentic ones would help. I've currently done Route 29 (Real route, longer in The Pika Club though, goes from New Bark Town to Cherrygrove) and Route 32. Any other real routes are up for grabs.

As for specifications, there is no alloted size for routes as such, but make them around: Height : 347px, Width : 432 pixels. As for file type, please make sure they are .PNG (Microsoft Paint allows you to create .PNG files)

Post them here, but make sure they're quality maps! After all, yours may end up being used as an authentic map on The Pika Club! That means they must be of a good quality and feature as minimal evidence that they've been cut/copied and pasted together as possible, so minimal clipping please! Also, please stick to graphics from Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/Fire Red/Leaf Green.

Need some sprites to be able to make that map of yours?

http://www.thepikaclub.com/forum/images/spriteset.png

Post any questions/finished maps etc here please!

Website · Post by **Powerchu** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:16 pm

I was thinking of designing a route but I don't know where to get pics at mind helping me out with that?

I was gonna try to make something like the Ilex Forest in G/S/C

stevie_2 · Post by **stevie_2** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:21 pm

Are you looking for all the routes? Ive just found a list with pics of routes 1-25

Powerchu link is http://www.vgmaps.com/Atlas/GBA/index.htm#P

Post by **Pikachu3828** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:26 pm

stevie_2 thank you so much for that link! That will really help for the towns

As for routes, I'd prefer them to be custom made rather than a direct copy of the ones from the Gameboy games

stevie_2 · Post by **stevie_2** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:28 pm

ahh ok i'll see what i can do with it then. Hopefully i'm not too bad

Website · Post by **Powerchu** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:31 pm

yah I wanted to make an ilex forest but without anything to use to build a map I really can't do anything.

Here is the Ruins of Alph if you wanna use it on here which would be kinda cool to do. I found the pic on the site that stevie posted.

stevie_2 · Post by **stevie_2** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:34 pm

Well i'm going to start on the maps tommorow, as its 10.30 pm and i'm too tired to start anything challenging :lol: I'll just test around for now

Post by **Pikachu3828** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:35 pm

Improvise, I did

As shown in the weblog, the adventure begins in New Bark Town. Straight away I've had to create it myself as New Bark Town has not been updated for the next generation of PokÃƒÂ©mon games. Just rip the maps apart and place the objects together

For Ilex Forest, all you need is some grass, water and lots of trees

Feel free to add some of your own sprite art if you're good

stevie_2 · Post by **stevie_2** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:39 pm

How many routes are there in total? Also are you wanting the route's to have the same exit/entrance positions but with a different layout?

Post by **Pikachu3828** » Wed 16 Mar, 2005 11:43 pm

To be honest, I have no idea how routes there are in total

And yes, I would like routes to have the same entrance exit points as in the games so they connect up, whoops, should have mentioned that sooner, sorry

Also, I'm currently around Azalea town at the moment so any routes after that would really help, if anyone's wondering what routes would currently help the most

Website · Post by **Powerchu** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 12:15 am

I messed up so I will try it when I have more time like on the weekend. lol

Pikachu90000 · Post by **Pikachu90000** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 12:17 am

This could be part of a route

stevie_2 · Post by **stevie_2** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 5:47 pm

Pikachu90000 wrote:
This could be part of a route

not trying to be nasty or anything but you can see the copy and pasting all over the shop

Post by **Pikachu3828** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 6:58 pm

Yeah, sorry Pikachu90000 but I agree with stevie_2, I did ask for minimal clipping but I can see instances of it almost everywhere

stevie_2 · Post by **stevie_2** » Thu 17 Mar, 2005 7:39 pm

There we go, took a while though

What do you think?
Exactly Height: 347 Width : 432 Just as you asked