Hi, I am new to PC but i have been ROM-Hacking for a while now after playing your ROM Hack "Life of Guardians" and loving it. I started making my on ROM Hack however i suck at spriting so that quickly vanished. Until i saw the team discussions thread and i thought i should join a team as a mapper when i saw yours i immediately clicked on it to find you were looking for mappers so here is my application. I hope you like it.
Name: Jdb100 (you can call me JB or JDB if you want)
Mapping Experience: I am not good with rating myself so maybe like 3?
My thoughts when making these:
Cave: When i was making this map i find that most caves in the game are very linear so i wanted a cave the player could explorer but not get lost in. The way i accomplished this was by adding many rocks which could be used as waypoints(which would also make sense because of an open area like that the roof wouldn't be well supported). As well as trainers on the path you need to go(there aren't many trainers because the players pokemon would only be around level 10 - 15).
City: On this map i wanted to make a small town to be the players home and make it easy to find what you want. The map is very spare and simple as that is what i wanted so it would be simple to navigate for new players. You may think the grass would cause you to have a battle with missingno however the player gets his pokemon before leaving his house. The player would then go see the professor to thank that would start the story line.
Route 1: This was the first route on the game i left it so that the player can avoid the grass if they want and there is enough grass to so that if you want to train on your way to the next town you could. While still making it so you have to go through the grass the pond is there to add some variety as well as looking nice. The trees on this route may look very messy but it is like that on purpose because i always thought that a forest doesn't have trees in a line so i made it with trees close but not in lines; You may have seen others do this before but something i see with a lot of these(not all) is that they have a bunch of ways the player may see as the right path which would confuse the player unintentionally.
- are you willing to map a Ruby ROM? Yes, these maps were made in ruby.
- are you willing to map with the given tiles? Yes, that is why i want to join because i am terrible at spriting tiles.
- do you actually have enough time to offer your help in mapping? yes, i can probably put in 2-5 hours a day and 3-7 a day on the weekend.
- are you going to share the patch with others when you're accepted? no, i will keep the patch secure and accessible to only myself.