Below is a map I had designed for a forest kingdom in Action RPG back in... I think it was 2005. It was well before I started on the current codebase which is why it doesn't even reflect the ability for alternating playfield colors. (I made a few attempts at starting this game in the past, but always got seriously distracted or had a harddrive failure, etc. )

 

I'm likely going to modify it before I ever get around to adding it to the actual rom, perhaps even start from scratch, so a looksee isn't too revealing.

 

I also have a design for the Ice Kingdom which I'll post later on. Again that design was done back in 2005 as well so it will likely change quite a bit before it hits the rom.

 

The list of areas I had for the game include:

 

Northern Kingdom

Ice Kingdom (yeah, further north. )

Forest Kingdom

Fields Kingdom

Island Kingdom

Shadowlands

The Waterfall

Highlands

Coal Mountains

 

etc.

 

Each area would have it's own castle/tower/dungeon/thing. Yeah, that's a lot of crap to expect to shove into this game. I don't really expect to fit it all in, but it's a goal to add as much as inhumanly possible.

 

I tend to write notes up about each of the areas idly as ideas hit while I work on the code. Works well since this way when I look for things that I want to add to the engine, I have ideas of where to expand and why. For instance today on the way to work I wrote up a list of potential weapons and armor objects and roughly how they should work. Which means I have to keep those ideas in mind when I start adding relevant code later. Haven't written much for the weapons although at present it looks like armor will affect defense (obviously) and speed. Heavier armors slowing you down some. I haven't written concrete values for each - I just wrote some general guidelines. Elven Chainmail for instance, should it be found, would give about the same defense as regular chainmail - but have no penalty on movement.

 

Fear not. Assuming it all gets into the game, it'll also get into an instruction manual.