In the end it just turned out to be a prototype of a Africa-inspired continent generator. My first try on Hexagon Maps and random content generation.
Feel free to leave a comment ;) even though it's not a game.
Credits: - The background music was created by my brother. - Tileset mainly created by me (with the exception of a greatly shrinked photo of a Zebra and a water tile procedurally generated with SPARTAN)
I can't think of much to say about this except that it made me realize how rare it is for procedurally generated mountains in video games to form winding ridges like they do in real life. When modeling the real world, it's tempting to forego looking at the world itself and only look at other people's models, but neat little details like that are a reminder that it's good to draw on sources from outside the medium you're working in, lest you risk doing exactly what everyone else has already done.
@Stuntddude I'm not 100% sure whether you were saying that in my case the mountains were well done... (But English is not my first language D: so I might have misunderstood you) But if that's the case then thank you :)
Awesome, even though it's not a game, nice work, I really need to learn more about generation and map like that. Looks like a god base for a strategy type game or something like that ! :)
Full-screen seems to keep the game just in the upper corner. Also your game says only Windows so I was pleasantly surprised to be able to play it in-browser, but you could add the link to that category too so people looking for Web-only can find your game.
The maps themselves are well done (especially the mountains as pointed out--compare with memories of CivII or something where they're just random clumps, IIRC) but I think the coast could be a bit more ragged sometimes, i.e. it has a lot of very straight sections. Other than that, cool stuff. :)
Nice! It would be cool if you could add a player to move around, maybe interact with things. It's a good start to a really cool game!
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TheMysticalBard23 Aug 2016, 01:51
Very civ-like tile system, looks really neat! Different types of tiles and a little more fleshing out could allow this to be used for some really neat games!
Neat tool! I included it in my compilation video series of all of the MiniLD 69 games, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/zvJsR-o5VAA
idk it's pretty cool I guess.