Great question! ELSEWHERE is an adventure map a group of friends and I are putting together! Starting off from a lot of different ideas, I finally decided to just start making a darn adventure map and actually go somewhere with it. So that's what this is. Neat huh?
i uh... i guess?
That's right! (Sheesh, you could at least be a little more excited about it)
The map is heavily inspired by lots of different video games, bringing in the puzzling aspects of dungeon crawlers, RPG's, heck we've probably got some room for some platformers in there too. The idea is to bring the player (that's you!) and a couple of friends (if you have any!) on an adventure full of joy, wonder, and sometimes utter sadness.
wow, when does it come out?
Hahah... Hah... yeah I don't know. But hey, it's being worked on now, right?
Well hey, we'll see when we get there, but maybe with your support it'll come out? No promises on that one, but I would love to see it finished just about as much as you would. (at least I think so...maybe)
But hey, click the spoiler button to check out some of these screenshots from what IS done!
wow, i guess that is pretty cool!
Thanks! Feel free to let me know what you think down there, I'd love to hear some feedback!
Wow! Looks fantastic. Will keep an eye on this. Are you just using the default textures?
Yep! I wanted to make a very user friendly map, allowing the player to sorta just pick up the map, put it in a server and get to it! Though, there's been talks between me and my friends about using an optional resource pack, potentially holding some ambient music. It's very unlikely that I will require any texture packs to play the map!
Because I am building the map with default textures, I plan to put in much much more for the player to see, a prime example would be the food in front of these villagers in the Café.
The design of the map is heavily driven with art and aesthetic in mind, using a breadth of different map making techniques to create something (hopefully) memorable for anyone to play!
This looks interesting, I like the buildstyle - it has a certain simple charm about it, like a lot of traditional adventure maps. Like rabid mentioned, there's very few good adventure maps around these days since so many people focus on minigames and gimmicks, so I hope this project goes well.
Thanks! And yes, I wanted to go for a more humble feel, as this is my very first adventure map. I wanted to keep things simple, not going as big and grand as Herobrine's Mansion. I wanted to opt for a more traditional feel, similar to BlameTheController's Kingdom of the Sky and ChronoBasher's Professor Grizwald adventure map series. I felt that those two had a perfect balance of having compelling narratives, and at the same time retaining some very simple design aspects.
My intentions for this map is to give a memorable experience to anybody, from the charm of humble little homes with teeny tiny details, to the stories and events that occur in the world's landscape.
Hopefully these ideas can come into fruition, as I would love to see the vision we've created to be completed.
Thank you for your interest, your support helps us find the motivation to move forward!
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Finally got around to making a REAL banner to represent ELSEWHERE! Updated the original post! Exciting stuff in development, I'll keep you all posted for some delicious additions to the map!
looks nice and not like the most maps where 75% is just fighting it looks like much explore cool
That's the idea! I've also been innovating some fun ways for combat, bosses being a lot more than just regular mobs with a giant health bar. The plan is to have something more strategy based, for instance, you would have to "weaken" the boss before you could do some damage. That keeps the fight challenging, fun, and all while not making it that long! (I think that's pretty cool)
This looks fantastic and you've made an incredible presentation. You could do well to include a video, but the pictures look sweet.
I'm subscribed to this thread now and definitely looking forward to further progress here. As far as I could see from the screenshots, you've absolutely hit that perfect balance between exploration and story. I bet the combat will be riveting as well, judging by your production standard.
This feels like gold in the making.
When you need beta-testers, call me.
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Progress is looking swimmingly! We're trying to hold back on showing too much of the map, but if we get anything not too spoilerific we'll give you guys a little sneak peak!
This looks fantastic and you've made an incredible presentation. You could do well to include a video, but the pictures look sweet.
I'm subscribed to this thread now and definitely looking forward to further progress here. As far as I could see from the screenshots, you've absolutely hit that perfect balance between exploration and story. I bet the combat will be riveting as well, judging by your production standard.
This feels like gold in the making.
When you need beta-testers, call me.
That means a whole bunch! We'll definitely have you queued for beta-testing once we have our map in a more stable stage. That goes for anybody else willing to beta-test our maps!
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Great question! ELSEWHERE is an adventure map a group of friends and I are putting together! Starting off from a lot of different ideas, I finally decided to just start making a darn adventure map and actually go somewhere with it. So that's what this is. Neat huh?
i uh... i guess?
That's right! (Sheesh, you could at least be a little more excited about it)
The map is heavily inspired by lots of different video games, bringing in the puzzling aspects of dungeon crawlers, RPG's, heck we've probably got some room for some platformers in there too. The idea is to bring the player (that's you!) and a couple of friends (if you have any!) on an adventure full of joy, wonder, and sometimes utter sadness.
wow, when does it come out?
Hahah... Hah... yeah I don't know. But hey, it's being worked on now, right?
Well hey, we'll see when we get there, but maybe with your support it'll come out? No promises on that one, but I would love to see it finished just about as much as you would. (at least I think so... maybe)
But hey, click the spoiler button to check out some of these screenshots from what IS done!
wow, i guess that is pretty cool!
Thanks! Feel free to let me know what you think down there, I'd love to hear some feedback!
See you soon!
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Curse PremiumWow! Looks fantastic. Will keep an eye on this.
Are you just using the default textures?
Yep! I wanted to make a very user friendly map, allowing the player to sorta just pick up the map, put it in a server and get to it! Though, there's been talks between me and my friends about using an optional resource pack, potentially holding some ambient music. It's very unlikely that I will require any texture packs to play the map!
Because I am building the map with default textures, I plan to put in much much more for the player to see, a prime example would be the food in front of these villagers in the Café.
The design of the map is heavily driven with art and aesthetic in mind, using a breadth of different map making techniques to create something (hopefully) memorable for anyone to play!
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Curse PremiumWell, I love it. It's not often that we get a really good looking adventure map here. I hope you guys stick with it!
Thanks! That means a whole lot to me
I'll keep you and anyone else who may be interested posted. Thanks again for your support!
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Thanks! And yes, I wanted to go for a more humble feel, as this is my very first adventure map. I wanted to keep things simple, not going as big and grand as Herobrine's Mansion. I wanted to opt for a more traditional feel, similar to BlameTheController's Kingdom of the Sky and ChronoBasher's Professor Grizwald adventure map series. I felt that those two had a perfect balance of having compelling narratives, and at the same time retaining some very simple design aspects.
My intentions for this map is to give a memorable experience to anybody, from the charm of humble little homes with teeny tiny details, to the stories and events that occur in the world's landscape.
Hopefully these ideas can come into fruition, as I would love to see the vision we've created to be completed.
Thank you for your interest, your support helps us find the motivation to move forward!
Ya like art?
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Finally got around to making a REAL banner to represent ELSEWHERE! Updated the original post! Exciting stuff in development, I'll keep you all posted for some delicious additions to the map!
(I promise!)
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That huge tree on the island is probably my favorite part. It looks really cool.
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Thanks! We've got some very interesting story interlaced with that island, it's one of my favorites too!
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That's the idea! I've also been innovating some fun ways for combat, bosses being a lot more than just regular mobs with a giant health bar. The plan is to have something more strategy based, for instance, you would have to "weaken" the boss before you could do some damage. That keeps the fight challenging, fun, and all while not making it that long! (I think that's pretty cool)
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Looks really cool brawler1031 I'll be looking forward to you map :D.
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This looks fantastic and you've made an incredible presentation. You could do well to include a video, but the pictures look sweet.
I'm subscribed to this thread now and definitely looking forward to further progress here. As far as I could see from the screenshots, you've absolutely hit that perfect balance between exploration and story. I bet the combat will be riveting as well, judging by your production standard.
This feels like gold in the making.
When you need beta-testers, call me.
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Progress is looking swimmingly! We're trying to hold back on showing too much of the map, but if we get anything not too spoilerific we'll give you guys a little sneak peak!
That means a whole bunch! We'll definitely have you queued for beta-testing once we have our map in a more stable stage. That goes for anybody else willing to beta-test our maps!
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That's right! Great progress on ELSEWHERE so far! Here's a little teaser
Pretty good eh? Yeah? No?
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Right okay. We'll keep in touch!
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Great news! There's a lot of progress being done on the map, isn't that great?
Anyway, real exciting stuff, maybe once everything looks all nice and sparkly we could go ahead and pump out a neat teaser trailer for it!
Whenever that happens, you'll hear it from me! Here have a (not as exciting as a video) picture teaser!
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