Castle Paradox

[chronoboy]

Do flat worlds or torus shaped worlds get you down? Do you want to build a world map similar to Earth, but for some reason the north and south pole touch in GAME?

For some reason, the Japan people always though the world was shaped like a Torus, and they still do, as they are releasing more games with worlds in this shape.

Until an official feature is added into the map editor, here is your wonderful workaround in the glory that is plotscript:

Set this as your map steps for the world map(s), depending on how many worlds or moons your story has:

[Bob the Hamster]

This is less torus-like, but it isn't even slightly sphere-like. It doesn't deal with the distortion issue.

But I don't know of any way to map a grid of square tiles onto a sphere without problems, except maybe something like "Spherical Mercador Projection" like google maps uses, but that would be quite impractical for the OHR's limited tile engine.

[chronoboy]

[Bob the Hamster]

Yeah, it is a reasonable compromise.

I always remember the spherical map issue used to bother me in Uncharted Waters 2 for the SNES, since that was actually earth. They dealt with the problem by blocking the bottom of the map with Antarctica and the top of the map with an ice-cap over the arctic sea-- which is of course perfectly accurate, but it didn't stop be from going all the way around the map trying to find the northwest passage.

[chronoboy]

That would be an interesting feature to add:

* Wrapping map only east/west
* Wrapping map only north/south

At the moment, map wrapping is well, on each side of the map, perhaps adding a feature like this would be nice. Because that is definitely another way to achieve a sphere-like map, block the top and bottom, or left and right.
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[Bob the Hamster]

I also liked what Phantasy star did (at least in some of them?). The worlds are flat spaces inside domes, so no wrapping is allowed, but it makes sense in the story.

I also remember once planning an RPG game that took place on a cylinder-shaped world. The map would be long and narrow, but would only allow wrapping in the short direction. I never did get that one past the planning stages.

[satyrisci]