First the layout, the theme and such. Entities go later in the process.
Or at least that's how I work.
Created 20 years ago2004-09-11 23:54:37 UTC by lucky4444
What I do if I'm stuck is stop mapping. I'll take hour, day, week-long breaks from MappingHe'h i took about half a year.
[quote] an underground digger mabober that goes streaming down into a giant lake of lava, and is driven around on small falling rocks, bumping up and down, trying to find a way out when a lake is emptied out into the lava, which causes steam to shoot everywhere, making you shoot up with the pressure of the chemical reaction, up into the air where you start hurdling down toward earth at incredable speeds, so you press the eject button, but it is jammed so you do it manually, and then you find out you have no paracute, but a giant bird rescues you, but is actually trying to feed you to her young, so you kill the babies, who are really big, and the moma comes back and attacks, so you jump on its back and ride it over a big ocean, where it dies, and you fall down, but land on a whale, but sharks kill the whale and are moving in on you, so you shoot them, and try to swim back to shore when a dolphin saves you, but poltures kill the dolphin, so you shoot at them, but then the sharks come back and attack the poltures, so you swim to shore only to find out you are on a desert island, where you sit around and talk to a volly ball untill you starve. [/quote]
i think of a good idea then make the map to surround it.This usually ends me up with a half-finished map and no inspiration to continue... wich is why I changed my working method.