Share your maps, your cities, your ideas, your WIPs, etc.
Pic related is my really early WIP of a region called Ariad. It features highways (basically supersized routes with routes, towns, caves and landmarks attached to them).
The green dots are landmarks/caves. The purple are rest stops (basically Pokemon Centers, except they're just little areas with a PC, vending machines and a small healing machine).
Cool. I'd like to see more gyms on it though.
>>26806276
Thanks anon! Remember it's still the earliest sketch so hopefully as I go along there will be more to do.
I was thinking of adding "pseudo gyms" in certain towns, but I think it'd be overdoing it.
This is a few days old and only 1/4th of the total map. I have a huge updated version but its on my other computer which I don't have with me right now.
>>26806499
I should add that this portion is based on California. The other areas are Alaska, Pacific Northwest, and the East Coast.
This Cali-based region is called Nureka, and the PNW region is Arkadia.
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>>26806507
Looking pretty good! I love how big everything is.
Are the mountains on the east based on the real Rockies?
>>26806499
Damn, that looks great. I love how big it is.
>>26806536
Thanks!
>Are the mountains on the east based on the real Rockies?
Loosely, yeah.
>>26806555
Thanks anon. Wish I had the updated version to show. I'll definitely be able to share if this thread is still alive tomorrow.
>>26806499
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>>26806568
Here's a little reference guide for the gyms I whipped up in 5 minutes.
Region based on the Chubu region of Japan. The faded areas with lines represent land from outside the region (i.e land in Kanto or another region)
Also the "?????" just means the name of an area is undecided, I'm not being intentionally cryptic
>>26806657
Not bad! What does it look like compared to the real deal?
>>26806657
That's really good! Looks realcozy
>>26806698
Thanks! This is what Chubu looks like on a real map: http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/74/Japan_Chubu_Region.png
Ended up editing it a bit (sort of like what GF did with Hoenn) since a balled-up region like Chubu doesn't really translate to a lot of "playability" in the Pokemon world
OP here, managed to make a slightly less suckier version of my original sketch.
As you can see, it's based on Southwest US and has a shit ton of desert. Though the theme here is that most of the desertic region of Ariad is based on the ones where there's a lot of flora and fauna, not the Saharan deserts where is nothing but barren sand dunes.
Except for those cream spots. Those are meant to be hell.
Enjoy my shitty naming skills.
>>26807162
Damn, we both made southwest regions.
>>26807168
Best US region deserves all the fanmade Pokemon regions, anon
>>26807184
Really like yours, the names aren't bad btw. Feedback on mine?
>>26806499
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>>26807193
Thank you! Yours looks awesome honestly. I love how big it is, as well as how most of the locations and geography seem to be based on real life Cali.
I'd love to see Arkadia DESU.
Hopefully this thread can survive the night so more people join in and show their progress. If it doesn't live I might do a new one, who knows.
>>26807236
Hey, thanks anon! Yeah, I was born in California so I know pretty much all the geography. I'll definitely post Arkadia in a new thread tomorrow if this one isn't here.
I also have a Fakedex written out for the region if you're interested. It's just names, types, and species, but it gives a somewhat descriptive idea.no im not making a fan game
>>26807269
Great! I can't wait to see it, hopefully I don't miss it, I've been busy these days.
Feel free to share it in this thread, anon. It's meant for sharing stuff related to fanmade regions. Does it include fakemon?Same here. I'd love to make my region into a game, but I'm not a programmer, so sadly it's just staying as concept art
Here's the region for my fan game. It was originally based on the Melbourne bay areas but I evolved the geography to suit the game.
You start in the town below the bay on the centre-left, go anti-clockwise around the lower area and then clockwise around the upper when you loop back.
I tried to be pretty non-standard when it came to the gyms/E4:
>Psychic
>Ghost
>Steel
>Dragon
>Fighting
>Fire
>Dark
>Rock
>Fairy
>Electric
>Grass
>Poison
>Normal
>>26807590
Tips for making BW style maps? Looks great by the way.
>>26807938
You can use this as a resource http://the-godlings-rapture.deviantart.com/art/Unova-Map-Kit-315598823
This tutorial is pretty good but I prefer to start by laying out the towns etc on an 8x8 pixel grid and then do the geography underneath http://the-godlings-rapture.deviantart.com/art/Unova-Map-Tutorial-315598745
Making this region from scratch, only just started.
Decided to join in and throw this region together. No promises about its quality.
There'll be a series of locations and a town underground
Finally came up with city names. I think the theme is pretty obvious.
I tried making a B/W-styled map, but I can only make it look like total shit so HG/SS will have to do for now.
I've started working on this like a year ago and never finished it.
Starter city is bottomright. Comes with it's own Safari Zone where you can catch your own starter pokemon.
>>26808599 here, currently giving the gen 5 mapping style another shot. This only has a portion of the landmarks and stuff, I'm still working on it. Fuck this is hard.
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>>26808297
How do you make the mountains not look like absolute shit? It's even worse since pretty much the entire top border of the region is one massive mountain range.
>>26810820
Oops, I was supposed to resize it.
>>26810852
Looking good so far, I'd say you did the bw map style pretty well
>>26811265
Thanks. It's much better than my first attempt, but the mountains are a real shitshow since I don't want them to look like I copy/pasted the same mountains a million times. I'll also somehow need to make my own snow routes since Unova didn't have those.
>>26811853
>look up my fake region and names used for noting version exclusives
>sol and luna
>it's basically Sun and Moon but using Latin names, except before g7 was even announced
For whomever may be interested, look up "island generator" on google, first link can make a bunch of random maps if you think it'll help.
Slapped a shitty example map together.
Perlin shape works best imo, though it depends on what you're going for.
>>26812153
Posting the example may help.
Shit.
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>>26812161
You can even do shit like this.
I wanna try make a shitty region map, hold my beer.
Phew, I think I did it. How does it look? Are the mountains ok? The green dots are still subject to change depending on what the final plot ends up being.
Also note that this is the pre-E4 region, after beating the game there's a bunch of new routes and caves and extra areas. I'll add those next.
>>26812643
Alright, so I finally done some work on it.
How's it look?
So I created this region when I was like 9, drawing in a notebook, and I came back to it and am trying to bring my old ideas to life. Its north of Kanto/Johto.
>>26814386
Hello guys! OP again. I'm happy to see that the thread survived the night and now there's more people posting.
Thanks to >>26807958 and >>26812153 for sharing two very useful tools. For those wondering, this is the Island Generator that was used:
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/polygon-map-generation/demo.html
Remember you're free to post anything regarding the region in this thread, including concept art, fake pokedexes, lore, etc.
This pic is the quintessential example of me not being good with landscapes. It's meant to be concept art of the first Highway of my region.
>>26814386
I don't know what to tell you anon. I'm really at aloss
>>26806208
wtf is this shit. It looks like a snake with some stick-guy dancing on its ass
>>26814897
It'sthe result of not knowing how to make maps but still wanting to make one
I did a better updated version in >>26807162
>>26814510
that's kawaii as fuck nigger
>>26814510
>dig out my old map from when I was a kid
>it's embarrassingly bad and filled with edgy shit
You guys remember Pokemon Comfy v2.0? Happened some months ago. Here's the region we came up with. I didn't do this actual map, but I was fond of it. Not in the style of the games at all, but worth showing.
>>26817215
And a tilemap of one of the first towns. This was my work, gotta' say I'm pretty proud.
Did this a while ago, based on Southern Ontario
>>26817303
nice, almost looks real
>>26817303
btw I realize the fake starers I did are really bad, it's okay, but please feel free to let me know
Also here's an updated version of that map
>>26817313
thank you! I put a lot of work into it
>>26810820
Place a bunch of them around the area you want to be mountainous and then get some blending going on, either manually or with some of the handy tools in photoshop. The tutorial I linked earlier explains a little about this. Looks like you've done a pretty fine job to me though, anon.
>>26817320
Nice! I think the starters are alright. I'd pick the water one
>>26813228
Finally finished! Left is the regular region, right is post-game.
The plot would revolve around the legend of the region's creation. It is said that a massive pokemon literally pushed together a bunch of continents using its massive strength in order to create it. Some say that the large variety of biomes in the region is a result of these different slabs of land being mashed together, and there's various gorges and deep canyon rivers which some theorize to be the places where the different parts fit together.
Atlas Corp. is a large company who discovered massive amounts of primal energy underneath the region. They gained notoriety for turning this into an renewable energy source for the region. However, through the plot you find out their CEO is actually using this to look for the legendary pokemon, which they believe is the cause of all this primal energy and is resting somewhere beneath the region. They wish to use it to basically rip apart the region and rearrange everything to create a new region that is perfect in every way to suit their needs.
Of course you stop them and catch the legendary at the end, but its awakening shook the region. In the post-game, some routes got rekt and are now rearranged. Some walls have now crumbled, revealing new pathways behind them. Some holes in the ground have appeared, opening up entirely new cave systems. So now you can pretty much re-explore the entire region and find a lot of new stuff, including new rare pokemon who are starting to emerge.
I once made a pokedex for it using real pokemon (the legendary being Regigigas), but I'm currently making a fakedex which is a VERY slow process.
