Upgrading the Map - Cradle
To prepare for Berlin Con and then our forthcoming crowdfunding campaign we wanted to make sure that our Beta version looks as close as possible to the final product. We started with the map.
This was our old prototype map … “It did the job” … but we needed an upgrade.
… see the new version
- The terrain is much nicer and cleaner and you can see somewhere even trees.
- We made the Italian peninsula wider as it was more densely populated.
- The placeholders for the control hut, faction huts and specialization slots are now graphically distinct.
Our goal is for the map to be historically accurate, so we researched where were the largest settlements and their land and sea connections with each other. There is a lot of history so we focused on 1) large cities above 40k population; and 2) significantly historical sites. We also did not want to include only Roman cities (as they were the largest urban centers), so added also settlements that were special to the Gauls, Phoenicians, Numidians, Etruscans, etc.
Stay tuned for the next weeks – we will keep posting about the improvements for the rest of the game components.
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