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Hey everybody. Playing through all of these DMODs is causing me to come up with some ideas, and I am crazy enough to still like the idea of actually making something good 15-16 years too late. Will I ever learn?
I actually have an idea I'm working on for a genuine epic, and I've already got a lot of material planned (even just the bare-bones outline is over 2,000 words). I won't say anything about it except that it deals with extremely dark and depressing themes, as even mentioning the title would read like an announcement and lord knows there are enough of those floating around already. I am pretty excited about some of the story I've come up with, though.
Don't worry, you don't have to worry about me rushing to release something like the old days. You wouldn't see anything out of me until I had done a lot of work behind the scenes. I intend to plan maps out on paper so they don't look and navigate like total ass. Maybe I'd work on some sort of romp or minigame first to get my bearings.
(Incidentally, if by acclamation everybody would like me to never do this again, that would be fair enough considering my past with this sort of thing, and I suppose I'd go back to just writing.)
Here's my problem: I haven't made a DMOD since 2000, so I don't even know how one goes about it these days. Which current editor is the best? I always hated that clunky old Dinkedit, which would take a couple of minutes just to draw a map back in the day. WDE? WDE Plus? Is Skeleton S better than Skeleton B? Which tutorials are most helpful for someone who's very close to being a beginner? Any kind of information like this that you could point me to would be helpful. Thanks.
I actually have an idea I'm working on for a genuine epic, and I've already got a lot of material planned (even just the bare-bones outline is over 2,000 words). I won't say anything about it except that it deals with extremely dark and depressing themes, as even mentioning the title would read like an announcement and lord knows there are enough of those floating around already. I am pretty excited about some of the story I've come up with, though.
Don't worry, you don't have to worry about me rushing to release something like the old days. You wouldn't see anything out of me until I had done a lot of work behind the scenes. I intend to plan maps out on paper so they don't look and navigate like total ass. Maybe I'd work on some sort of romp or minigame first to get my bearings.
(Incidentally, if by acclamation everybody would like me to never do this again, that would be fair enough considering my past with this sort of thing, and I suppose I'd go back to just writing.)
Here's my problem: I haven't made a DMOD since 2000, so I don't even know how one goes about it these days. Which current editor is the best? I always hated that clunky old Dinkedit, which would take a couple of minutes just to draw a map back in the day. WDE? WDE Plus? Is Skeleton S better than Skeleton B? Which tutorials are most helpful for someone who's very close to being a beginner? Any kind of information like this that you could point me to would be helpful. Thanks.
