And here it is!
[H]Kobra I started to make halloween series with this map. It was obvious.
I spent many hours making the background (original triangular background inspired me). This is only 1 layer:
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I'm very happy with this, how it looks. Exactly what I wanted. Dracula, ghost, pumpkin and bats. I have to say, sometimes I just find the pictures in Google and draw them in game, but almost always I have to fix them more or less because some parts are ugly and not perfect. I couldn't find any pictures made with triangles so I had to do it on my own
Ofcourse I made the colors darker, made the wall red, used halloween doodads and spider's webs:
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Everywhere on the map you can meet flying ghosts, which appear only for few seconds. I hope they didn't scare you too much!
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[H]Kobra 2
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Boah, 920 kB.
Because the map is huge, I worked hard on the background - you can see it all the time.
Winds cause the trees to sway slowly. Pretty cool effect. Maybe it's simple but I had the idea at end.
Whole map is full of blood and bloody handprints (no ghosts). It feels weird when suddenly you see these red or black eyes looking at you and moving with you. But, this is what I wanted.
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I think it was also long work to mark all teleports with darker shadows, with one more layer.
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[H]Kobra 3
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So here I have to tell a little story.
This was the last map I wanted to make. But I had no more ideas. I just made the background dark violet and started to make clouds, but I didn't like how it looks. Not rly halloweenish. I didn't know what to add, I didn't want to use the same doodads. So the solution was simple - no release, we have enough maps. But hey this is the newest Kobra
So deen motivated me a bit, I finished the design at last day and tadaa.
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I had to edit ddnet-walls image, because I needed something special for (un)hook and hookthr. I would say this design is fuzzy, faded, you know... I made the walls a bit transparent, added some subtle smoke everywhere, made left and right sides darker. Ye, I think it is a good combination.
Ah, I stole the clouds from my not finished, not publicated dm8_saavik so I have to make something else there ^^
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Maybe it's strange, but I tested these maps too. I had to check if eyes and ghosts should appear more often, if things are good visible, if map is playable, how should I change the animations, bla bla. So I spent some time on test server too.
Will I make something like that for Christmas? No.
Can you do whatever you want with these maps? Yes.