Think about what the purpose of building a map is in the game. There's two reasons it is done - as a required part of game play to get the full experience (what I'm guessing that Little Big Planet falls under), or as an accessory that creates a new experience. The latter is the only one that real...
@fbueckert Well, my gut opinion is that that a question like that would be on topic, because game music is an interest of mine for a while and I consider myself knowledgeable. But that's just me.
I want to make a Tower Defense game using the StarCraft 2 editor.
How can I make a rally point to control AI appear at one point and go to specific point? How do I make creep spawn properly at specific times?
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Distinctions should be made.
Questions about using bundled modification tools
"What does 'external height' field mean in the Darwinia map editor?"
"What's a good tutorial to start making Quake 3 maps?"
These questions definitely belong here, in my opinion. They are about using tools provided...
So why does the top upvoted answer say questions about bundled map tools are okay?
Ok, so I've run into a Cidhna mine bug, whereupon entering the area after completion of the quest No One Escapes Cidhna Mine, all the ore veins become effectively unuseable. Instead of the normal mining interation, when clicked on they instead pop up the rest dialog!
As background information, I...
A challenge "Pirate's Booty" asks you to open lots of Pirate Weapon Chests.
Obviously, most pirate chests in existence are in the Leviathan's treasure room, but it is only accessible twice during the main and the encore (dammmm, I LOVE this word in English) quest.
What is the best route to farm...
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@badp I don't know about you, but when I play around with map editors in games, I am playing the game. I get enjoyment out of messing with various elements like that.
@GraceNote Had a friend use that for a project. They hate the software as its anti-piracy measures are.. very aggressive even if you have a valid license for it.
@GnomeSlice If it's a game and the gameplay of the game is making games then yes, we would accept questions about playing the game that is making other games
@GnomeSlice That was in response to RPG Maker specifically, in response to my misleading comment that, when misread, implies that RPG Maker is a game where the gameplay is as such.
Anyways, should I be making a meta question about whether or not we want to allow questions that are only orthogonal to playing games, just because the artifact in question came from a game?
Just like if Minecraft is a game and the gameplay of the game is making maps then yes, we would accept questions about playing the game that is making maps.
On the other hand if Empire Ages is a game and the gameplay of the game is building an empire and conquering the world then no, we would not accept questions about making maps because it is not playing the game.
I just don't understand the argument that 'we are about playing games and nothing else' when we have shitloads of stuff that doesn't adhere to that very strictly.
We are having issues with crashes in Fallout: New Vegas on the PS3. We tried our savegames on another PS3 and encountered the same problems. Starting a new game on our PlayStation, or loading the savegame of a friend does not have any crashes.
My girlfriend's savegame does crash very often, mo...
The point being that one question I'm asking how the base should be built on the island while the other is asking how an island should be built for the game.
@GnomeSlice The fact we aren't too strict on this stuff makes me personally happy, don't be mistaken. I would've loved Arqade to also cover game design in general, for example, but that's not what Arqade chose to became.
Now that the Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative is out, I've been looking at some of the available maps, but I'm not sure how to actually download them.
I've gone into an author's or collection's page, where I can subscribe to an item. I've clicked the Subscribe button and the subscriptions h...
Can regular owners of the Skyrim game make mods for skyrim? Will it include mod tools, level editors, etc?
If not, are there any customizations that end users can do?
At the end of each world, there's a brown dinosaur who tells you that the princess is in another castle. I get the Mario reference, but is the brown dinosaur a reference to something else or is it a character original to Braid?
At the start of Portal 2, it's clear that time has passed. You've been woken up every few months for physical and mental fitness tests, until something goes wrong and you're left in stasis for much longer. How long is Chell, your character, in stasis? How much time has passed between the end o...
I've completed Mass Effect 3 and just started a second playthrough before learning that this patch was released.
How do I get my original Shep from 1 & 2? Do I need to start a new game with an ME2 import, or can I use the ME3 end-game import? I'm assuming the former, but would I then lose al...
@GnomeSlice We've had that discussion a few days ago. You'll see the discussion was closed a few days ago with an example about how to watch Netflix on the PS3 - open, answered and upvoted
I just bought ME3 but I don't seem to be able to import any save games from ME2. I even launched ME2 to be sure I certainly finished the game, which I did (and Shepard's alive). I triple-checked that the save files are in the right folder (Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2\Save).
Is there any reas...
@GnomeSlice I think the general view is that if its overall related to the game, how do I make a mod for XYZ, is there an editor for ABC, Can PDS play game ASD etc then it is on topic here. But if someone wants to know how to use those editors for making a mod or a map or the like, then its off topic man.
I mean, I'd say there's a bit of difference between a game whose map editor complexity demands a separate utility entirely, compared to, say, Battle City's map editor system.
@GnomeSlice It's an old NES game which you drive a tank and shoot people. There's a simple tile-based custom map setting you can do to make your own maps in-game and play them. I could also say Loderunner's map editor in the same vein.
I seem to recall questions about how Minecraft randomly generates worlds on the site before. Minecraft is about building the world... but that kind of question is clearly an implementation detail.
@GnomeSlice Yes, actually, that's much the root of it. When a custom map development is along the lines of, say, recreating a shmup or recreating Contra in the engine of StarCraft 2's map editor, that's an entirely different realm of logic, knowledge, and utility.
The only difference between questions about making Contra in the SC2 editor and making Contra with, say, Game Maker, is the tool you're using. But the core of the questions remains on the edge of developing a game - the tools don't change the nature of the task. That's the outlook this was taken from, and we expanded it to map editing in general just to avoid ninwilking on fine details of when a map editor is or is not complex enough.
Exactly where does this fine line sit with Portal 2? There are two versions of the map editor: One in-game and one out of game. The one in-game is used to create maps for the Perpetual Testing Initiative game mode.
The out of game mode one (Portal 2 Authoring Tools) also doesn't have the restrictions that the in-game one does.
I want to make a Tower Defense game using the StarCraft 2 editor.
How can I make a rally point to control AI appear at one point and go to specific point? How do I make creep spawn properly at specific times?
Distinctions should be made.
Questions about using bundled modification tools
"What does 'external height' field mean in the Darwinia map editor?"
"What's a good tutorial to start making Quake 3 maps?"
These questions definitely belong here, in my opinion. They are about using tools provided...
A challenge "Pirate's Booty" asks you to open lots of Pirate Weapon Chests.
Obviously, most pirate chests in existence are in the Leviathan's treasure room, but it is only accessible twice during the main and the encore (dammmm, I LOVE this word in English) quest.
What is the best route to farm...
We are having issues with crashes in Fallout: New Vegas on the PS3. We tried our savegames on another PS3 and encountered the same problems. Starting a new game on our PlayStation, or loading the savegame of a friend does not have any crashes.
My girlfriend's savegame does crash very often, mo...
Can regular owners of the Skyrim game make mods for skyrim? Will it include mod tools, level editors, etc?
If not, are there any customizations that end users can do?
At the start of Portal 2, it's clear that time has passed. You've been woken up every few months for physical and mental fitness tests, until something goes wrong and you're left in stasis for much longer. How long is Chell, your character, in stasis? How much time has passed between the end o...
I've completed Mass Effect 3 and just started a second playthrough before learning that this patch was released.
How do I get my original Shep from 1 & 2? Do I need to start a new game with an ME2 import, or can I use the ME3 end-game import? I'm assuming the former, but would I then lose al...
