new look Crossword 1.1 [Vacation]

[Piestar]

You seem to have at least two area's without names.

You have a 3 letter across with a white square in the middle between 87 and 88 across.

Also what should be 67 down, a three letter space, again with a qhite square in the middle.

Maybe this is on purpose, I don't know.

Personally, I really enjoyed my game on the current Crosswords map, but I suspect anyone who needs the A and D to help them grasp this map, will never really enjoy it. Obviously you've put them in for a reason, (I assume someone elses suggestion). Doing so makes it look less like a real crossword however, and it looks silly.

Good luck with this one, I'm looking forward to playing on it...

[Gnome]

I don't like crosswords but I can still give some advise on this map...
For your legend, put the squares in a logic order...

You have bonus 4:
Purple, Orange
blue and pink

make it like it is in the map
Purple, blue
pink and orange

for bonus 6:
make it:
____Green
Yellow and red
_____grey

-I don't really mind for the rest but your attack bridges are bigger than the rest of the squares...
-Also the blue square in your legend misses the left top of it's border
-I don't know why those letters and numbers are in there but they aren't centered and they look pixely (same goes for your title that looks really pixely (actually everything in your map looks a bit pixely/low quality, maybe save on a higher resolution...))
-Why don't you try to make it more realistic...paper like or something special...there are so many tutorials to make a nice looking map out of this...

[spinwizard]

[quote="Gnome"]I don't like crosswords but I can still give some advise on this map...
For your legend, put the squares in a logic order...

You have bonus 4:
Purple, Orange
blue and pink

make it like it is in the map
Purple, blue
pink and orange

for bonus 6:
make it:
____Green
Mellow and red
_____grey

-I don't really mind for the rest but your attack bridges are bigger than the rest of the squares...
-Also the blue square in your legend misses the left top of it's border
-I don't know why those letters and numbers are in there but they aren't centered and they look pixely (same goes for your title that looks really pixely (actually everything in your map looks a bit pixely/low quality, maybe save on a higher resolution...))
-Why don't you try to make it more realistic...paper like or something special...there are so many tutorials to make a nice

MEH, i JUST TOOK THE MAP SOUTHY DID AND IMPROVED THE LEGEND...

oops caps

[spinwizard]

I could try doing a paper type one but it would mean compleatly re-doing the map (i really don't what to do that) as I lost the file and are just working of what southy has done

[Gnome]

I could try doing a paper type one but it would mean compleatly re-doing the map (i really don't what to do that) as I lost the file and are just working of what southy has done

Do you use photoshop? because It's not a lot of work to make that over again...

[spinwizard]

I could try doing a paper type one but it would mean compleatly re-doing the map (i really don't what to do that) as I lost the file and are just working of what southy has done

Do you use photoshop? because It's not a lot of work to make that over again...

nah fireworks, it was made with a grid and alot of squares...

[WL_southerner]

if you look right the white boxes are the same size just that the outter edge is not showing the gray part unlike say the blue is showing a outter line, whitch are part of the box
i did miss out the white box lettering, but each white box will have letters A to
h
can any one tell me how many pixels is 1 box on the old crossword
i do have another crossword pattern idea not the same type of set up if
this one dont work out right

[WL_southerner]

ok with room problems on crossword 2.0 maybe it might need to be
put on hold till there are more pixels to the small map before we can move on with this one, but
in the mean time i have this back up crossword 1.1 with 78 lines
(countrys )
i personaly prefer 2.0 maybe it should go to a vote lets have some input on this please people

[mibi]

ok with room problems on crossword 2.0 maybe it might need to be
put on hold till there are more pixels to the small map before we can move on with this one, but
in the mean time i have this back up crossword 1.1 with 78 lines
(countrys )
i personaly prefer 2.0 maybe it should go to a vote lets have some input on this please people

I hate to say it but.... I think the bonus system is totally arbitrary and very un-crossword like.

A better system that would keep with the crossword theme is to get a bonus per word. With longer words being larger bonuses. This, in my opinion would be more fun because you would actually try to make words and with all the shared borders it could get hairy. Currently you are just playing a different game on a map that looks like a crossword puzzle.

If you explore the bonus-per-word route you would have to change a few things. First reduce the total number of spaces as currently there are too many words and bonuses possible. And second, increase the number of longer words as currently you have a longest word of 5 spaces which isnt very long at all.

I would suggest something like this

3 letters +1
4 letters +2
5 letters +3
6 letters +4
6 letters +7
8 letters +9

or something like that, with there only being two 8 letter words or something.

Sorry for this suggestion being so late in the game as I never really cared for the original crossword map and saw this as just being a boring extension. But now looking at it again, there is really only one way to make this map fun AND keep with its theme, and that is having a bonus-per-word.

Hell, if you choose to stay the course I might even offer up a bonus-per-word map myself as an alternative.

[WL_southerner]

intresting thought mibi, i know the type of crossword you mean word link crossword,where the ending of one word is the start of another thats ok but would need a lot of looking into because you could end up having bonus to big and could end very quickly if held on to for 2 rounds
but i might look into that idea next year

[WL_southerner]

ok we have both sizes now this one large (800x800)




and (600x600) map

[cena-rules]

looking good southy

[WL_southerner]

ty cena what do you think, is it ready to be moved forward

[Blitzaholic]

even lo i like the crossword map we got now its only really good for 4 players, so i came up with this idea it should be good for 6 players plus

ok with room problems on crossword 2.0 maybe it might need to be
put on hold till there are more pixels to the small map before we can move on with this one, but
in the mean time i have this back up crossword 1.1 with 78 lines
(countrys )
this is a small map (600x600)



and the large map (800x800)






Poll Results

Continued with crossword 2.0 map?
yes continued 65% [ 56 ]
no dont continued 34% [ 29 ]
Total Votes : 85

it would be nice if it was a wince bigger for 7 or 8 players, but this may work what you already have here

[laci_mae]

I like this crossword map. I would suggest outlining the whole word in the bold color rather than each square. This would ease the mis-deployment issues. The squares could be lightly marked for effect.

[sam_levi_11]

is southy even still on cc, havent seen him since iv been back...

[oaktown]

is southy even still on cc, havent seen him since iv been back...

Over two months since the last post by the mapmaker, so I think it is safe to say that this map is on vacation at best.

[rebelman]

is southy even still on cc, havent seen him since iv been back...

Over two months since the last post by the mapmaker, so I think it is safe to say that this map is on vacation at best.

the map maker has left this site (there is a story behind his leaving, but im not sure of all the details - so I suspect as of now he will not be back)

[sam_levi_11]

is southy even still on cc, havent seen him since iv been back...

Over two months since the last post by the mapmaker, so I think it is safe to say that this map is on vacation at best.

the map maker has left this site (there is a story behind his leaving, but im not sure of all the details - so I suspect as of now he will not be back)

i know what its about and i dont suspect he will be back

[Tieryn]

Would he mind if someone else took over the map? I reckon I could give this one a go if he won't be back. I'd like to see a bigger crossword too.

[max is gr8]

I take it this is a permanent vacation