If the game has dynamic lighting effects or colour overlays and no way to disable them, again, be prepared to either pay for a lot of extra screenshots and manual recolouring, or expect a map with choppy colours, especially of the lighting effects consist of gradients rather than sharp shapes.
If the game uses the same colours for the different layers, separating them from screenshots is even harder. If the different layers can't be disabled to allow them to be captured separately, it requires a LOT of screenshots to get the image data needed to look nice on the map, so be prepared to pay for many extra hours of work. If the game has parallax effects, that makes it more difficult. If tile-based, it's easier to reconstruct parts that can't be seen during normal play These are probably the easiest to map, even if no tools are available to disable parallax layers Mapping a game can take dozens, sometimes hundreds of hours, and you'll want to budget accordingly, and perhaps focus on the games that are easier/quicker to map. If you're looking to commission people to map these games for you, you should first sort the games into categories based on what types of assets they use, so that you can approach the right people for each game, and can have a general idea of the amount of work that would go into it. In addition, it's a lot easier to make a case for sharing a finished map with the public compared to sharing raw assets, especially when it comes to modern games. A tool developed for one game isn't likely to work for another game, even if the developers used the same game engine and the same 3D programs. It's easier for some games than others, but there's no one-size-fits-all method, because different games use different methods for storing their assets. Even ripping assets from classic games is hard (despite some emulators having tools for it!), which is why so many maps are made using screenshots. Used up my vidya budget on Momodora, but I'm curious to try to map SK Ripping models from games isn't easy. Since you're not working on it, I'll keep an eye for it in giveaways and the like. The extrapolation is what I tend to do, but yeah, it's really not fun if you can't get lost in it, and when it's too many layers and the layers all share colours, it just gets frustrating. Glad to see I'm not the only one interested in maps of those games though Half of my Steam wishlist is modern pixel art games I'd love to map, but I haven't the time or the money for them. I was fortunate to be able to get permission to post my Momodora: RutM map, not many developers are that responsive. Owlboy, Shovel Knight, Axiom Verge) and sprites aren't becoming extinct and thus are relatively simple to map, so I'm sure we'll see maps of the more popular of those games eventually, provided that interest in mapping in general doesn't die down.Īn additional factor is that since these newer games are still being actively sold and maps that use art from the games violate copyright, posting the maps may be problematic. Plenty of modern games still use pixel art (e.g. That is the main reason you don't see many modern game maps. Since many modern games use non-pixel 2D and 3D artwork, they're much harder to map compared to most classic games, which used pixel art.
Shovel Knight has been partially done by TerraEsperZ, no idea if they're still working on that.
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