Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer

Mulch Complete

mulchsquareThe map design of Mulch has been completed for Unearthed!  Mulch is the first (and one of the only) true town zones in the game, with a large Grel population living within its caverns.  It is an ideal place for a player to restock on supplies, rest up and gain information about the underworld.

As a sidenote, the only thing I really made unique about this zone are the doors.  I didn’t like the stock “cave doors” that occur in the original EarthBound rom, so I decided to whip up a simple variant.  Take a look at the fancy new doors, as well as the rest of Mulch, in the image below.

mulch preview

4 Comments

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  • You’re definitely showing off some really cool area as far as maps are concerned, but what about the rest of the game? Story? Coding? New features? Just curious.

  • I actually had a lot of the story and game features posted on the old blog, but I never ended up transferring them to the new site. Perhaps I should repost them! It would be good to give people a bit more background about the game’s plot and characters.

    It would be a nice break from the map editing at least! Especially considering I’ll probably be working on the maps for at least another 4 or 5 months.

By Michael
Michael Iantorno PhD Candidate, Game Designer, and Writer