Starter Map

SCENE 1

The map editor kinda looks like a map editor.

Child Labor, Pt. 1

Why bother making your own spaceship schematics when you can get children to do it for you? That's what we stand for here in Bartholomew's Domain. Good enough for Steve Jobs, good enough for me.

Walking to Other Maps

 

The world grows considerably after you take your first steps.

How to Make a Tile

I'm using GraphicsGale, which is free for Windows. Mac users may find luck with Pixen or Asesprite.

Step 1:
Tiles are 50px by 50px. Creating a new custom grid in GG will set you right. Alternatively, you can just draw a 50x50 rectangle, then draw inside that.

Step 2:
Like a jigsaw puzzle, it's best to start with the edges first. That way, you know they overlap right.

Step 3:
Fill in the middle, still janky and one color. Just need a blueprint.

Step 4:
Get yourself a palette, if you haven't yet.

(Four colors. Kinda blurry here.)




Step 5:
Fill in the shapes, then get rid of those jagged edges!

Er, I mean...

Step 6:
COLORING!!!

Step 7:
Give it a background color, and be sure to color the background with different stuff so it looks complex. Then add a few lil doodads in the blank spaces and you're all set.

Step 8: After EMAILING US for a username and login go to bartholomewsdomain dot org backslash Admin. Then do Gallery > Tiles > Pictures:

Step 9:
Add that sucker. Then go to Map Tile Types and bless your new friend with a name.

Step 10:
Go to a map of your choosing and click on a tile...

...what kinda tile you want?...

BOOM! (you can also double-click on the tiles to the left and stamp it wherever you please).

All done in less time than it takes to roast a chicken.

-Joe

"View World Map"

The beginning of the world map button

Meta Map, pt1

Hey all,

Our first 3x4 sketches follow. Hopefully they aren't too sketchy.

Sincerely,
Bartholomew
Regent-Chancellor
BartholomewsDomain, dot, org

 

The Glass Bead Game

"[T]he Game of games had developed into a kind of universal language [..] Throughout its history the Game was closely allied with music, and usually proceeded according to [...] mathematical rules. One theme, two themes, or three themes were stated, elaborated, varied, and underwent a development [...] A Game, for example, might start from a given astronomical configuration, [...] or the Upanishads[. D]epending on the intentions and talents of the player, it could either further explore and elaborate the initial motif or else enrich its expressiveness by allusions[...] Beginners learned how [...] by means of the Game's symbols[.... .] Experts and Masters of the Game freely wove the initial [...] into unlimited           [???]          "
-Herman Hesse, Glasperlenspiel

Ender sat on his bed with his desk on his knees. It was private study time, and Ender was doing Free Play. It was a shifting, crazy kind of game in which the school computer kept bringing up new things, building a maze that you could explore. You could go back to events that you liked, for a while; if you left them alone too long, they disappeared and something else took its place.
-Orson Scott Card, "The Giant's Drink"

Not a Game

"Selling books is like a game; it has rules, and you have to learn them and get serious about them because it's not a game!"

— Evan, Black Books

A Stock Phrase used on characters frivolous – or apparently frivolous – in the face of a Matter of Life and Death. "This isn't a game." or "We are not playing a game."

-TV Tropes

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

-SCENE V. Dunsinane. Within the castle.

Enter MACBETH, SEYTON, and Soldiers, with drum and colours 

"On the journey I said to myself, 'I am going into the world of men. I don't know much, perhaps, but a new life has begun for me.' I made up my mind to be honest, and steadfast in accomplishing my task. Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of me. People may consider me a child if they like. I am often called an idiot, and at one time I certainly was so ill that I was nearly as bad as an idiot; but I am not an idiot now. How can I possibly be so when I know myself that I am considered one?"

-Prince Myshkin

"Not an Idiot Now"

Part II

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"At least he's dedicated to something. Too many people float around this world doing nothing! Just smoking, drinking and having ten children. But as many of you say, he is still a bit of an idiot."

- JohnnyTheHitman , Canterbury, United Kingdom, 22/11/2012 04:07

Comment, 

"Gaming addict breaks world record for longest Call of Duty session after playing non-stop marathon for 135 HOURS"

Daily Mail UK

"They were so clever, keeping the truth from him all this time. But now was it going to backfire on them. If Ender understood that it was not a game, that the real war had come down to this moment, then he might make some desperate effort, or with his genius he might even come up with an answer to a problem that, as far as Bean could see, had no solution."

-Ender's Shadow

"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the journey alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world." 

-Joseph Campbell

 

Worst Ever Paintings 

 

Google 'Horrible Paintings', first hit

Google 'Horrible Paintings,' twenty-first hit

 

Hesse is no black humorist. Black humorists' holy wanderers find nothing but junk and lies and idiocy wherever they go…. Not so with the wanderers of Hesse; they always find something satisfying—holiness, wisdom, hope. (p. 108)

-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "Why They Read Hesse"

New commands, actions and triggers coming soon!

 

I think it works?

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