I’m making a retro-themed pirate game and I had a first map but I wasn’t super satisfied with it and the design, so I decided to remake it all.
This is the original.
This is the reworked one.
It’s mostly in a draft phase, but I feel like the reworked one is missing something, or it lost its charm, though it’s kind of subjective. Any ideas on how to improve it?
I think the original has some “real life” spatial detail to it. It’s got buildings that aren’t perfectly aligned like I’d expect to see in a small settlement.
The second settlement seems too square, even though you’ve changed the look of the game from square shapes to rounded shapes.
I’d recommend moving the islands further apart too. It seems pretty jammed up since you’d probably row a small boat between them instead of using a full sized sailing ship.
