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Max (VGCartography)

@vgcartography.bsky.social

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making maps and posters about video games maps: https://www.deviantart.com/vgcartography/gallery videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKb0fgAJTw12acNBJqYzrOg

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · Jun 5

My name is Max, and I've been making game maps for a few years now! My gallery of 800+ maps is available on DeviantArt and GDrive, but I also have breakdown videos on YT and prints on Etsy. Links and previews in the thread below if you are curious! DMs, questions and feedback are welcome. Enjoy! 🧵

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 2h

this is what it felt like

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · Jan 3

MEGA MAN LEGENDS - Underground Ruins labyrinth. www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 10h

there should've been a running gag like MGS3 where his bag just gets caught on stuff on his way in each time

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 1d

opening shot sweeps

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 1d

sector 4 & 3, original vs. remake. from 3 city blocks to 30+

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 1d

much easier to draw 20 screens worth of simple stuff!

Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 1d

now the author is bleating about beating the woke mob like a dipshit. at least they made those folks happy! I've gotten a couple books from @bitmapbooks.com in the past but no more going forward, pathetic

Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 1d

yeah the different views and stuff were crazy, especially moments like climbing to the plate. they pulled it off, despite being a bizarre concept. (why build a floating plate with miles of undeveloped grassland in all directions?)

Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 1d

Midgar's scale is all outta whack if you look at it from far away + up close. but i figure it doesn't matter much since the game itself is kinda scaled weirdly, just focusing on the landmark areas, but still wonky to reconcile

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 2d

this might be controversial, but all future posts i make will use de-aging technology to appear as if I am posting youthfully at age 29. it will look seamless

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 2d

during a playthrough a couple years ago i used save states to poke at the boss AIs with different weapons and strategies, and focusing on dodging/learning their patterns without firing. i noticed many of them don't shoot until you do, they jump when you jump, etc. very reactionary and exploitable

Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 2d

FINAL FANTASY TACTICS - poacher's field guide. probably will need to update a bunch of names for the remaster... www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 4d

Manny Calavera approaches Cloud in the FF7 flower church, where he plummeted to his death.

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 4d

the complete Peach Estate grounds from the N64 days. rumor was, if you talked to yoshi with 120 stars there was a way to cannon over the hill and explore kartland 🏎️

Super Mario 64 Peach's Castle blended with Mario Kart 64 Royal Raceway track that features a (mostly identical) castle model in the background.

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 5d

more roughing out midgar map layout

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 5d

Final Fantasy 1-13 pixel art final battles mocked up with Record Keeper sprites

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 5d

someone shared a hi-res scan on archive a while back and i had tried cleaning up the models + combining the multi-page ones together since i loved them. nintendo then copyright-struck the archive scan after some articles popped up about it, weirdly

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 7d

better EHRGanized. always liked the portrait art, there wasn't a good simple dump of them I could find so this includes some rips of those how they appear in-game. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 7d

dumped them using PS1 duckstation emulator and shown in Blender, so those models/textures but at a high resolution

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 7d

EHRGEIZ - GOD BLESS THE RING. part fighting, part wrestling, part Tobal 3, part FF7 spinoff. I always thought the FF7 characters were a glimpse at what that game might've looked like if it came out in FF8's place.

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 8d

yeah the hair polygons must render differently, duckstation wasn't dumping some of those dynamic pieces correctly. I'm gonna photoshop it later for the nice final version 🤫

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 8d

what the

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 8d

PS1's fun EVIL ZONE character models. they gave pink leotard girl some pants in the US version 🙈

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Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 8d

it was a lot trickier than Tomba 1 in some areas, but i'm really happy with how they turned out, i think you will approve 👍

Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.bsky.social · 8d

I made some lovely maps for the tomba 2 strategy guide included in these upcoming limited editions!

Limited Run Games @limitedrungames.com · 9d

You’re going to go feral for this one…So feral, you may end up fighting anthropomorphic pigs. 🤜 🐽

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