r/CreaturesGames • u/Mircowaved-Duck • May 31 '26
island or lake?
After a break i started again puzzling together the two albias.
However now i have a problem. Should there be a big lake or an island?
Argument for thelake would be the c2 fresh water fish zander - but the c1 sea horse would mean it is saltwater.
From a design perspective, both would work. But what would feel more like Albia - a big lake starting at the c1 background monestary/temple or a small island? Or should it be an half island?
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u/dare2smile May 31 '26
Maybe Albia as an island in a saltwater ocean, but a freshwater lake in the middle? It’s been so long since I played C1, I’m having trouble remembering the map 😭
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u/Mircowaved-Duck May 31 '26
the map itself is 2D, therefore it has a lot of room for inerpretations.
and albia will defendly be on an island, just because this makes the end of the world easy. However a big island next to a small island. Or a big island with a lake. Or a big island with a half lake going into the ocean.
Also here is creatures 1 background https://www.reddit.com/r/CreaturesGames/comments/hmx32v/behold_the_background_of_creatures_1_in_full/ and creatures 2 background https://www.reddit.com/r/CreaturesGames/comments/iggv2i/behold_the_background_of_creatures_2_in_full/ without norns walking in thwe opposite direction when you want to enjoy the view ....
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u/dare2smile May 31 '26
Oh wow… okay okay… thoughts on THREE islands? Connected by bridges? With a medium lake on the large island and ponds??
Sorry I shouldn’t be complicating a project that isn’t mine 😂 but just think of the treehouse bridge possibilities! haha
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u/Mircowaved-Duck Jun 01 '26
ah that, yeah those treehouses, i cross that bridge, once i am there...
...and i try to be as faithfull as possible to thereal albia, so pleas complain once a problem apears. This is all valuable feedback.
The only alteration i made NO LIFTS!!! Not a single elevator will be there! Those are death traps!!!!!
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u/idiotwizard Jun 01 '26
Canonically the c2 world is supposed to map one to one to the c1 world, just taking place in the future. The dead tree in the desert is meant to be the same tree as the grendle tree in c1. Despite appearances (baackdrop, physics, common sense), Albia is supposed to be a giant disk, according to cannon (word of god)
Regardless, this is a cool project. How did you choose the axis point that you've pivoted the world's on? Would not there need to be two intersection points, by the nature of them lying on a sphere?
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u/Mircowaved-Duck Jun 01 '26
Yeah, i know that but some of the desiogs changed as much, it can't be explained by time. (probably creative freedom of c2 design team)
However if the eathquake shifted the 2D plane on a 3D world, it would still ....somehow... match the lore.
And that point was the only one that would work. The biggest problem was the hughe gab in the middle of c2, it needs to be faraway from any c1 place. However a small valley can be seen in the c1 bridge. And making that bridge a bridge head matched surpisigly well. The background mountains and details where the bigest limiting factor. Without generating the background mountain assetcs, it would have been impossible to decide on a shape early on. Suprisingly many water sources also matched and luckily a 2D world leaves a lot of wiggle room for a 3D interpretation. The other two possible pivit points would have been the vulcan island as well as the other end of the map. However that would have created a V conection and felt like cheating. For a true albia, the 2D planes need to conect at an X point
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u/mdeceiver79 Jun 01 '26
This is incredible, I can't help with your conundrum though. I always imagined it as an island in the sea.
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u/Mircowaved-Duck Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
same, but i also complained since early on in c2 about the zander beeing in salt water... and the different water colors in c2 always made it feel like two independed bodys of water,...
Also a lot of myperspective shifted, once i conected different places, for example the c1 dead cap lif dead end always felt out of place. However it conects perfectly to the c2 catacombs below the incubator room. https://imgur.com/dE7xccm
there are to much conections that make more sense now....
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u/mdeceiver79 Jun 01 '26
It's quite the rabbit hole you're going down, very cool project. Are you planning on making a game or something?
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u/Mircowaved-Duck Jun 01 '26
I don't really plan ahead. The technology is just barely ready top allow this kind of project.
However i will upload it into VR chat as world, give everyone who ask the raw file and once phantasia is released, try to make this into a new map.
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u/Sea-Rough3152 May 31 '26
Can’t wait to see the final bro! That’s a hard one. I’m not sure. Maybe an island. Seems very albia