A few things to comment here. Let's proceed:
The thread title says 'Overworld in progress', but in fact it's being planned only. May I suggest changing the title to make it clearer?
Originally posted by EgaddErm, did people forget about my story?
Oh, sorry for not commenting about it. To be honest, I liked it, too (I like almost every single story idea as I hardly ever bother on creating one), but I said about ClearYoshi's being chosen by default because of Theonesuperx's post regarding to that. Your idea as it's built now doesn't fit with the default story.
*reads the member list...*
Whoa, co-leader already??? Oh, thanks. ^^
And then, the OW list of maps and submaps: So, forests everywhere? It isn't needed to make every world a forest; it would seem rather uncreative on the player's point of view. But their themes are cool. Personally I had never seen a SMW hack with a beehive-themed world. That's pretty unique!
But still... it's necessary to decide the total amount of levels the hack will have, so we can discuss about how many levels each world will have and it'll make it easier for level/OW designers what kind of theme the level/OW map will have.
Welp... There are still voices echoing in my head whispering about the main story/intro we have for now and how the player will look like, what will be doing and so on.
Originally posted by ClearYoshiBowser sets out on a new adventure to save Princess Peach from the Evil Wicked Mario and to conquer the Evil Spirit, which took over Mario’s consciousness.
By reading this, I suppose the idea for the main character, that is, the player, is that it'll be Bowser. I'm not very fond of that, as drawing a player GFX is really hard and tiresome (unless you get a really talented drawer willing to help you). Being that said, I would suggest upgrading the story a bit, to make the hack possible and easier to work. We could use other character for the player (Daisy, Wario, Waluigi, Toad, Yoshi, something else that's not too difficult to create...), while keeping the storyline intact.
Once I get some more time and ideas for an upgrade, I'll post again.
Ah, don't forget: it'd be good if you created a new thread in 'Works in Progress' subforum, as Egadd mentioned. Or either PM a staff member (preferably yoshicookiezeus) requesting to move this thread to there.
(By the way, while Egadd can write cutscenes, I could program them if he agrees. And I could compose music, I guess. I plan on doing other things, but that's it for now.)
It seems like I'm overtaking the real leader of the project... overpowering myself...