Hello,
I've been thinking a lot about my art site. I've been planning and replanning since about august. but, i've finally come up with a GREAT idea.
ok, the splash page will have a fantasy realistic painting, probably a guy on the deck of an airship
the splash page will also contain the updates and such.
now, the tough part
i want the main page to be like the old style RPGs. Like FF6 and Chrono Trigger.
it'll be a lot like the overworld map of FF6, with a character like Chrono Triggers.
Now, when you enter a city or town, instead of opening a new map or whatnot, it'd open the HTML file. For instance, when you enter Artia, it opens up my art gallery. When you enter The Ruins, it opens up my Old Art Gallery and Crappy Pictures Gallery. I guess you get the idea.
The only problem is, i don't know if i could fit all this into one big ol' map, how hard it would be to make the sprites, make the airship (so you can travel to different continents, of course), and keep it all at a decent file size.

I was thinking of making it like chrono cross. you have one semi-large map, which would be the overworld and you travel by boat. When you go to the island you want to land on and you press enter, it'd open a new map that shows just that island and you land at a selected spot. So instead of one large map, you'd have a semi large one and a bunch (well, 3 or 4) of zoomed in ones.

does anyone think this would be creatable? I think this idea would be great... it'd make a great sense of nostalgia... with the CTish sprites, the FF6ish map, FF7 elements on the map, CT/CC elements on the map, a Zelda reference on the map (Mount Patton... kinda like Death Mountain!), and FF6 or Chrono Cross music as the overworld theme... i think a lot of fellow rpgers and artists would appreciate it.
the only problem is, is it even possible?! Could i keep it at a decent file size? How hard would it be (especially the sprites looping and moving, the airship, obstructions,...etc.)?!
Thanks a lot in advance. :-)

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