Noble’s Land is a 2D Sandbox MMORPG (Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game). Live in a world of consequences. Loot or be looted with always-on PVP. Explore the world by foot, horse, train, or boat. Buy a house in a city or build your own in the wilderness. Plant, tend, and harvest fields of crops. Cook food to support local taverns,or to supply players setting out for adventure. Travel the world in search of rare fish. Grow your guild from a few friends into an army with their own castle. In Noble’s Land the players run the world.

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One of the latest features to make its way into Noble’s Land is the Minimap. In order to get the minimap in action I had to make some changes to how the minimap is generated. Each World Chunk and Custom Chunk has its’ own thumbnail that is used to draw a zoomed out view. Up until now to generate these thumbnails I was taking a 32 x 32 tile, down-scaling it to a 2 x 2 tile, then drawing the 16 x 16 Chunk to produce a 32 x 32 thumbnail. A big part of Noble’s Land’s style is having the black show through each tile, giving it that very old pixel look. When down-scaling the tiles there was no picking which tiles would be used, resulting in a lot of black space. I wanted something with more detail, so now you manually assign four corner colors to each tile.

By using the four corner colors there is no black space in the thumbnails, giving more detail in what you can see. The animation above shows the original down-scaling version and the new four corner color version and you can see how much more detail comes from the new style. In the fields you can see the flowers showing through, the island’s borders are much more prominent, and the tree mapping is much more accurate. The best part is that it now mimics each tile’s color more accurately, by having single black pixels mixed into the old version it ends up looking much darker then it really is.