Share your on-grid-paper-drawn town map!

[jokimori]

hiya everyone,

my dairy/planner for 2014 has grid paper pages next to my weekly schedule
and what do i use it for...
calculating my monthly expenses? no!!!!! animal crossing nl!!!! obviously!
i wanted to control where my villagers would move in (like everybody else)
and i've planned out where to put pwps by drawing parts of my town on this grid paper.
by now, i've drawn my whole town, but i'm still making new maps since my town is still a work in progress.

i'm sure i'm not the only one who obsessively draws their town on grid paper!
it can't be! i refuse to believe it!
so... i'd love to see yours, please share them with me if you have made one/some/a lot!

2 of my maps:

Spoiler: this map was more for planning, the same area is on there twice

Spoiler: this map is just to look pretty, and also so i have an overview of what i've done so far(not yet finished)

(as you can see, i'm quite new to this forum (not new to ac though!),
so if there's already a thread like this, could you please tell me?)​

 

[Toeto]

Wow all this for a game :'p

Nicely done though!

 

[Yui Z]

Ooo good job! I never thought to plan mine out on paper... but then I guess I'd rather go with the flow xD

 

[Sholee]

too... much... work...

But yours is beautiful... did you count your town tile by tile??

 

[milkysugar]

Aw man I love this idea; I need to get myself some graph paper!
Oooor create a grid in photoshop since I prefer to work with digital media eheh.
Totally gonna use this to plan out the pathways/etc for my new alt town ≧(?▽｀)≦

 

[jokimori]

Wow all this for a game :'p

Nicely done though!

i find it nice to play the game outside of the screen hehe, better for my eyes
thank you :^)

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Ooo good job! I never thought to plan mine out on paper... but then I guess I'd rather go with the flow xD

thank you, i do a lot of direct in-game landscaping too, but sometimes it's handy to have a clearer overview ;^)

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too... much... work...

But yours is beautiful... did you count your town tile by tile??

less work than plot resetting haha!
yep, it's not that hard though
thank you!

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Aw man I love this idea; I need to get myself some graph paper!
Oooor create a grid in photoshop since I prefer to work with digital media eheh.
Totally gonna use this to plan out the pathways/etc for my new alt town ≧(?▽｀)≦

if you make a digital file it'd be easier to up date it and have a total overview, i was thinking about that too! if you make one, would you mind sharing? i'm very curious!

 

[Sholee]

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less work than plot resetting haha!
yep, it's not that hard though
thank you!

VERY true ahahahha maybe i'll make a drawn grid of my town as well. It'll probably make it easier to decide where to place PWPs if i have an overview look of my town thats tile by tile.

 

[jokimori]

VERY true ahahahha maybe i'll make a drawn grid of my town as well. It'll probably make it easier to decide where to place PWPs if i have an overview look of my town thats tile by tile.

haha, i can tell from your town map you speak from experience c:
when you have one please share :^)) very curious

 

[Rika092]

Look at how pretty they are!!! and all these details...WOW!
Are you by any chance an architecture student? lol

 

[milkysugar]

if you make a digital file it'd be easier to up date it and have a total overview, i was thinking about that too! if you make one, would you mind sharing? i'm very curious!

Absolutely! I'll be happy to share when/if I come up with a decent grid template :3
Might not be till sometime this weekend as I'm drowning in finals week prep ahah, but I definitely want to make one when I get some free time.

 

[marzipanmermaid]

I literally went to my school bookstore just now so I could get a grid paper journal after seeing this. A friend said I should draw it out and seeing your maps convinced me to go for it. Not sure how to go about actually counting tiles in my town though.

 

[jokimori]

Look at how pretty they are!!! and all these details...WOW!
Are you by any chance an architecture student? lol

aw thank you! such a nice compliment hehe
haha no, i'm a graphic design student, but that was pretty close! ;^)

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Absolutely! I'll be happy to share when/if I come up with a decent grid template :3
Might not be till sometime this weekend as I'm drowning in finals week prep ahah, but I definitely want to make one when I get some free time.

take your time! sometimes i miss a tile and everything gets messed up so don't rush it!

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I literally went to my school bookstore just now so I could get a grid paper journal after seeing this. A friend said I should draw it out and seeing your maps convinced me to go for it. Not sure how to go about actually counting tiles in my town though.

:^D so nice!!! counting tiles is not that difficult... buildings and pwps have a set size, i count the distance between those and use them as anker points as well. just take your time and don't rush it is my advice :^) you'll see in the end it will go faster than you expected.

 

[jokimori]

update! :^))

Spoiler: map

 

[Sholee]

omg jokimori... i blame you for my lack of sleep last night. I spent 2 hours trying to count out how many tiles my town consisted of by placing patterns on the borders of my town. ahahahha i'm STILL not done counting, will have to work on it later.

 

[jokimori]

omg jokimori... i blame you for my lack of sleep last night. I spent 2 hours trying to count out how many tiles my town consisted of by placing patterns on the borders of my town. ahahahha i'm STILL not done counting, will have to work on it later.

oh no :^O haha i'm sorry? i don't do that though, counting everything first! but anyway if you think that's what you need to do in order to make a great map i won't stop you hehehe

 

[LinDUNguin]

I did this in CF when I softmodded my Wii so I could do it digitally. This time I just kinda winged it :/

 

[Sholee]

oh no :^O haha i'm sorry? i don't do that though, counting everything first! but anyway if you think that's what you need to do in order to make a great map i won't stop you hehehe

lols i know i didn't have to count all the tiles but seeing it tile by tile, makes it easier to see which pwp will fit and wont fit.

 

[CinnamonCrab]

Oh wow, that's really funny. I'm a graphic design student too and I did the exact same thing, only with pixels!! Hahaha
I think you've inspired me to take it to paper though

 

[jokimori]

I did this in CF when I softmodded my Wii so I could do it digitally. This time I just kinda winged it :/

for new leaf it's more useful though, in cf there's not much to plan

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Oh wow, that's really funny. I'm a graphic design student too and I did the exact same thing, only with pixels!! Hahaha
I think you've inspired me to take it to paper though

cool! i love working digitally too, but drawing on paper feels more relaxing for me
i love your avatar!

 

[Vox]

Oh, man. This is so tempting. I really work so much better with plans like this if I can map things out.