The Shining Nexus

Another week, another update to my journey with mapping the Shining games. This session went a lot smoother and I was enjoying myself greatly as I listened to some great podcasts. For those wondering, the podcasts I listened to were  Axe of the Blood God , which is about RPGs, and  Retronauts , which is about retro video games. Unfortunately, I was not able to work on this project very long, but I do plan to work on this throughout the week so I could make more significant progress. Goal right now is to finish Shining in the Darkness  in about 3 months and move on to Shining Force . This might be wishful thinking, but we'll see. I've also been thinking about how to layout all the maps. One version would be to create individual maps to view separately and the other version would bunch them up together to create a poster. Regardless, the goal here is to create a digital version of my maps so that people can print them out to use as they play the game. I'll probably end up

Unfortunately for this session, I was not able to make progress into the next trial. Here's why... Ay caramba! So as I was mapping out the new area past the false wall on the first floor, I noticed the path in the upper right corner was going to travel along side another path. This triggered an "uh oh" in my mind because I knew I messed up the space count somewhere. I traced back to my recent drawings, but found no issue with it. I decided to consult a guide and found two problems I found on my map... Those two red circles indicate a miscount in space and caused the map to extend one space to the left and right. Doh. Sadly, trying to fix this mistake would essentially make me re-do 90% of the map, so I decided to start this floor from scratch with a new fresh coat of paint. Behold, my new monstrosity! It's alive! So yes, I re-drew Level 1 with updated icons and fixed the spacing. All is well now. I do plan to create a separate notation sheet and