Complete the creation of a 1000 x 1000 Medieval Magic Unity World
Budget: $750 – $1,500 USD
The Magic Forest is the 5th world built. It has not been incorporated into the game yet. It is the first attempt at a decent size world with spectacular views. The size is 1000px x 1000px with a height of 150px. It needs to be made more realistic with a lot more detail. It needs waypoint navigation applied to the trails. Also, please add more animated chickens, ducks, dogs, and/or ground fowl in the village. Put an awesome castle in one of the corners and the village far from it. This is the look I’m thinking about for the castle. The URP probably doesn’t look this good but, good enough. I’m thinking about:
https://youtu.be/zrEPm6JAPbs?si=V_O2XT6tXr_RcSBk
This includes a village, market, castle with interiors and dock assets. You can place it wherever you want. I want you to build on your contest entry.
Build a Wizard’s Tower in the lake with a bridge that goes to the castle or some other part of the land. Hikers can only hike out to and around the outside of the tower not inside. Create a nice dragon that appears on top of or above a tower in the lake and flies around the entire world. There is a nice free Dragon PBR in the Unity store. The green line on the 2nd graphic below is the dragons flight. Please give the Dragon at least 2 different trips so that the circuit is not always the same. Also create a random trigger that waits 2-10 minutes between dragon appearances. The dragon appears from and goes back to a magical effect above the wizards tower in the lake. You might be able to use a tower from the castle package.
Here are some additional ideas. I would like a secret entrance to the castle, like an Easter egg, that gets you access to the top of the wall and other tower parts. The hikers will normally go in the front gate and walk around some of the large rooms and stuff, but never get up to the top of the wall. The secret trails are called hidden trails. They are not obvious like normal trails. I try to get 1-3 hidden trails in every world. The hidden trails do not appear on the hikers map. I would like the dragon to buzz, or get real close to, a stretch of the top wall. I would also like the dragon to occasionally buzz a segment of one of the mountainside trails. Finally, I would like the dragon to occasionally circle the corn maze like he is looking for a tasty hiker to eat. These sort of things will motivate the hiker to keep coming back to find hidden trails and also try to be up on the trail the moment the dragon comes by
There should be a large cornfield or wheat field that is like a maze. Put farming stuff at some of the maze intersections to help finding the maze solution. A windmill or other building could be out in the middle. The clever hiker can go up the stairs and spot a way out of the maze.
You’ve already created the mountain part. You don’t need to remove it or change it beyond the recommendations I’ve suggested. I would like one witches cottage. It looks nice but, if you go up the path to it, something sinister happens. A black mist envelopes it or something not too intense…no monsters or fire. The hiker has to turn around to move on.
Somewhere on the coast make a swamp that is so dark torches have been setup. The swamp trails (part wood, logs, planks and part dry land) take you to a part of the lake with a dock. There is a noisy party going on in Ye Olde Tavern on the dock. A small boat or 2 are tied up to the dock. A small rowboat with 2 people in it, makes a continuous slow loop around the lake. Make the dock so you can go out on it one way and come back the other (I don’t like dead ends).
Make sure all the areas I have described appear somewhere in the world. You can put them where you want. I’ve included the original maps but you don’t have to follow them. You can fill any leftover eal estate with whatever you want that isn’t to scary and follows the Medieval Magic theme.
With the exception of the Dragon, please add normal animals in their normal environment. They should be distant from the trail but, visible by the observant hiker. No deadly snakes, alligators or monsters. An illusive Unicorn in the forest would be nice. All animals should be at least a little animated (no statues) What they do and how far they travel is up to you. Don’t use any animation that isn’t realistic. Animals should sometimes have realistic proximity sounds. Make sure it isn’t an obvious repeating loop or cut off at the beginning or end. Have ambient sound for all areas even if its just a gentle breeze. There is no such thing as total silence.
Make sure all trail intersections are at least 20 meters apart to accommodate easy navigation. Make the trails obvious except for a few hidden trails we won’t put on the users map. The hikers don’t have the ability to look left and right just straight ahead. So make sure the trails weave, curve, rise, and dip in a way that the hikers get to see all the best views.
Make sure to optimize everything so that all this will run on a Samsung S22 and an iPhone 13.
The quality of castle I would like
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/historic/medieval-castle-urp-308772
Not quite the quality castle I want but maybe this one can be dressed up https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/polystyle-medieval-castle-182165#reviews
This has a URP version and is on sale for $19
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/modular-castle-dungeon-medieval-castle-castles-dungeons-dungeon--271318
https://youtu.be/zrEPm6JAPbs?si=V_O2XT6tXr_RcSBk
This includes a village, market, castle with interiors and dock assets. You can place it wherever you want. I want you to build on your contest entry.
Build a Wizard’s Tower in the lake with a bridge that goes to the castle or some other part of the land. Hikers can only hike out to and around the outside of the tower not inside. Create a nice dragon that appears on top of or above a tower in the lake and flies around the entire world. There is a nice free Dragon PBR in the Unity store. The green line on the 2nd graphic below is the dragons flight. Please give the Dragon at least 2 different trips so that the circuit is not always the same. Also create a random trigger that waits 2-10 minutes between dragon appearances. The dragon appears from and goes back to a magical effect above the wizards tower in the lake. You might be able to use a tower from the castle package.
Here are some additional ideas. I would like a secret entrance to the castle, like an Easter egg, that gets you access to the top of the wall and other tower parts. The hikers will normally go in the front gate and walk around some of the large rooms and stuff, but never get up to the top of the wall. The secret trails are called hidden trails. They are not obvious like normal trails. I try to get 1-3 hidden trails in every world. The hidden trails do not appear on the hikers map. I would like the dragon to buzz, or get real close to, a stretch of the top wall. I would also like the dragon to occasionally buzz a segment of one of the mountainside trails. Finally, I would like the dragon to occasionally circle the corn maze like he is looking for a tasty hiker to eat. These sort of things will motivate the hiker to keep coming back to find hidden trails and also try to be up on the trail the moment the dragon comes by
There should be a large cornfield or wheat field that is like a maze. Put farming stuff at some of the maze intersections to help finding the maze solution. A windmill or other building could be out in the middle. The clever hiker can go up the stairs and spot a way out of the maze.
You’ve already created the mountain part. You don’t need to remove it or change it beyond the recommendations I’ve suggested. I would like one witches cottage. It looks nice but, if you go up the path to it, something sinister happens. A black mist envelopes it or something not too intense…no monsters or fire. The hiker has to turn around to move on.
Somewhere on the coast make a swamp that is so dark torches have been setup. The swamp trails (part wood, logs, planks and part dry land) take you to a part of the lake with a dock. There is a noisy party going on in Ye Olde Tavern on the dock. A small boat or 2 are tied up to the dock. A small rowboat with 2 people in it, makes a continuous slow loop around the lake. Make the dock so you can go out on it one way and come back the other (I don’t like dead ends).
Make sure all the areas I have described appear somewhere in the world. You can put them where you want. I’ve included the original maps but you don’t have to follow them. You can fill any leftover eal estate with whatever you want that isn’t to scary and follows the Medieval Magic theme.
With the exception of the Dragon, please add normal animals in their normal environment. They should be distant from the trail but, visible by the observant hiker. No deadly snakes, alligators or monsters. An illusive Unicorn in the forest would be nice. All animals should be at least a little animated (no statues) What they do and how far they travel is up to you. Don’t use any animation that isn’t realistic. Animals should sometimes have realistic proximity sounds. Make sure it isn’t an obvious repeating loop or cut off at the beginning or end. Have ambient sound for all areas even if its just a gentle breeze. There is no such thing as total silence.
Make sure all trail intersections are at least 20 meters apart to accommodate easy navigation. Make the trails obvious except for a few hidden trails we won’t put on the users map. The hikers don’t have the ability to look left and right just straight ahead. So make sure the trails weave, curve, rise, and dip in a way that the hikers get to see all the best views.
Make sure to optimize everything so that all this will run on a Samsung S22 and an iPhone 13.
The quality of castle I would like
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/historic/medieval-castle-urp-308772
Not quite the quality castle I want but maybe this one can be dressed up https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/polystyle-medieval-castle-182165#reviews
This has a URP version and is on sale for $19
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/environments/fantasy/modular-castle-dungeon-medieval-castle-castles-dungeons-dungeon--271318