68 - A Year In Review
Welcome back!
I'm gearing up for a new season of CJ entries but it's still going to take me a few months until I'm ready to release on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. By this time last year I'd already managed to release around 13 entries despite having numerous computer "meltdowns" after installing NAM 32 and eventually switching to a newer computer. I guess I was eager to move up a couple points on Ben's yearly Top 100 after being stuck at #6 for two years in a row.
Last year I experimented a lot with marinas. This was mainly due to the fact that a lot of the tiles I was working on were by the water. I was also inspired by a lot of paeng and OlScare / Benoit's work.
Technically my first entry of 2014 was The University That Never Was but since I scrapped that tile and it wasn't specifically made for the 2014 season I'm not including it in this review.
Anyway, until I can get my act together for 2015 I present you a small review of all the tiles I created in 2014 and a few previews of things to come.
Enjoy!
Tile Name: Venus
Size: Small
Seen In: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (12/21/2013), Marina Fun pt.1 (01/26/2014)
Tile Name: Aren
Size: Small
Seen In: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (12/21/2013), Marina Fun pt.2 (02/02/2014)
Tile Name: Eon
Size: Small
Seen In: Marina Fun pt.3 (02/12/2014)
Name: Walden II
Size: Medium
Seen In: Chinatown (02/24/2014), Chinatown Mosaics (03/18/2014)
Tile Name: Sierra
Size: Small
Seen In: Believe In Magic (03/03/2014), Summoning (03/11/2014), Sierra Mosaics (03/25/2014)
Tile Name: Archon
Size: Small
Seen In: Come Tomorrow (05/06/2014), Selected Scenes (05/11/2014), Archon (05/17/2014)
Tile Name: Huang Yaoshi (Peach Blossom Bay)
Size: Medium
Seen In: Selected Scenes (05/11/2014), Wild for the Night (05/25/2015), Before/After (06/02/2014), Random One (06/11/2014) Peach Blossom Bay Mosaics (06/21/2014), One Magical Night (12/24/2014)
Tile Name: Baron
Size: Small
Seen In: Random One (06/11/2014)
Tile Name: Seaview
Size: Small
Seen In: Seaview (11/16/2014)
Tile Name: Illium (4.0)
Size - Medium
Seen In: Illium Revisited (11/26/2014), One Magical Night (12/24/2014)
Tile Name: Emerald
Size: Medium
Seen In: Hanging Gardens of Ionica (12/06/2014), One Magical Night (12/24/2014)
Here is a gif that compares what my region looked like in January 2014 with May 2015. A lot of small changes have been made in the past year but the most glaring change is Avalon (the center tile). Due to certain problems I decided to restart Avalon from scratch. It's going to take a while to finish because I'm carefully selecting BATs as well as creating a few custom lots, but it's for the best.
The tile below is a reboot of Zoolander. I decided to have a do-over because the roads changed when I remade Illium and I figured Zoolander should conform. This also led me to rebuild the tile to the right of Zoolander, Acropolis.
Zoolander is actually full grown now and is around 98% complete. I just need to make a few changes to some buildings before it is ready to present.
This is an industrial seaport I'm working on. It still needs a lot of work; I can already see a few things that need to be improved in this pic, and I'm having a lot of trouble with those ATEX tubes (they don't really connect the way I want them to).
Here is something more at the finished product stage. I just need to find the time to create some CJ entries but it's going to be hard to do that this month since my free time is probably going to be dedicated to playing Witcher 3 as well as a wedding (not mine) and a bunch of birthdays in June.
Comments, suggestions, and questions are always appreciated. Thanks for visiting.
I'll probably make my comeback around mid-July, I hope. See you then!
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