Advice/Tutorial for map design?

[AppleTrees]

I’m still pretty new to map creation, but these are the two threads I’ve been referencing as I tinker with it. They’ve been pretty handy.

Map Design and You - A Guide on Map Designing

Map Design and You To preface this post, I would like to say this thread is NOT ABOUT MAKING MAPS LOOK NICE. Please keep that in mind. You can always make an ugly map look better later. It is more difficult to rearrange an already graphically fleshed out map. Section I: Genning To begin I’d like to address a big blunder in map design, which is using FEMapCreator to generate a map. My first piece of advice: don’t do this. Genned maps are awful 100% of the time. Some people like to use it just …

RandomWizard's Enemy Placement Guide

Heyo. My name is RandomWizard, and I’m primarily a map designer in the Fire Emblem modding community. In my experiences playing and creating chapters, I’ve found one highly important area in particular that’s been of varying quality across hacks - enemy placement. Despite the existence of numerous other tutorials for maps, chapters, units, ASM, writing, et cetera, there’s nothing in particular that quite discusses how to make fun and interesting enemy placement. So without further ado, allow m…