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Sources and inspirations

It's been over a week and I haven't researched more than I did since the last post. Let's just say that my main PC hasn't been doing too good. Work has been draining my energy endlessly so this is going to be short.

I've been watching Daddie Dirk dirk and pretty much every video in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKMrQsxyXTQ&list=PLc7_sQ-Tb6e3siC4Cwu4JfxuqJZkGO6sy And additionally a few of his other videos. I'm going to use Google maps for the general layout for the towns, roads, farms and waters. It's always fascinating going around looking at stuff with no effort. Local stories and events can liven up the map aswell and even make it unique so I might implement a few of those further up the road. Like car meetups/raves in the middle of the forest or custom flags, signs and other items. The motivation to even start with this is because of the map upgrade they'll make in update 42. Basements. That's where the main part of the fun is going to be. Even if my map I'm going to make now won't be compatible with 42 I've been thinking to at least try to understand and get comfortable with the map tools available to me.

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Extra thoughts about the mod name(s)

The name Project Östhammar collides with Google results which makes it harder to find through there. Also if I make connection to the real world in the game people might get the idea to sue me and companies aswell. Laws exists and people like to protect their properties.  The game assets out of the box and other tools are most likely not enough to make everything too accurate when I’m getting to the building part but that doesn’t really matter for people, a place is a place and it’s owned by someone or a corporation. If I ever make buildings of big companies I’ve to make sure to not make any similarities at all of insides since it can get me in real trouble. Real trouble. I got few other ideas for the mod name since it’s just going to refer to the area everything plays out in. Like East Sweden, North East Uppland, East Uppland, Uppland, Sweden, Eastern Svearike, Svearike etc and maybe with the addition of the word Project or Zomboid. Or maybe some easy to remember additions like The Fate of, Forests of Roslagen. I could go on for forever. There are alternative names for the towns such as the old Norse names which might fit in. Gimmu for Gimo and East Hamar for Östhammar and so on. When/if I change the name I have to change the weburl and the blog user name aswell. In the end the naming will be not too important until a first release of the mod will be out. I’ll be thinking about it of course.

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The start of the journey

Someday this week (I hope I can keep up with this promise) I’ll start writing about my ideas and eventuell progress I make in the nearest future. The hardest thing right now is to come up with a fitting name for the Project Zomboid map mod. For now I’ll call it Project Östhammar. I got some other ideas for names aswell but I’ll stay put with Project Östhammar since this will be the most fitting name for months if not years to come. I don’t know if I’ll expand out of the area too much, anyhow I’ll be doing the first tryouts in Östhammars kommun (Östhammar municipilaty) and also more specifically Gimo, in the center of this municipilaty. I love water in games and the extensive archipelago by the coast of Östhammars kommun will be a very exciting thing to deal with in the future. I’ve already done a bit of research and plan to dish out in the coming days what, how and where I’ll get my sources and inspirations.