I hate this feeling of like I have a good idea in my head how I want a location to feel, but I just can't get it out.
Like it's bad enough when you have a picture in your head that you're struggling to draw, but because this is game dev there's extra steps to this struggle - I have to make the tileset and then construct the landscape and if my brain isn't happy with the first part it can be hard to even get to the second.
I've considered sketching out the map itself (tile outlines and all) on a gridded picture file but then it'd be like... I dunno... would I go find a sprite artist to commission maybe...
EDIT: okay cohost absolute has some weird image compression going on compared to when I posted this into Discord