Create New Map: name, author, size and faction theme form

War for the Overworld · Settings / System

Art style Stylized 3D

War for the Overworld - Create New Map: name, author, size and faction theme form

About this game

Developer: Brightrock Games · Publisher: Brightrock Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

The map editor opens with paperwork, and the form is honest about what a custom map actually is: a name, an author, a description, a player count, a width and height, and a faction theme. The Map Legend on the right is the quiet design move: before you have placed a single tile, it fixes the colour language (terrain grey, Player 1 green, Empire white, neutral violet) that the minimap and the editor will use for the rest of the session, so the form is also the legend you will read by later. Everything is a plain field or dropdown; nothing here pretends map-making starts with art. Frame at about 20s in the Map Editor Tutorial (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

creation-form dropdowns legend-panel side-nav

Components

Parts on screen.

Menu Window List

Screen inventory

  • 'Create New Map' title bar
  • left nav: Create New Map, Load Map, Import Map, Tutorial
  • fields: Map Name (empty), Author (Noontide), Description (empty text area)
  • dropdowns: Player Number (1 Player Scenario), Map Width 56, Map Height 56, Empire Faction Theme (Hero)
  • right 'Map Legend' panel: Terrain Grey, Player 1 Green, Empire White, Neutral Violet
  • bottom buttons: Back, Create New Map
  • version stamp 'WFTO v1.3.0f5' top left

Top 3 colors

#18160d 22%#060602 22%#232113 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Brightrock Games, War for the Overworld screenshot: Steam store movies for app 230190: 'Patch 1.5 & Crucible Trailer', 'My Pet dungeon - Release Trailer', 'War for the Overworld - Map Editor Tutorial' (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Brightrock Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-05. verified 2026-11-05: frame inspected visually at full resolution; all labels, fields, dropdown values and the four legend rows legible; hand cursor rests over the Map Height field; dense-scan frame (1 frame / 2s), scene-change pass yielded 0 frames for this 375s video

No published Brightrock Games / Mythwright video or fan-content policy found (checked 2026-11-05); fair-use study/commentary use, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honored within 48h.

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.

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