TakeOut, SedgeMonkey, and yours truly have been discussing putting together our own IsoCity/PixelDam/Mr. Wong's Soup Apartments. Of course, all that stuff has been done before but I propose a new way to do it... from the inside view.

I call it "The Joint"

proposed signage:
proposed link button:

Somebody had said we should have a larger size of room than the one below but, to ensure the apartments link properly and easily together, I decided that this should suffice for now. Later on, we could have luxury suites for those that want one. Start small as I always say.

Latest template:

Later on, as the project grows, we could have various types of rooms such as

- One bedrooms
- Two bedrooms
- Luxury Suites
- Rec areas (Community swimming pool, billiards, darts, etc. Community apartment bar??)

A seperate space with a link from the main site will be created : www.pixeljoint.com/thejoint 

All in all, this looks like it's a go just wanna hear from you guys about what you think and who's on board with us as well as ideas and suggestions to make this successful.

When the site space is up and runnning, there will be a download section to download the template in .psd and .psp formats. For now, I am assuming everyone's cool with my current template sooooo... start cracking kids!

Great work so far pixelblink.  Your banner is freaking sweeet. The only thing that seems off is the way the rooms are not connected in any way.  It's kind of like a bunch of interiors of mini houses right now.  It's not that big a deal, but it'd be nice to see the rooms connect in some way.

I have jury duty and I'm still behind from my vacation so I'm going to be busy playing catch up at work the next couple of days. It might be a few days before I get a chance to post again. Keep going strong fellas.  I love this project!!!

Everything is connected from the hallways dude (the tiled areas that look like corriders). There are doors you can attach to your walls wherever you feel like as well.

Hmmm... I like the wall style zi- uses in his stuff. It's just a tad bit thicker.  More weighty.

http://www.pixeljoint.com/pixels/profile.asp?id=427

Also, it would be nice to have some variety of room sizes and the way the rooms connect is still an issue.

Each floor would have this floor plan with an elevator in the foyer... if someone would like to make an elevator for this, that'd be wicked awesome! Maybe just a room itself that has the outside view of an elevator, mailboxes (on the main floor), etc?

i like those floors dude. I got some wicked floor tiles that I'm saving for when I make my apartment.

As you can see in the new version of the template I did, the walls are indeed now thicker. I also made the walls kind of wrap around the corner to see where the invisible wall would be.. also, I made new thicker doors that would be where those walls are too.

As for on the inside, everything is customizable... paint your walls, put new carpet/flooring in, put the doors wherever you want to put em.

I think, also, that if you want a larger space to work with, you can always reserve a few aparments and work out the space measurements... as long as it fits in properly I don't really mind. I'm also working on an exterior view of the hostel/building which will be a guide of tenants for each floor.

that sounds good dude. Also, the reason the rooms aren't connected to each other by walls is the fact that they'd overlap and we'd lose some space to show what's inside the rooms. Unless, you have an idea to fix that.. gimme a visual if you do.

I'm gonna try and give you a visual of the site layout I'd want as well... I'll try n do it tonight quickly

Sorry dude, totally passed this post without seeing it for some reason.

As you can see, I made the walls thicker. Also, larger rooms can be available for those with the skills to do them properly. Limited colours? Naw... I hate that rule myself. Why should I count my colours and limit my creative skills? If it's not like 1000 colours and it is true pixelart, it's cool with me.

As for your other suggestions, I'd love to see them presented visually so I can understand your vision.

I think don't need larger room ... need only space as example: "you must use space between "this" and "this" and than everybody can choose his version with different version of outlines ... else if I want to make circle room or rhomb what ?   ... then sprout question how or what connection between rooms is need ...

I promise to think about this ... else for me I take decision to make it in flash and have outlines of all rooms and when you put the mouse on them then room will be "loading" in this case don't need everybody to load all rooms ... I think if you see pixelmoon than you must stay and wait much time to see all projects ... and this isn't good ...

it isn't important to start soon ... important is to start with deliberation !!!

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:) GDGB :)

The doors aren't low... you just have the guy standing on top or the door... if the door was ope he'd be underneath the frame and it'd look normal.

There are doors in front only if people choose to have them that way. I'm not gonna set that restriction.. it's up to them. Personally, I won't use them.

Your aparment is great! I wish we could put them together so they connect and you could still see all the detail but, it doesn't work like that unless it is made so you can put the mouse over a room to show it. I don't know what else to say about this... I'm just waking up

You can call me by my real name if you want as well.. Steve (or even Steve-O)

I'm glad this has gotten such a large following.. though I'd like to see some more input from everyone

We could do an overview similar to zi's where when you mouseover or click it loads a detail view of the room on the side. 

Or we could do it so the rooms actually do overlap and your view is partially obstructed, but when you click on the room it brings the room to the front so you can see it clearly. That way you can do interesting floorplans and different sized rooms and not have to worry about other pieces obstructing the view.

yestarday I think about this idea for ISO rooms

and this is just another vision of me

now here you can pick space as much as you want /we can limit this space that much of .../ but this is only in one direction ... in other direction you must use area with or without space. With "room area" is at least space, but with "balcony area" is large. In this case you can make appartment with some rooms as toilet or 2 space as fitness hall or magazine or ...

more explanation: in area "without floor" can build all in air as vegetation, antenna or birds or ladders ... :)

for end so then we have many rooms or apartments with different style and always can put together in one floor ...

we can make many floors and every week have suggestion for favourite floor :)

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If you wait then soon I show about my idea to put in Flash ... then you need only one main movie with outlines and buttons big as areas  ... all room will be put in private movies and loading when anybody want :)

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:) GDGB :)