Yep, HAPPY APRIL FOOLS' DAY!
Thanks, guys, for your comments and the like.
Maybe I'll maintain interest in this by writing up a "Making Of Metroid Dread" thing which I could post in a few days, which will shed light on a few things, like the rundown of the process and maybe mentioning some of the things I really wanted to include. I'll have to be sure to avoid being too lamentative (?) about nitpicky things that you wouldn't have noticed for fear of downplaying the effort, though. I think I'll include some reduced-size animated .GIFs showing the creation of an area from start to finish - good thing I kept a lot of intermediary images.
I estimated 250-300 hours went into this over the last four months, nearly every day since the beginning of December. So I am burnt out, but I should write about this undertaking before I forget it all in the midst of catching up on all the other stuff I meant to do during the past few months.
![Tongue :P](https://www.vgmaps.com/forums/Smileys/default/tongue.gif)
So be on the look out for that.
And thanks again!
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(I never did find the yearly "April Fool's Day on the web" listing on Wikipedia...you know, the one I wanted to get on but last year couldn't because VGMaps.com didn't have an article at the time? And now that it does have an article, I can't find the listing for this year or any year, for that matter? Maybe they stopped doing them because they were a pain to maintain or something...
And then there's GoNintendo, who I wanted a mention on. Last I checked yesterday, nothing. I can't see GoNintendo at work this morning but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't bother. Apparently for the second year in a row they give a multi-hundred-hour effort the cold shoulder. Considering that every tiny thing they consider "news", like boxart for games no one cares about, and they do feature other fan creations that take a lot less work, it's quite the cold shoulder if they never mention it. Though I will surely retract that statement if they had in fact mentioned it, as I said, I can't access GoNintendo at the moment since I'm at work...
Seriously, what does it take to get a mention? Good thing I'm not doing this JUST for Wikipedia or GoNintendo, but it is a bit of a buzzkill if no one else thinks it's worth mentioning. But here I go again...*sigh*)
Well, enjoy the maps.
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