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I can relate to this as well. I remember my brother writing in his KQ Companion (the One that covered games 1-4) a very small map for KQ4 (a couple of blocks) to know where the chasm was in the troll cave.
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Those maps on graph paper were awesome... Such great memories. I used to do maps for all the sierra games... same, pretty much as found in the KQ Companion book - one box, with lines connecting to other boxes, for where you could go - and a brief note for each box...
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I also remember my brother also drawing up a map for Kq1AGI on a standard piece of paper drawing his own boxes and then it was taped to a piece of cardboard.
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I usually didn't need to make maps, but one that I had to was for the catacombs in KQ6.
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Some maps are soldered in my mind now where I don't need to draw them anymore, like the Spielburg and Mordavian woods. But some others, such as the desert in KQ5 and QfG2, are harder to memorize. Especially when there's a dehydration threat!
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The only maze map soldered in my mind is for the KQ6 catacombs. Whenever I replay one of the earlier KQ games, I always make a new map just for the playing area alone, otherwise I tend to run circles around the place I'm looking for.
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I don't draw maps for the older games anymore (for Sierra), because most of it is now memorized. But originally, the map would be a square, with lines connecting to other load screen areas, with notes like "golden egg in nest - how do I get it?" and such. So that when I got an inventory item, that might be useful - I'd look at the map and see where it might be used.

Good times, those days.
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Datadog wrote:The only maze map soldered in my mind is for the KQ6 catacombs. Whenever I replay one of the earlier KQ games, I always make a new map just for the playing area alone, otherwise I tend to run circles around the place I'm looking for.
Forgot about that one! The second floor isn't too hard to remember, but the bottom floor I need a map.
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Keeping going west until you reach the 2nd south, go south until you see an east, go east and solve the puzzle, retrace steps back to first room, go south to the second west, go west to the first north, go north until you find tapestry.

Okay, maybe I don't have so much a map in my mind as I do Canadian directions.
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