63 rooms is a lot to design puzzles in. Especially if they were going to be interesting or difficult. Designing a puzzle has got to take me 5 times as long as transfering 1,216 pixels to a room.
Incidentally, the hold is editable by anyone, so if anybody feels like creating a populated dungeon out of it, I wouldn't object in the least. In fact, I encourage it.
The difference between doing this and attaching a monochrome bitmap to my post is this: If I copied pixel by pixel one bitmap into another bitmap, and then posted it here, I'd either be a liar or an imbecile or both. As masonjason said, you get that "
Wow"
factor, you really don't expect to see what you see in the editor. Perhaps I should've done it more secretly, but again, I didn't want to make 63 puzzles, and if I didn't actually populate "
My New Hold,"
some people would get upset because they were looking forward to my dungeon.
As far as the patience it took to do this... it was bearable, honest. I always had music on, I didn't spend more than an hour and a half each time I worked on it (save for last night, which I completed the bottom two rows, all in one sitting, no idea how long it took). And, well, depending on what, I enjoy doing what some people might find overly tedious.
And yeah, maybe I was a little bored. I'm only working one day a week at my new job at PetCo, my girlfriends parents don't let her out past 8 during the week, 10 on weekends, my other friends are usually busy, and I can only play DRODTris so many times in one night.
