Park / Dolphin Bay Resort

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  • geewhzz%s's Photo

    Dolphin Bay Resort Logo


    During NE's Head-2-Head 5 competition, several new stars emerged as the new faces of parkmaking. Among the brightest was Liampie, who, as a member of the 3rd place Flying Germans, rose to new prominence under a new style. Back when he joined in May 2007, he possessed the classic “Dutch” style of parkmaking. Since then, however, he transcended this, and emerged in H2H in a strong way with Calypso Quay, a week 2 park built with RRP. Although he also captured a Silver accolade with Wunderland Erlach, this newest release could be considered his solo introduction under his new style. Because of this, NE has yet another wonderful release, a Gold one to be exact, Dolphin Bay Resort. Read On...

  • Louis!%s's Photo
    Congrats Liampie. I didn't really think it was as amazing as some of the panelists did:

    I wasn't astounded by this at all. I didn't really like it all that much. Sure the little details were nice but the overall picture was lacking for me.

    I would have put this as more of a high silver, so the 13 region.


    But it was a strong release. As said the surrounding details were great, like the volleyball players and the little boat and the dolphins but the hotel itself wasn't on the same level.

    Well done on achieving gold though.

    Oh and fr3ak <3 the logo :)
  • SSSammy%s's Photo
    ahhh i just love all the little things here
    completely fantastic.
    reminded of RRP.
    gorsh. fantastic.
  • robbie92%s's Photo
    I really liked this, as the write-up would suggest. My one gripe, beyond the archy itself being a little underdetailed, is the award for this, and I had the same problem with AT&T Stadium. I feel, for a Gold, there should be a little more substance, considering it's basically the equivalent of a Blockbuster. However, what was there was extremely nice, especially in the details. Hopefully we'll see a large park from you soon enough!
  • Luketh%s's Photo
    Holy crap...very nice resort, Liampie.

    I love the volleyball players, that's amazing!
  • Splitvision%s's Photo
    For me this just squeezes in above the gold threshold. I've been to an all-inclusive resort in Alanya, and I really could relate this. We didn't have as much stuff inside the hotel grounds but I can imagine many hotels have more. I think everything was executed very nicely, from the dolphins to the mini-golf course. As for the hotel, I really liked it. First and foremost, it was more irregular than the average RCT hotel, which I really appreciated. The entrance were elegant, and not too over the top, neither too small/unremarkable. The simplicity worked very well I thought and overall I can just imagine a hotel looking like this in real life very easily. Only thing I'm missing is some more elevation, even though it's realistic that they just make it all flat. It could have added a little extra atmosphere to it all. Other than that, superb effort, a lot of great ideas and as Robbie said, finish something large!
  • J K%s's Photo
    I love this Liampie. Your my favourite Non-pm as you know and this only enforces my opinion. The volleyball players and the archy was fantastic and the dolphins created a really nice outlook for the resort.

    The waves were nice and the little details were just as good.

    Love the logo Fr3ak! The symetry of the dolphins and gradient on the sun are really professional. Our graphics team is really strong and this just adds to NE's great artwork.
  • Liampie%s's Photo
    Awesome! When I look at the 'Gold'-list, there's my name next to RCTNW, Evil WME, Ozone, 5Dave, Cedarpoint6, egg_head and many other big names. It feels great.

    However, I'm surprised to see this up already. I think something went wrong in the communication somewhere, Fr3ak sent me this logo and asked for feedback. I gave him some and expected him te return with a new version. That's why there's no logo in the readme, it just says [LOGO]. It's not a big deal and I'm not mad at anyone, I'm just surprised and it's a pity that the logo isn't exactly what I had in mind for this concept. The logo is pretty but I imagined it more luxurious. Fr3ak, don't misunderstand me! I owe you something, not the other way around. Thanks for putting time into this anyway! :)



    @ Louis: Thanks! I agree with the part that the hotel isn't on the same level, but redoing it would be a waste of time. I want to finish Project X and move on. I can't believe Project X is getting anywhere, with 2/4 project released and the other two being both over 80% although I haven't worked on them in weeks. :p

    @ SSSammy: Thanks! I never did it on purpose but I think RRP had a great influence on me. His work during H2H blew me away and still does.

    @ Robbie: You did the writeup? Thanks, I really like it! I see why you think the architecture was underdetailed. During the contruction I felt myself too that I was pushing the boundaries in the 'wrong' direction if you know what I mean. I'm happy with the results though. With the Gold/Blockbuster talk, I understand what you mean, but I think it's just a matter of acclimatizing; concept creations are spotlight submissions now.

    @ Luketh: Thanks! I'm very proud of the volleyball playes, I can't believe I found out that hack by myself. :p

    @ Splitvision: I've been to a Turkish resort five times in a row and this is basically a mashup of the hotels I've seen there, in terms of ideas. I'm really glad you could relate to this, as that's what I was aiming for. Thanks! I will finish something large. Blykak is progressing well, I aim at a summer release. :p

    @ J K: Thanks! :D
  • posix%s's Photo
    congrats liampie. it's great to see you beginning to win solo accolades. at some point i thought you were stuck as a 'screen-player', but now with this gold win you've established yourself for me.

    i voted 14 so i'd say this is a little overscored. to me it was a gold. not a strong gold, but still gold. and gold is after all the 2nd highest achievement for parkmakers here.

    i'm looking forward to the day we find a new submission from you in our inbox :)
  • Luketh%s's Photo
    If you don't mind sharing, Liampie... how exactly DID you get the volleyball players to work?

    Looks like they're in a maze, but you somehow froze them in spot so they can only jump...

    Edited by Luketh, 17 November 2009 - 06:49 PM.

  • Comet%s's Photo
    I'd say Silver, it was really well done but there's not enough in something like this to hold attention for as long as a park
    Overall it was great, I just thought the water slides were way too out of the way from the main pool, something you never see at resorts. I would of also liked to see more detail with the streets and car park but not a big deal

    Definitely I place I would like to stay at
  • Ozone%s's Photo
    Everything was beautiful and well constructed. I especially liked the dolphin in the pool. This made me want to go on vacation!
  • prodigy%s's Photo
    Hot, absolutely hot. I love this one!!!
  • Liampie%s's Photo
    @ posix: I'm not stuck as a screen-player. Many many parks are yet to come! Thanks for the kind words.

    @ Luketh: I discoverd by accident that if you lower one tile of a maze while there's a peep on it, the peep moves to a certain corner of the tile depending on the direction it was walking and freezes. I'm sure there are many other uses for this hack.

    @ Comet: I didn't mind the slides being remote from the pool because I've seen it several times in real hotels too. It's clumsy, but realistic. Actually I wanted to make a waterpark next to the hotel (screen in Project X topic) but I deleted the plans because they were lacking and otherwise this would never be finished. I had to include slides somewhere, though. Any location was realistic. Thanks to you too!

    @ Ozone: Thanks!

    @ prodigy: Thanks! I love how you changed your avatar for me, so thanks for that too.
  • Roomie%s's Photo
    Nicely done Liampie. Reminds me alot of a resort i stayed in in Turkey. Everything looks really well done and as mentioned before I like the way the Hotel isn't a uniform structure like we have seen in previous hotel releases.

    Unfortunatly I cant open the park at work so cant see the vollyball players. But I'm intrigued to see if this hack works in LL too.

    You could make a nice looking wax figure museum if it works the way I'm imagining in my head :)
  • turbin3%s's Photo
    Awesome Liampie. :)
    I really love the dolphin on the pool-ground and the whole hotel-structure is great!
    Moreover the colours were well chosen.

    Looking forward to a full-scale solo of you, you have the potential for a parkmaker. :)

    Congrats on winning gold.

    Yannik
  • Liampie%s's Photo
    @ Roomie: Thanks! :) A wax figure museum? Cool idea, but maze-peeps aren't useful for such purpose I think. They jump all the time (they're still in the maze), they get tired after a while and then they look silly.

    @ Turbin3: Thanks!
  • Fr3ak%s's Photo
    Sorry 'bout the logo thing Liam.
    I just haven't had the time to give it a second try.
    I wanted to, but I was too crowded with work and other personal stuff, sorry again.

    For the park. I loved it which I think you know already because of my vote.
    So many little details and things to discover.
    It was very fun to look at.
  • Kumba%s's Photo
    Was pretty impressed by this. The details were just great everywhere. I loved the Dolphin in the pool, the activity on the beach and the stage with the DJ booth. The volleyball hack was really one of the coolest hacks I have seen in a long time, super creative. Now what prevented me from scoring this park higher was the hotel. Yeah it was well detailed like the rest of the park and realistic, but I found its form dull, a little blocky too. Also working versions of the slides would have been nice since it was a peep friendly park. Same with the mini golf witch really was a letdown imo.

    Great work overall and I am looking forward to seeing what else you might come up with :)
  • Liampie%s's Photo
    No big deal Fr3ak. As I said, I owe you and not the other way around. Thanks for the effort! Glad you like the hotel too.

    @Kumba: Thanks. You were my main inspiration for this actually, so here's another thanks. Thanks! I wanted to make the rides peepfriendly at first but I realised they weren't the main focus. This thing took me 1,5 years and I wanted to move on. It's not perfect, but it's good enough for me and apparently the panel liked it too! No regrets. :p