The Ancient Art of War at Westeros Part 2: The Queen of the Iron Throne

The second video for the SlashBit Retro Cinema is up!

While I didn’t invest as much time on this one as I did on the Castlevania one, this one has a long story going back to 2015 when I started working on the map hoping to have something like the video ready before the start of Season 6. That didn’t happen but I pushed forward to finish the 128×256 tiles map and then further worked on it by adding google maps support for it.

It stayed that way for over a year but with the spectacular Season 7 underway I decided to revive the project and got working on it after finishing the Castlevania one. Ashton created an extended version of the track and I made the sigils of the houses using an EGA palette. I also did some tweaks on the map graphics specially to make some castles and places look more like the ones on the series..

The first version I created didn’t have the zoom effects. I still think it looks more authentic than the final cut but the feedback I got was that it was hard to appreciate the scale of the world. I am not sure something like this could be achieved back then without a special video card, at least not on a PC with an EGA or VGA card.

I did some research in order to assign the stats for each one of the houses. Most of them are just raw approximates which I thought made sense from the little available data.

Enjoy!