YumeWiki:World Map Assessment

This page explains how to track of the location maps hosted on the wiki, assessing their quality, and tracking ongoing issues with them.

All maps require a letter grade. New maps should be assigned letter grades.

Letter grade

Letter grades serve as a broad indicator of how usable and compliant with the Style Guide a given map is. Maps with worse letter grades should generally be prioritized for adjustment over maps with better ones. The worse the letter grade, the more adjustments needed to bring a map to compliance.

Despite their superficial similarity to educational grades, these grades do not correspond directly to letters grades used in schooling. They should not be used like letters in a "tier list". Maps should be assessed according to the criteria below, independently of each other. For very complicated maps or maps you're not sure of how to assess, consider going to that location in-game and then trying to use the map to navigate it, and assess how difficult it is to use.

Do not use +/- for letter grades. Give a single letter grade to every map. In other words, don't grade maps using notation like "B-" or "B/C". If you're torn between two letters, give the worse grade.

When prioritizing maps to adjust, triage in this order: F > D > C > B > Z > A.

Definitions

A: Exemplary. Needs very few, if any, adjustments to be compliant with the Style Guide. The map is readable, accurate, and includes all necessary information to navigate the area it depicts.

Deep Dreams: Hospital. This map was completely rearranged from its raw map data and organized neatly into linear rooms. It uses a readable typeface, contains exhaustive navigation information, and uses appropriate and clean design choices to show its internal connections.

Yume Nikki: Pink Sea. This map has clean, easy-to-read labels on all of its major features, which do not hamper navigation.

B: Good. The map is readable and reasonably accurate. It only has minor style issues. It may require some small adjustments to be in line with the Style Guide, or might be missing minor navigation information.

Ultra Violet: Emerald Square. This map generally has good navigation information and is not missing anything, but its internal connections are marked using slightly cluttered linework rather than a more appropriate design choice, such as a label.

Yume Tsushin: Cubic Lamp Meadow. This map uses clean design and labels all appropriate points of interest, but the labels somewhat obscure some landmarks.

C: Noncompliant. The map is usable by most users, but has noticeable deviations from the Style Guide. Some of its design elements may cause accessibility issues. It requires moderate adjustment to be in line with the Style Guide. It might be missing navigation information.

Yume 2kki: Monochrome Mansion. This map shows all appropriate navigation information, but uses extremely long lines to try to compensate for its non-linear arrangement, rather than being rearranged, creating unnecessary visual clutter.

Collective Unconscious: Ghost Village. This map shows all appropriate navigation information, but the colors selected for the labels contrast poorly with their backgrounds, and the connecting lines are unnecessarily made different colors. The typeface selected may not be the most readable.

D: Needs improvement. The map has obvious style problems that require major adjustment to be fixed, but it is better than not having it at all. The map might be visually confusing or hard to use. It likely has accessibility issues. It might be missing important navigation information, or have minor misinformation. It might be slightly outdated.

Yume Tsushin: Urban Cityscape. The map uses many long lines and duplicates several parts of the map's environment in a confusing way. No explanation of this map's gimmick is printed on the map, either. However, this map does make navigating a difficult environment easier.

Yume 2kki: Sierpinski Maze. The map has several crisscrossing lines, all color-coded for no clear reason. It is visually confusing and messy, and should be either rearranged or use symbols such as letters to indicate teleports instead.

F: Needs to be redone. The map falls afoul of many map guidelines that severely hamper its usability. It might actively make navigation more difficult. It might have major misinformation. It might have no navigation information whatsoever. It might be severely outdated.

Yume 2kki: Coral Shoal. The linework on this map is both overly lengthy and contrasts so poorly with the bright background that many of its lines are barely visible. Important features blend into the map, rather than being clearly indicated with circles or labels. The lines on the map are also unnecessarily multicolored.

Dotflow: Utility Pole World. This map has no navigation information whatsoever.

Z: Needs to be redone, but doing so will be highly difficult and time-consuming. Has similar issues as grade F, but on a widespread scale. The map is effectively almost useless. This letter grade should be reserved for highly complicated maps or maps with hard-to-explain gimmicks that would require major adjustment to a map's look to communicate. Maps like this might need a specialized solution to be made usable.

Yume 2kki: Art Exposition. This map uses prohibited colored markers everywhere to indicate its vast array of internal teleports, using many colored dots that only differ very slightly in color from each other, making trying to read this map difficult even for people with normal color vision. It has many long connecting lines as well. It is visually overwhelming and extremely difficult to use.

Yume 2kki: Desolate Hospital. This map has many colored dots that contrast poorly from each other, as well as no explanation whatsoever of this map's strange gimmick, making this map's design indecipherable and rendering it useless.

Notes

Include any observations about the map you find. This can include explaining your reasoning for why you've given a map a particular letter grade, or listing specific issues or Style Guide violations you've discovered. You may also briefly list adjustments that can be made to the map to make it more usable or compliant with our guidelines.