It's fall already? Wow, time flies.
I have a lot of stuff to keep me busy in real life right now, but for some reason I really needed to get this overworld out of the way first, and could absolutely not bring myself to work on anything else before that was done. (Which it is now, so phew.)
Unlike world 2's map which was just a minor edit of world 1's, this one was redrawn from scratch, so it took quite a bit more work and doesn't match their style perfectly. (The colors were especially challenging to get right - not even in the sense of graphics ripping, I just had a lot of trouble finding colors that go well together.) At the end, though, I'm really happy with how this turned out.
Time to place some levels on there! (After real-life duties are done, that is.) I've come up with a few ideas for gimmicks and settings over the past few days, so world 3 is already coming together pretty nicely.