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Open-world RPGs with maps that are masterpieces of game design

There's nothing like a good video game map. While open-world RPGs are expected to include mini-games, side quests, outposts, collectibles, and whatever else they can cram in, none of those things ...
techtimes

Inside Open-World Game Development: How the Game Design Process Creates Immersive Maps and NPC Systems

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive. Horizon Forbidden West - Steam ...
Game Rant

How Mecha BREAK Approaches Striker Balance and Map Design

Joey Brown is an interview reporter, editor, and lifelong gamer with experience in nearly every genre from space sims and MMORPGs to metroidvanias and city builders. He has sat down with industry ...

Steam devs accuse Genshin Impact of 'straight up copying' their game idea

miHoYo's recent Genshin Impact event tasking players with finding coordinates on a map uses a mechanic also found in the cozy ...
Polygon

Black Ops 7 design director on why ‘WTF moments’ make for bad Call of Duty maps

Shortly before the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 beta began in October 2025, Treyarch detailed how the next entry in the storied first-person shooter series will be following a three-lane map design ...
Gameranx

GTA 6 Mini-Map Design Discussed By Gamers

As we’ve been discussing recently, the “little details” about game design can absolutely make or break how much gamers love certain titles. When there are key “lapses in judgment” with things like ...
VideoGamer

Battlefield Hardline designer wishes gamers played its DLC as Visceral “mastered the craft” of making maps

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