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Deliver At All Cost by Far Out Games is a destructive joyride through a 1950s wonderland

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Silly things He admits that game- and level design was a real puzzle to solve in the semi-open world that allows players to carve their own paths by smashing through just about everything. “It Some of the initial concept and atmosphere from that school project still resides within the game,” explains Olsson.

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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori reaches Kickstarter goal in just 19 hours

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Alice Ruppert , a leading authority on equestrian games with her website The Mane Quest and a producer on the game, spent most of 2023 working on its inception and concept, laying the foundation for a game that faithfully portrays horses. So, we wanted to go for a style that can be highly appealing to open-world adventure players.

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I’ve noticed that when I play open world games I can have wildly different emotional reactions to exploration. Like, a new quest hub opens up and sometimes I go “Oh nice, there’s so much to do” and sometimes I go “oh no, there’s so much to do”. Why does this happen and what design choices make the difference?

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In cognitive psychology, theres this concept calledCognitive Load. For an open world game like you mention, this means careful placement of quest givers and quest goals relative to each other in the world. It refers to the maximum number of things a person can easily remember and recall at once.

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Design review of Redfall by Arkane Studios Austin

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I completed the main campaign in Redfall ( official site, Steam , also on Game Pass), a 4 player co-op open world shooter by Arkane Austin, who's mostly known for detailed single player story-filled action games. There are two open world regions, Redfall Commons and Burial Point.

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Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori takes equestrian gaming to 13th century Mongolia

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Alice Ruppert , a leading authority on equestrian games with her website The Mane Quest and a producer on the game, spent most of 2023 working on its inception and concept, laying the foundation for a game that faithfully portrays horses. “We So, we wanted to go for a style that can be highly appealing to open-world adventure players.

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Scaling Art Production for Live-Service Games: Challenges, Innovations, and Future-Ready Pipelines 

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Genshin Impact: miHoYo uses a combination of handcrafted assets and procedural generation to sustain its ever-expanding open-world environment. Manual handoffs between concept artists, modelers, and animators. (ii). AI-Assisted Art Creation Generative AI accelerates concept art, texturing, and asset variations.

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Analysis • Palworld by Pocketpair: the equal-opportunity offender

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It’s an open-world survival craft game where you tame monsters and put them to work. Both feature large open worlds and show the same exact environmental indicators (e.g., The hottest game these weeks is Palworld by Japanese developer Pocketpair. And it has earned more than $200 million in its first five days.