PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Yet, for indie dev Almar, it offered an escape from the corporate rat race he felt trapped in. An open-world social simulation of a whole human civilization on Mars. The toll on your mental health can be quite high for solo devs. For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. How do you deal with that?

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GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 4, 2024

The Believer Company has today released its internal development tool Friendshipper as an open-source project. The studio was founded by veterans from Riot Games and is currently working on a next-generation open-world multiplayer game.

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Half Geek

MAY 5, 2019

I had two game in mind that I wanted to work on moving forward, a fantasy open world with empire building inspired by Heroes of Might & Magic (3), or a new sci-fi space epic focused on large fleets & empire building.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 27, 2025

However, this can become problematic in games with really large environments, because testing every square inch of every environment in an open-world game like Horizon Zero Dawn or Breath of the Wild is a monstrous task for QA. Join us on Discord ] The FANTa Project is currently on hiatus while I am crunching at work too busy.

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Ask a Game Dev

JUNE 9, 2023

There were complaints about Sony’s devs reusing certain animations in God of War Ragnarok, about Guerilla Games reusing animations in Horizon Forbidden West, about Pokemon reusing assets between games, about Volition reusing assets between Saints Row games, and so on.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

The Witness fully commits to hundreds of puzzles at the scope of an open world game. I'm disappointed, but I understand why the devs made these choices. But when you actually play this, it turns out neither of those are useful comparisons. Neither of these really get at the player experience in Botany Manor.

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Ask a Game Dev

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 22, 2024

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ Your brain is being shown many things that have all subconsciously meant "big" to it before, so it assumes that its internal rules are still correct and the thing is big.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

From a game dev perspective, it's been fascinating to play. In this post, I compare and contrast the original and this modern remake from a dev / design perspective. Even AAA has given up on immersive sim RPGs , so any dev deserves praise just for attempting this genre I think. The Forgotten City (2021).

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 11, 2024

Indie developer Chibig started in 2017 as a one-dev studio in Valencia, Spain. Combining the looks of a Ghibli movie with the condensed open world of that game, gave birth to the idea of an apprentice witch delivering packages. So, finally, we decided to stick to the original plan and create a short adventure.

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DameDev.tv

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Rick has more than 14 years experience in the game dev industry, working on IP's that include Mario, Transformers, Captain America and Mortal Kombat. Most open world RPG games use tilesets as it’s easier to create good looking backgrounds for larger worlds and is more time efficient.

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Ask a Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ If we consistently miss milestones by too much and the project is in danger of getting cancelled. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The illustration picture is from Door in the Woods , an open world roguelike inspired by the lovecraftian mythos and developed in Godot by teedoubleuGAMES. Please check first the existing issues , using the search function with relevant keywords, to ensure that the bug you experience is not known already.

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Game Designing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Though it is easily overlooked, especially for newer devs focused more on the nitty-gritty of game development, the atmosphere is a crucial component for any successful release. Both are open-world action-adventure games with fantasy elements and similar mechanics. Compare two games Breath of the Wild and Elden Ring.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 24, 2023

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ As long as we can keep the smoke and mirrors going, the player never sees the railroad tracks they’re following. Join us on Discord ] and/or [ Support us on Patreon ] Got a burning question you want answered?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

supports advanced global illumination techniques such as lightmapping (including SH lightmapping), Voxel GI (which is fully real-time) and SDFGI (which is a single click, open world GI solution). Streaming is the most important feature missing for managing large scenes or open worlds. Additionally, Godot 4.0

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 6, 2023

Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ. They can choose more challenging encounters if they desire, but it can help guide most players though a reasonable critical path.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

OCTOBER 11, 2020

This large open world allows you to select which faction you want to become part of and then you can start working on building up and customizing your own starship and character. The game world is huge and you can pretty much do whatever you want. Endless Sky. Astro Empires. Vega Conflict. Want to Make Video Games?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JUNE 27, 2020

Introduction Video: Very large, open world scene with real-time GI: Future. SDFGI Probes: Shows where probes are (only near cascade for now), helps you understand where your geometry is reading lighting from. If an areas has less probe density, it may get wrong occlusion. How does it work? Will write an article about this soon.

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SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

hours of gameplay and therefore my goal is to create an open world where my character can explore 6 different micro-environments each taking about 15 minutes to complete and each with their own set of obstacles, characters and stories. Time Chunks: The first game element I play with is time. I want a game with roughly 1.5

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Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Here we’re primarily talking about the player revisiting earlier floors on their journey, rather than backtracking within a single map (though I’ll cover that topic a bit separately at the end), and our discussion focuses on roguelikes of the dungeon delving variety, since open world games generally allow backtracking by default.

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Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you follow that link, you’ll see open world events occurring as the quest proceeds, done without zone or quest locking, etc. We used the term actively on MUD-Dev back in the day, making the distinction between simulation and “stagecraft.” It famously only added any crafting because the dev team saw it in UO during beta.

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Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This new space adventure features the open-world environment on planets beyond the solar system. In Starfield, the bad FPS would be under 30 FPS, according to the game devs, who capped the frames per second at 30 on Xbox Series X or S. Is the Starfield low FPS issue hurting your gameplay experience on your PC?

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Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

For the first time ever, Godot also comes with a GI technique that can be used with large open worlds — signed distance field global illumination ( SDFGI ). GIProbe has been replaced by the VoxelGI node, which is a real-time solution fit for small and medium-scale environments.

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Grid Sage Games

JULY 17, 2022

The above samples show encounters added to a variety of Garrison layouts, highlighted with a dev visualization overlay. In playtesting so far this (among other benefits we’ll get to later) is already clearly tempting players who would otherwise always prefer regular branches over infiltrating a Garrison.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

JANUARY 30, 2025

Here's a proper rundown of all the new goodies we've been cookin' up in the Kristala dev oven since our Chapter II launch last October: Addition of an Important new NPC & ongoing questline Initial implementation of a fully redesigned Menu / UI system New mechanics tied to Food items (snackable consumables and dish recipes!)

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