Film and Open World - Game Developers Network

How IMMORTALITY captures an "open world" feel with its narrative

Game Developer

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

IMMORTALITY explores the three lost films of fictional actress Marissa Marcel, letting players click on elements to leap between films to piece together her real story.

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Ubisoft Forward: Star Wars due in 2024, Avatar on December 7

GamesIndustry.biz

JUNE 12, 2023

Avatar director James Cameron made an appearance via a pre-recorded segment saying it's "always been [his] vision to explore technologies" and mediums beyond film to show more of Pandora's world. It'll also offer two player co-op.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

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iHobo

JULY 12, 2023

Grand Theft Auto III provided the solution: use a film-like narrative to block out a prescribed route to follow, so that the player alternates between intervals of 'infinite agency' and following-the-path. It is the model that all contemporary open world games follow. They needed much more help than it provided.

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Solo dev Lincoln McCulloch’s all-consuming journey to develop Dungeons & Kingdoms

PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

He was working as a software developer while also making independent films and playing in a band before McCulloch turned all his time and attention to game development. I continued to learn and experiment with things like larger open worlds. This is when I first started really digging into world building.

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Narrative

iHobo

JULY 5, 2023

The genius of The Chinese Room's ground-breaking ghost story was to see that a game world is a canvas upon which stories are painted just as much in a walking simulator as in a so-called open world game.

Fantasy

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The Complete Guide To Lighting In Unreal Engine

Awesome Tuts

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is best demonstrated in open world scenes where we have actors that are far away. Now if we change the Metering Mode to manual we’ll see a different scene: Even though the Exposure Compensation remained at 15, when we changed the Metering Mode to Manual our scene looked way better.

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The Evolution of Digital Storytelling

Game Design Aspect

AUGUST 12, 2020

But television and film are still limited in choices. Players are allowed to explore with curiosity, usually in an open world, and feel immersed. Personalization, which used to be limited by genre categories in a video store, is commonplace. NetFlix even personalizes thumbnails for you based on algorithms.

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Sony’s State of Play 2022- Delving into the Exclusivity

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The game’s graphics look incredibly smooth with dynamic weather effects and character models that look better than most CGI films made in the late 2000’s. Unlike its namesake, this game is not a turn-based RPG, but rather a action-adventure title that is looking to incorporate certain open-world elements to it.

Fighting

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The top 22 mobile games of 2022

Game Analytics

DECEMBER 28, 2022

They even have artwork on the walls from famous films and games (we spotted Mars Attack and what we think was Left for Dead). We don’t see this often enough in casual simulation games, but there is a lovely open-world feel to this game. The design for each level is very similar, but it doesn’t ever feel repetitive.

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Is there an alternative to gaming’s dystopian gloom?

Game Daily

JULY 19, 2023

It also helps that depopulated worlds – or at least those populated by easily replicated baddies – are much cheaper and easier to produce than well-ordered, sophisticated societies. Gershenfeld recalled his days working on open world games at Activision. “Open worlds are complex, expensive.

Media

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Unity Environment Design Tutorial: How I Built This World in 24 Hours

SOVEREIGN MOON

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Coming from an indie film background, I’m accustomed to thinking about ways to creatively squeeze as much production value out of a project as possible while working within my limits and not overstepping my boundaries. Today was the day that we started production and I just wanted to share our progress with you so far. .

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Setting the Mood: Exploring Lighting and Mood in Game Art