Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. Compare this to the variety of mobs in Doom and Quake maps, with terrain designed first and foremost for the NPCs. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game. Money sink.

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iXie gaming

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Testing an open-world game can be complex and demanding due to the vast and interconnected nature of the game world. If your internal team can’t handle open-world game testing, seeking professional game QA services is highly recommended. But what is an open-world game? Boundaries and collision.

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Open World Quality Assurance Bug Games 52

iXie gaming

MARCH 2, 2025

Genshin Impact: miHoYo uses a combination of handcrafted assets and procedural generation to sustain its ever-expanding open-world environment. Procedural Generation By automating terrain, foliage, and props, procedural generation: (i). Enables dynamic world-building with non-repetitive assets.

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

I used GenoTerra to research and reflect about the design process using procedural generation in the creation of base shapes that the designer/s in a studio can use to create a more coherent game world. “Open World Games" have the potential for countless hours of exploration and fun through their huge game worlds.

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Prototyping Terrain Open World Rigging 52

The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you want to have an enormous open world, some copy-pasting will be necessary, even for games with huge budgets. For example, you can make the same goblin (well, moblin) fort play entirely differently by placing it in ways that interact with the terrain around it. What I Would Do To Fix It You can't fix it. To be fair.

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Cutscenes Terrain Games Puzzle 88

Game Errors

APRIL 6, 2023

Here is another open world, but if you take a walk around, you see that everywhere is new, different, and above all interesting. You may think they are good for getting over rough terrain, but steering your horse is a slow and arduous process that makes traveling over rough terrain more difficult.

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Terrain Mechanics Sandbox Bug 52

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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Point and Click Mechanics Feature Open World 52