Game Wisdom

JANUARY 7, 2023

Opening Up About Open World Design Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com. For this Perceptive Podcast, I sat down with Konstantinos Dimopoulos for another chat about open-world design and creating meaningful spaces for the player to explore in a game. width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen".

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Game Developer

MARCH 28, 2023

Ubisoft Toronto's Heli Kennedy and Brandon Hennessy go into the narrative design of 2021's Far Cry 6 and its standalone expansion, Far Cry 6: Lost Between Worlds.

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Game Developer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Open world survival title with a focus on time travel will be out on October 11th in Early Access. or will it?

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Game Development News

MAY 29, 2024

The unannounced game will be a narrative-led open-world driving game for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Maverick Games was founded in 2022, by several of the core team behind the critically acclaimed open-world …

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Game Wisdom

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Open World RPG Design With ArdenFall Developer Interview Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" For this Perceptive Podcast, I’m speaking with Joshua Steinhauer who is the lead designer on the game Ardenfall — an open-world RPG to discuss building the game, RPG design and more.

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Game Developer

MAY 31, 2023

Blank's debut project will be a "character-driven story from an apocalypse."

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Explore the latest news and expert commentary on Press Release, brought to you by the editors of Game Developer

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Game Developer

MARCH 22, 2024

Historian and games consultant Glaire Anderson highlights the importance of DEI and how Ubisoft's open-world game was elevated by insightful research.

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Game Developer

JANUARY 24, 2024

The GTA Trilogy ends up being a winner over on Netflix, proving the open world franchise's longevity.

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Game Developer

MARCH 24, 2023

The cinematic director for Guerrilla Games' open-world post-apocalyptic game describes their approach to adding epic flair.

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Game Developer

AUGUST 17, 2023

Ubisoft continues to get its cards in order for Far Cry, and has assigned longtime employee Sandra Warren as VP for the whole survival open-world series.

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Game Developer

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

We’re currently developing a mini open world local co-op called Bugging Humans. It has a shared asymmetrical UI — where one player doesn’t see the screen but they have the controller, and the other player sees the screen and they have the keyboard. This means best practices, for instance in level design, have to be adapted.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 5, 2021

One common "problem" with Skyrim (and most open world RPGs) is that you end up with a bunch of money and nothing to spend it on, except nice-to-have things like convenient access to crafting materials or a house. This game is scared that the player might not have an activity every 15 seconds. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.

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Game Wisdom

JULY 18, 2024

With their latest, they’ve gone from open-world exploration and RPG, to a brawler, and while the game has … The post Zenless Zone Zero Shows the Limits of Mobile Action Games appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 29, 2024

The unannounced driving game will be open world and narrative-led, and release across PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. Amazon will be publishing Maverick Games' debut title. Co-creator of TV show Skins, Jamie Brittain, is on board as the game's lead writer. Maverick was founded by Playground Games' veterans in January 2023.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

Aesir specializes in open-world games, with key genres including simulator games like Police Simulator: Patrol Officers and Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator , alongside horse-riding games such as the Windstorm franchise and Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 26, 2024

The open-world MMO developed by XL Games was initially launched back in 2015. Kakao Games will be shutting down the North American and European servers for ArcheAge on June 27. In the announcement, Kakao Games attributed the game's sunsetting to its player performance. Read more

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Game Developer

DECEMBER 22, 2022

From open worlds to unannounced worlds.

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

We have been hard at work the past few months revamping our combat system, implementing new AI behaviors and a health system, and completely changing the environment to a more open-world landscape.

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GamesIndustry.biz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The open-world survival MMO, as of writing, has a mostly negative rating on Steam. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Fntastic has shut down less than a week after The Day Before launched in Early Access on Steam. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz

JANUARY 17, 2024

Those three projects are the open-world experience Everywhere, the story-driven action adventure MindsEye, and Arcadia, a set of user-generated content tools. Build A Rocket Boy today announced that it has closed a $110 million Series D funding round to help the studio launch a trio of "flagship" products.

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Indie DB

MARCH 2, 2024

Pale Coins is an Action RPG set in a fantasy world with challenging combat, open world exploration and a variety of items. Traverse old forests, dark caves, weathered ruins and unknown places, to find the Champion's Coin and fulfill your greatest wish.

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GamesIndustry.biz

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After exploring an open-world formula with Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo's flagship IP has returned to its platforming roots with Super Mario Bros Wonder, releasing today.

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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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Game From Scratch

MARCH 11, 2024

Project Titan is a 10 week long game jam using Unreal Engine for creating an open world, open source project. GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine Project Titan Epic Games have just announced the launch of Project Titan.

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GamesIndustry.biz

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Some games' ecosystem of "clones" can escape this trap by diversifying enough to become a genre of their own ("Doom-clones" essentially becoming FPS games, "GTA-clones" more or less evolving into the open world genre), while others will spiral away through growing player apathy as attention moves on to the next trend or fad.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 3, 2023

The open world adventure game has now secured six No.1s Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is back at No.1 1 again in the UK physical retail charts. 1s since it released eight weeks ago. It briefly had to accept second place during the weeks that Diablo 4 and Final Fantasy 16 were released.

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Indie DB

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Trailer and information of "Humanoid", the BinaryBrigade's new survival open world game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 12, 2023

The studio known for the Killzone series dropped its linear levels, guns and space Nazis for a sprawling open world, more primitive weapons, and robot dinosaurs. Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Horizon: Zero Dawn was a dramatic shift for Guerrilla Games.

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Indie DB

JULY 20, 2023

A multiplayer, open-world survival crafting game where you can ⚔️battle, ?‍?farm or mysterious collected creatures in a vast world?️! farm with your friends?‍?‍?

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PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

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.

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PreMortem.Games

JUNE 19, 2023

He had been building giant open-world games like Fallout and Skyrim in large teams for years. So, as a first time solo developer in order to keep things simple he decided to make his first project a… giant open world game. The Axis Unseen is a heavy-metal open-world horror game. “If

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Indie DB

JULY 4, 2023

Discover a thrilling world of adventure in Spire Horizon, an RPG open world game, where you embody a skeleton protagonist, explore a visually stunning world, engage in battles against formidable enemies, and embark on quests to piece together of your.

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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. Have you ever played a game where you felt frustrated because the quest you were on had you running back and forth to places you just came from without anything else to do?

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Indie DB

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Our new open world / narrative / investigative / life-sim adventure On Your Tail finally lands on IndieDB! Can't wait to keep you all up to date on our progress!

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Indie DB

JULY 16, 2023

Hello everyone This is the 4th devlog for Silent Shores a open world horror game for this devlog I will show how music plays in the game in the video below. At the current moment the music plays randomly within the game. I will soon change this to only.

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Starloop Studios

JANUARY 5, 2023

From simple pixel graphics to complex, life-like open worlds, the visuals of modern video games are unparalleled. Video games have come a long way since their inception. Of course, this advancement wouldn’t be possible without animation and VFX (visual effects).

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