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Under Construction: Building an Immersive Overworld

December 22, 2008 in Industry News comments 8

An analysis of how developers create over worlds in open world games. Also a discussion of how Frank Lloyd Wright's idea of form working with function should be applied when designing a virtual city.

An object's visual design and intended purpose should work together. And while this may seem like common sense, many developers fail to recognize the need to follow such concept. This is most evident in open world games like Mass Effect and Grand Theft Auto 4. Most if not all open world games can fall into two categories, beautiful and aimless or ugly and purposeful.
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    Bale Fire Dec 22, 08
    All I get is the name of site and a few links and then a blank page when I click the link, anyone else getting this?
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      Azentium Dec 22, 08
      What operating system and web browser are you using?
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        Bale Fire Dec 22, 08
        I'm using Windows Internet Explorer 7
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      Dark Arcanine Dec 22, 08
      You seem to have quite a few browser problems lately Silver Mirror. =( It's working fine for me.
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      Arikardo Dec 23, 08
      I think im having the same problem, get the site name, a banner or sorts and the name of the article thats it. No article.
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        Bale Fire Dec 23, 08
        That sounds like my problem.
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        Azentium Dec 23, 08
        It looks like this a common problem with IE7, I will do my best to fix this immediately.

        Also, interesting enough, only this page doesn't work with IE7. The rest work just fine.

        Edit: The page now works in IE7. It appears the source of the problem was a small html error in the article.
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      Nagare Dec 23, 08
      When I try to view the source I get an error.
      OS: Vista Home Premium
      Broswer: Chrome

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