{"id":17257,"date":"2018-04-13T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316556"},"modified":"2018-04-13T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:08:00","slug":"blog-designing-the-gigantic-map-of-mafia-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/blog-designing-the-gigantic-map-of-mafia-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog: Designing the gigantic map of Mafia III"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra\u2019s community.
The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company.<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This is the first in a series of articles discussing gameworlds I’ve designed and worked on.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ever since Wizardry<\/em> and Bard’s Tale<\/em> I’ve loved\u00a0discovering and making world maps!\u00a0 Mafia 3’s New Bordeaux was the biggest world I’ve ever been part of.\u00a0 I must have gone through several hundred iterations and updates\u00a0for the city layout and ecologies.<\/p>\n

With the help of\u00a0Petr Z\u00e1vesk\u00fd<\/a>\u00a0and others we were able to create a fantastic top-down render of the city.\u00a0 The next thing to do was\u00a0getting 2K Games on board in creating a foldout map for the game.\u00a0 Paul Pierce<\/a>\u00a0was the talented artist who stylized the Road Atlas.\u00a0 I originally proposed it as a bonus item in the Collector’s Edition.\u00a0 Then 2K Games took it to the next level and made it available in every game case!\u00a0\u00a0Paul later updated it to include all DLC information too (see below).<\/p>\n

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