Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive.

This is probably the best example of prototypes I wish we actually got. I mean, look at this thing; it looks like something that would be at home on a shelf in RoboCop, and you wouldn’t even question ...