Open-world games need a balanced map UI for both guidance and exploration. Games like Skyrim, No Man's Sky, Fallout 3, and Elden Ring excel in crafting immersive map interfaces.

Over the last decade-or-so, diegetic UIs - that is, interfaces which exist within the game world itself - have become far more common, and one of the most evocative examples to date is in Campo ...

Maps have long played a critical role in video games, whether as the main user interface, a reference guide, or ... a 1987 RPG that was one of the first games to incorporate a map of its world similar ...