Google Opens ‘Maps’ API So Devs Can Create ‘Pokémon Go’-style Games
Road to VR
MARCH 20, 2018
Building large virtual worlds is costly and time-consuming when done by hand. Using the example of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) , which remains one of the most expensive and richest game worlds ever created, Jacoby noted that this was, at launch, it only as big as downtown Manhattan (in terms of real-world scale).
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