Guild Wars 2's player housing pushes decorating over land grabs
This Friday evening, we have a feature on the creation of Guild Wars 2's new housing system, a featured blog on consumer spending in the market, and news from the likes of Games for Change and SNK.
All the fun parts of owning a home, minus the HOA fees.
Guild Wars 2 doesn't follow in the footsteps of survival games where players build their homes and decorations brick by brick. Because it's an evolution of the existing decoration tool, it's meant to let players enter a "fly mode" and navigate their camera around the space, placing objects precisely as desired.
Playtesting the Homestead feature also inspired ArenaNet to design new tools, said Luebbers. Players will have access to a "wireframe mode" in their home area that can render objects in their Homestead as easily visible outlines. They'll be able to see through obstacles and terrain and be better able to find decorative objects that they misplaced or previously buried in the ground.
This article sheds a comprehensive light on today's market, leading to the last part of the series, which, in turn, touches upon opportunities and ideas on what to do and how to behave in such a challenging market.
Games for Change aims to celebrate and empower those developers driving real-world change.
The Fatal Fury developer said it wants to become a 'top 10 global publisher' within the next decade.