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    Hey guys

    Not sure if you are familiar to this project and it was just released. I just got mine and I think you may like it.

    https://www.game-cities.com/virtual-cities-atlas

    Virtual Cities
    An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities

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    Video games allow us to construct and visit believable imaginary cities, provide us with glimpses of ancient urbanism, and let us immerse ourselves in the wildest utopias and darkest dystopias of our possible futures. They are an unprecedented canvas for experimenting with the urban environment, and an utterly unique medium for experiencing cities both imagined and real in truly immersive ways.


    I and visual artist Maria Kallikaki have embarked on a virtual journey to explore, catalogue, and map the most spectacular, intriguing, and defining places of this new digital geography.


    Virtual Cities was published on the 12th of November 2020.


    Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities is an ambitious and richly illustrated atlas that is the first detailed attempt to document the deep and exciting history of game cities via a combination of original maps, ink drawings, and insightful commentary and analysis.


    Virtual Cities is a beautiful book meant for lovers of cartography and imaginary worlds, artists, game designers, world builders, and, above all, everyone who plays and cares for video games.


    Virtual Cities covers 45 game cities across literary and gaming genres. Cities spanning almost 40 years of digital history, including detailed entries on Half-Life 2’s City 17, Yakuza’s Kamurocho, Fallout’s New Vegas, Silent Hill, Fallen London, and less well-known cities such as Antescher and Lizard Breath, plus cyberpunk Hong Kong, and voodoo New Orleans among many, many more.


    Every city featured in the atlas is re-imagined in its striking entirety from an in-world point of view, and cartographically described using traditional and unorthodox mapping methods. The reconstruction and filling in of essential details allowed me and artist Maria Kallikaki to visualize the often fragmented, incomplete, and out of scale cities of gaming in a cohesive way. Allcities are accompanied by subtly coloured ink drawings, and in-depth texts detailing its history, design lessons, atmosphere, landmarks, and geography.



    About the Book:


    A full colour, high quality hardback with printed endpapers.

    256 pages.

    216 by 286mm format with head and tail bands.

    46 original maps, and more than 100 drawings.


    The 45 cities included in the book (presented here in no particular order) are the following:
    The City, Thief: The Dark Project
    London, Fallen London
    Dunwall, Dishonored
    City 17, Half-Life 2
    New Vegas, Fallout: New Vegas
    Citadel, Mass Effect series
    Hong Kong, Shadowrun: Hong Kong
    Midgar, Final Fantasy VII
    Lizard Breath, It Came From The Desert
    New Orleans, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
    Silent Hill, Silent Hill
    Kamurocho, Yakuza 0
    Wan Chai, Shenmue II
    Steelport, Saints Row: The Third
    London, Assassin's Creed Syndicate
    Antescher, Ant Attack
    Rubacava, Grim Fandango
    Whiterun, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
    Sigil, Planescape: Torment
    Anytown, 0°N 0°W
    Anor Londo, Dark Souls
    Seaside Valley, Bus Simulator 18
    Dun Darach, Dun Darach
    Novigrad, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
    Rockvil, A Mind Forever Voyaging
    Mega Primus, X-COM: Apocalypse
    Orgrimmar, World of Warcraft
    Terrapolis, B.A.T.
    Olympic City, Need For Speed Underground
    Pripyat, STALKER: Call of Pripyat
    Metro City, Final Fight
    Raccoon City, Resident Evil 2
    New Bretagne, Lamplight City
    New York City, Deus Ex
    Yharnam, Bloodborne
    Clock Town, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
    Fourside, Earthbound
    Woodtick, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
    New Donk City, Super Mario Odyssey
    Tarsonis City, Starcraft series
    Gotham City, Batman: Arkham Knight
    Neketaka, Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
    Milton, The Long Dark
    Propast, Europolis, Dreamfall Chapters
    Union City, Beneath A Steel Sky

    I dont have any involvement with the book. Just got my copy and I thought that maybe you will like it.
    Last edited by TT1; 11-18-2020 at 08:26 AM.

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    Thanks for sharing this! It seems right up my alley.

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