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BioWare developers have always talked about polish and immersion when designing
Star Wars: The Old Republic. They have described some of the challenges of perfecting the game in their many
developer blogs. Everything from
art design to
combat has been discussed. In the center of it all are the game testing metrics that everyone from Lead Combat Designer
Georg Zoeller to Community Manager
Stephen Reid have talked about. What do the metrics tell us is the most important part of the
SWTOR user interface? Lead Systems Designer
Damion Schubert tells us in the
latest dev blog:
When Georg told the design team that maps were the most-opened part of the user interface in the game, our map specialists just nodded in understanding. They already knew that being able to find your way around the world was going to be hugely important to our success. Thanks largely to the enduring efforts of those on the map team who believe passionately in the importance of what they are doing, our maps system are a core, essential part of the adventuring experience in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Schubert tells us the details of making a proper map should not only be esthetically pleasing but dynamically help the player move about the complex environments of
The Old Republic. Check out everything else Schubert has to say in
the blog on the official site.
