The Chronicles Of Doryen features a world map. It's important
because the world is huge and you need an easy way to know where to go.
The map allows you to see your position in the world and find places of
interest like cities. In fact, there is currently only cities, but I
plan to add more specific places like trainers and your active quest's
target. When you
have selected a place in the map, an indicator will appear on the main
game screen. Follow this indicator and you will reach the selected
place.
There are two pretty cool features embedded in the map. The first is
the zooming ability. You can zoom from an eagle eye view where each
console cell represents 250 cells of the game view to a very
low altitude view. In fact, you can currently zoom up to scale 1. The
zoom is done in real-time and is powered by the image mipmapping
features of the doryen
library...
You can see the zoom in action on this video.
Moreover,
the map does not behave like a paper map but rather like a plane view
of the world. Thus, it gets the changing daylight (orientation and
color). You can see this on this animated gif...
