Elizabeth Harper
Nightcap: The comics we should be reading
You need to see the new Sugar Plum Sylvanas skin right now
Heroes of the Storm free hero rotation, Winter Veil, and Lunara
Heroes of the Storm patch notes for December 15
Is the Mesmerizing Fruit Hat better than Pepe?
Webcomic Wrapup: Platforming
Legion’s transmog system only available for your armor type
Breakfast Topic: Is the endless updating and configuring of addons worth it?
Video guide to Legion’s new battle pet models
The Queue: In which I rant about maps
When I first started playing games, the major in-game maps as we know them now just didn’t exist. If there were maps at all, they were likely to be physical things that came in a game box, vaguely describing the game world in paper or (for fancier games) cloth. So how did I find my way around? I made my own maps with graph paper and as-neat-as-I-could-manage handwriting. How old-school is that?
I still have, tucked away in my desk, whole notebooks of game maps, particularly MUDs for which the graph paper method worked particularly well. Perhaps I’m spoiled these days, though, because not only do I expect maps in the games themselves, I expect good maps… and WoW‘s just don’t meet my expectations. But whether you care about maps or not, read on for answers to your questions.



