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Gizmo J 15 Aug @ 11:55am
The Importance Of Doors In Video Games
Imagine if someone told you "I have 50 doors in my house", you would be like "WOW! you must live in a gigantic mansion!"


Now imagine if someone told you "I only have 1 door in my house", you would be like "You must live in a tiny shack in the middle of nowhere! I feel sorry for you."


Doors creates a very "Urban" environment.


You ever wondered why the early Grand Theft Auto games never had doors? They just had a highlated area and when you approach the highlated area you "teleported" inside the building. The reason the games were like this is because the developers at rockstar didn't know how to make a door at the time.

Doors also change the gameplay, you can do things such as "coordinated attacks", you and your partner can do things such "in 3 seconds we're going to charge in at the same time ", you can't really do stuff like that without doors.


The reason a lot games don't have doors because it's actually pretty difficult to implement, the video below explains why.



https://youtu.be/AYEWsLdLmcc?si=Syyy8BCwC4UBPzlZ
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WarHeRo 15 Aug @ 11:57am 
i think yakuza solved it pretty decently
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Gizmo J 15 Aug @ 7:27pm 
Originally posted by WarHeRo:
i think yakuza solved it pretty decently

I'm not sure what you mean.
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MinionJoe 15 Aug @ 7:47pm 
With the room specialization bonuses added recently to Rimworld, video game doors are more important than ever.

You can't just leave your butcher block right there in the middle of the prison anymore. You've got to move it off to a side room and hide it behind a door to get the productivity bonuses.
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Delta Fuxtrot 15 Aug @ 7:58pm 
Now that I think about it, the door opening animations from the old Resident Evil games were such a creative way to not have a screen simply saying LOADING on it. I dunno if any other games did it first though, but still a creative choice I think. 🚪
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OmegaBilly1 15 Aug @ 8:18pm 
Neat description but...

Doors usually for me go one of two ways.

They either function like a door or they just teleport you to a different location like you said.

...But most of the time if it's in an RPG usually this happens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW6xy9UVlFg
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Affronter 15 Aug @ 9:14pm 
Originally posted by AI Overview:
The Doors music has been featured in several video games, including "Need for Speed: Underground 2", "Tony Hawk's American Wasteland", and "Guitar Hero World Tour". "Riders on the Storm" (remixed by Snoop Dogg) appears in "Need for Speed: Underground 2". "Peace Frog" is in "Tony Hawk's American Wasteland". "Love Me Two Times" is in "Guitar Hero World Tour". "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" is in "Ultimate Band". The "Doors" game on Roblox also features original soundtracks.

It’s all I could be bothered to find.
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Gizmo J 16 Aug @ 4:24pm 
Arma 2 is the first FPS with air/land/sea vehicles and doors.


Rainbow Six Lockdown is the first FPS with iron sights and doors.
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-OrLoK- Слава Україн 16 Aug @ 4:35pm 
Doors cause all sorts of issues.
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Ulfrinn 16 Aug @ 4:52pm 
What if I told you i had 50 doors in my garage? Would you think "wow, he must have a huge garage!" Or would you think "He must be storing them for a construction project he's working on."
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craigsters 16 Aug @ 4:59pm 
I stopped playing Fallout 4 because the NPC's don't use Doors and stand outside instead near a window

I used to make big beautiful house's in the settlements and added doors in the appropriate places too

The mods to correct this behaviour never worked either
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Electric Cupcake 16 Aug @ 5:25pm 
Hearing the Doom Door Opening sound everywhere is quite vexing. Like recognizing bad kerning.
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Gizmo J 18 Aug @ 8:30pm 
Rainbow Six Vegas appears to be the first game with a cover system and doors.
Last edited by Gizmo J; 18 Aug @ 8:30pm
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tom foolery 18 Aug @ 8:38pm 
This gives me Rust legacy flashbacks.
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Gizmo J 27 Sep @ 7:07pm 
(I just wanted to talk about doors in video games some more.)



Without doors the gameplay is all about randomly running and gunning the whole time, doors encourages you to strategize.

Doors also gives you the ability to "hide", like in Minecraft or a zombie/survival game you can close the door and the zombie or beast won't be able to kill you.

The reason doors are important is because doors "EXIST"! If you're trying to make a video game that's realistic, you need to include everything that exists.


You ever heard of the term "In-doors"? You can't make a "In-door" environment without doors!
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Lime 27 Sep @ 7:09pm 
Originally posted by Gizmo J:
You ever wondered why the early Grand Theft Auto games never had doors? They just had a highlated area and when you approach the highlated area you "teleported" inside the building. The reason the games were like this is because the developers at rockstar didn't know how to make a door at the time.
They very much knew how to do it at the time, it just wasn't practical with the current hardware. Interior cells were separated to use less memory
Last edited by Lime; 27 Sep @ 7:11pm
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