'Overwatch' Gameplay, News: Director Reveals Dorado Map Images Mistakenly Inspired by a Different City
"Overwatch" game director Jeff Kaplan recently revealed one big honest mistake: the Dorado map was inspired by a city that is nowhere near Mexico.
During the Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain Summit 2017 this week where the game director was asked to give a keynote speech, Kaplan let fans and players of "Overwatch" in on one honest mistake that "Overwatch" developer Blizzard Entertainment made while creating the Dorado map.
"Overwatch" is known to take inspiration from what the real world looks like and translates it to something that represents the future. As for the Dorado map, the game calls it a town in the east coast of Mexico. However, in the process of making it, Kaplan's team mistakenly took inspiration from an image of another city located in a different continent.
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During his speech, Kaplan shared, "Being the utmost, top researchers in the industry, we went to Google Images and typed in--this is literally like, you can type this in right now on your phone if you want--'colorful Mexican town' is what we typed in."
Kaplan continued to narrate that from there, they started scanning through the thumbnails that appeared on the search results until they found the image that's "exactly the version of Mexico" the developers had in mind for the game.
During his talk, Kaplan reportedly shared what was the exact wrong photo they chose as an inspiration which he described as "gorgeous, this coastal, seaside town."
The game director admitted that he did not realize the mistake until after two months since the Dorado map was completed. That time, someone he knew asked him, "Why did you use Manarola, Italy as your reference for your Mexico map?"
Kaplan went on to explain that this incident is exactly what represents their vision for "Overwatch." He added, "Overwatch is much more about what we hope the world would sort of be."
On other news, "Overwatch" won big at the D.I.C.E. Summit 2017 as it garnered the "Game of the Year," "Outstanding Achievement in Game Design," "Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay," and the "Action Game of the Year" awards.
