Fan Makes Solar Eclipse Map in Style of Red Dead Redemption

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Maps are a core but often overlooked aspect of game design. Games with any sort of exploration will often include a map for the player to help get their bearings on where they are and where they have to go next. These maps are most helpful in massive open world games like Red Dead Redemption 2, as players could easily get lost without one. Although some games like Dark Souls and Bloodborne purposely leave the player without a map in order to encourage more cautious exploration.

Maps can also reveal a lot about the game itself. Red Dead Redemption 2 has an old-fashioned in-game map designed in a style that is suitable for the era the game is set in. The player character, Arthur Morgan, will even draw on points of interest that the player comes across in the game's open world.

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The era specific detailing of Red Dead Redemption 2’s map has inspired a cartographer on Reddit named patrickmcgranaghan to create multiple maps of real-world locations in the style of RDR2’s map. Their latest RDR2 inspired map depicts the path of a solar eclipse that is scheduled to happen over Texas in 2024. The map is a faithful depiction of Texas and its surrounding states that is done using Red Dead Redemption 2’s various distinctive fonts and color schemes. The Reddit user then shows clearly where the path of totality falls across the state which is where the solar eclipse will be visible from.

Patrickmcgranaghan’s map would look right at home in Red Dead Redemption 2’s map screen. The map is also especially suitable since Red Dead Redemption 2's world is a compressed amalgamation of areas from the southern United States, and many of these locations can be seen