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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Designing Cities Dreamy and Mundane

A behind the scenes look at the design logic guiding my approach to the twin cities of the forthcoming Dream City Knights TTRPG by Edge of…

4 min readApr 12, 2024

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Designing Cities Dreamy and Mundane

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Ten Tips For A Better Game City

Some super-condensed city building advice for video game designers and world-builders.

5 min readMar 13, 2024

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Ten Tips For A Better Game City

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

A Game Urbanism Bibliography

A list of book suggestions on the design of video game cities, urban world-building, and game urbanism. [updated: 2nd of April, 2024]

3 min readFeb 22, 2024

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A Game Urbanism Bibliography

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Game Cities: Urban anchors & virtual flows

How to guide crowds of players through your virtual (MMO) city.

5 min readFeb 2, 2024

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Game Cities: Urban anchors & virtual flows

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Designing The City of Glass

The design secrets of Mirror’s Edge Catalyst’s massive City of Glass.

9 min readJan 11, 2024

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Designing The City of Glass

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Exploring the towns of Monkey Island

Towns and settlements have long been key to the Monkey Island series’ storytelling. Series artists and designers help us find out more.

12 min readJan 4, 2024

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Exploring the towns of Monkey Island

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Exploring the pirate town of Mêlée Island

(This article originally appeared in Wireframe #43 pp.48–49, and has been slightly edited here.)

4 min readSep 27, 2022

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Exploring the pirate town of Mêlée Island

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Woodtick: The Piratey Town of Monkey Island 2

This is an excerpt from Virtual Cities: An Atlas & Exploration of Video Game Cities. You can find out more about the book here.

4 min readJul 12, 2022

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Woodtick: The Piratey Town of Monkey Island 2

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Virtual Cities: A Look At Rubacava

[An excerpt from the forthcoming Virtual Cities atlas of video game cities by game urbanist Konstantinos Dimopoulos, and artist Maria…

5 min readJan 9, 2019

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Virtual Cities: A Look At Rubacava

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Game Cities: Those Handy, Simplified Urban Structures

Very few cities are ever built from scratch. What we experience when walking through New York, visiting Beijing, exploring Rome, or living…

6 min readJan 9, 2018

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Game Cities: Those Handy, Simplified Urban Structures

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Game urbanist, city planner, game designer, educator and occasional writer, with a PhD in urban planning & geography. Personal site: www.game-cities.com

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