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There are different game maps: rectangular, circular (leaving the left side brings you back on the right), circular with dynamic links, generated...and the combination of these
As for the loading - background loading is an old trick, I had games on C64 using it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Well, yeah, I suspect They automatically generate a simplified world mad and always have the 8 neighboring maps preloaded in the background...
I just wondered.. if there is more to it.. otherwise why did it take them so long for this to be the norm?
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There is no norm when you create a game (except to acceptable response time), all type of map creation has it advantages and disadvantages, and you should chose the best for you...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It requires rolling a 6 , but with faster computers now, they can roll much more frequently than in days past, so you don't generally see as much delay.
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If the question is rhetorical, then why have people answered it?
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Well, rhetorical it might be, but people still can have an opinion! 
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Well, I worked in games dev for many years, and as someone mentioned, there are loads of ways to approach this.
The main concepts are "level of detail", which you kind of hinted at, and techniques like SOAR, projective grids etc. The Virtual Terrain Project[^] has loads of resources if you want to dig more into them.
Another commonly used technique is predictive loading, i.e. trying to stay ahead of the player in loading the environment, but that applies more in enclosed environments, and isn't easy to do in large open one.
Days spent at sea are not deducted from one's alloted span - Phoenician proverb
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I'm not sure which desktop manager (Unity I think) I logged into Ubuntu with the other day but I needed to search for some files. There was no way to do it. No menu item, nothing. A quick google search gave me lots of articles of how to find files using command lines. No thanks. I finally logged back in using a different desktop manager and it was in the File menu under "Go."
Microsoft may be far from perfect but I don't see any alternative that is anywhere close to as good as Microsoft. And I've been able to have a good career because of Microsoft and don't see any reason why that won't continue.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If you do not like a command line, you will not like 'nix. There's probably some open-source UI you could download as a shell for that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If you do not like a command line
I think I stopped liking command line somewhere around the year 2000. And it took me longer than most people. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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GUIs are good for a few specific things, but CLIs are better at everything else.
![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif) OpenVMS rules!
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Whenever I am forced to use Linux I always head straight to the CLI. It is the only constant in a murky world of indifferent guis.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I am always happy to see someone praise OpenVMS, not to mention things like VAXset, which was very powerful in its day.
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No fan of PowerShell either I presume? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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12 Kb volume - that would be your backup device?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It is not a screenshot of mine - just one I found on the internet to demonstrate...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Just click on the folder icon, then enter a search. Or better yet open a terminal and use "find", which is much more capable than anything else.
I never trust searching files in Windows as it utilized plugins for various file types, and if there is no plugin, it sometimes refuses to search inside the file.
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Lemme get this straight:
1. You're a programmer
2. You've found a shortfall in linux
3. Instead of spending an hour making a front-end for Find (let's face it: it'd be a piece of piss; it's just that no-one has done it, yet), you'd rather bitch about it and let microsoft pwn your machines.
What the linux community is missing is windows developers, who could turn it into something so much better.
Unless major changes happen, windows is a lost cause, because the average windows users (very much including the "I don't know much about computers"ones) do not want to be treated as mindless apple fanbois are, so get with a program that will make things better -- either by kicking ms' @rse to get it to toe the line, or by helping provide an alternative.
And something to consider is that if you stick with windows, you could miss out on a HUGE market, in the future.
Posted from one of my five -- it was six, but a failing power supply took one out, over the week-end -- windows machines (which, like three of the others, is dual boot with linux distros)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Instead of spending an hour making a front-end for Find
You flatter me. 
You can also make a find in Windows or anything else you want in Windows as well. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: ou can also make a find in Windows
It's been done.
Do something new and original.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What the linux community is missing is windows developers
Can't imagine why that would be!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Could be because windows developers, who already know the things that linux developers need to learn, aren't willing to leap into a new environment.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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