Minimap & World Map

Build the two map surfaces of a game — the HUD minimap and the full-screen world map — over one shared data core, with the cartography rendering tech underneath and the cross-genre UX choices around it. References: Genshin Impact (the richest shipped open-world map), Zelda BotW/TotK (the most elegant pipeline), Mapbox (tiling/SDF tech), and the genre canon (StarCraft, LoL, CoD, Far Cry 2, Ghost of Tsushima, Elden Ring, Subnautica). Excluded (separate skills): the quest tracker HUD (hud-system), the unlock data model and teleport sequence (teleport-map-unlock), streaming mechanics (open-world-streaming).

The two architecture rules