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What was the name of the slum that was inspiration..

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beanerman_99
beanerman_99
Wilds Pathfinder
• #1
I am trying to remember the name and location of the slum that Anet used as its inspiration for the City in Cantha...does anyone remember?
Thanks
Kayelyyb
Kayelyyb
Frost Gate Guardian
• #2
if i were to guess Calcutta india aka the black hole of calcutta.
Kattar
Kattar
EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING
• #3
Um...China? India? Anywhere in Southeast Asia perhaps?

No offense to any Asians, I don't intend any, but I'm not aware of any specific place it's modeled after.
zelgadissan
zelgadissan
Forge Runner
• #4
I just flipped through my Collector's Edition Factions box and didn't come up with anything.

I'm with Katsumi - unless some dev specifically answered a question like that in their talk, I'd guess it's just a generic Asian design.
Painbringer
Painbringer
Furnace Stoker
• #5
Shanty town in southern Johannesburg………Wait a minute that sounds like a song
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idahoajr
Ascalonian Squire
• #6
well not calcutta since thats pretty clean compared to mumbai its idea is like any huge asian city, but it much more chinese style over there than indian
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shillo
Academy Page
• #8
From the Daniel Dociu's interview:

http://www.guildwars.com/events/pres...09-danield.php

Quote:
"Rooftops" (one of the winning entries at the "Into the Pixel" digital art show at E3 2006) and "Urban Canal" (Master Award: Best Cityscape—Expose 4) were inspired by the Kowloon Walled City, the most densely populated place on Earth until it was demolished in the early nineties. Fifty thousand people inhabited a few square blocks of the most bizarre yet fascinating architectural structures, a miracle of human survival, self-governing, and coexistence. I would like to revisit this concept and do it justice as gaming platforms will soon be capable of handling that amount of 3D geometry.
pamelf
pamelf
Forge Runner
• #9
Wow, fascinating. It's a shame that place had to be torn down. I understand the reasoning for it, but it would be great to have historically preserved it.

Found some cool pics here: shows life in it.
http://karinochow.blogspot.com/2008/...on-walled.html

I don't think I'll look at Cantha the same way again.
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Zan Usi Quan
Lion's Arch Merchant
• #10
that's actually very interesting, thanks nightow and shillo!
zelgadissan
zelgadissan
Forge Runner
• #11
Wow, I stand corrected. Cool stuff.

Glad I didn't live there.
Kattar
Kattar
EXCESSIVE FLUTTERCUSSING
• #12
Heh, me too, but I'm ok with it.

You can really see where the inspiration came from with those pictures...it's amazing.
Nightow
Nightow
Forge Runner
• #14
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Originally Posted by beanerman_99
YES that is the one. Thanks!
You're welcome. All it really took was some patience and wiki-fu to look it up.
Hannes
Hannes
Frost Gate Guardian
• #15
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Originally Posted by Painbringer
Shanty town in southern Johannesburg………Wait a minute that sounds like a song
Dude... Jo'burg looks WAY WORSE bwhahaha!
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Dante the Warlord
Desert Nomad
• #16
At first glance I thought that was a garbage dump...
beanerman_99
beanerman_99
Wilds Pathfinder
• #17
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Originally Posted by Nightow
You're welcome. All it really took was some patience and wiki-fu to look it up.
I know...I was at work when I posted. The doctor I work for and I was talking about his visit to China and how dirty the non-tourists areas were. I couldn't remember where Kowloon was. I thought China but forgot it was on Hong Kong. Thanks again!