I’ve been thinking about maps a lot recently, probably because I’ve been reading The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, in which various real authors explore the maps of books they grew up with, as well as those from their own books. Then, I started playing Carto, a cutie indie puzzle game where the player is able to alter the world around them by literally rearranging fragments of a map. This got me thinking about video game maps in general – what are my favourite video game maps, and what makes a good video game map, anyway? The perfect…