The mystery of GTA 3's three moons has finally been solved by an ex-Rockstar dev
The moon changes size when you shoot it, but at least it's not haunted
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(Image credit: Obbe Vermeij via Twitter)
An ex-Rockstar developer has finally revealed why the moon changes size in GTA 3.
The moon in GTA 3 actually changes size whenever the player shoots it with a sniper rifle. This was always one of the weirder things about Rockstar’s classic, and up until now, no one’s known why this was actually a feature in the game.
All that changed earlier today, when Obbe Vermeij, a former developer at Rockstar North, revealed how it came to be. In the post on Twitter below, Vermeij revealed that two fellow Rockstar developers wanted him to make his original design of the moon smaller, while two other developers wanted him to make it bigger.
The artists gave me a texture for the moon in gta3.I placed the moon in the sky, made sure it was visible at night and that it was a reasonable size.A few days later 4 artists were at my desk asking me to …
