A Utah man's idea to build Rexburg in a popular video game is in the works.
REXBURG, Idaho — A Utahn's idea to build Rexburg in a popular video game is in the works.
The map — which is roughly 25% complete — got underway last summer and so far, roughly 300 hours have been put into it. Their server has 800 community members from around the world and 80 builders. Of the 80 builders, six of them are assigned to the Rexburg project. "I proposed this to our server administrators and they said, 'Yeah, it's great,'" Whiffen recalled. "This map has actually been the most popular map on our server of 800 people because it's new and different. Most people have been working on giant cities."
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