Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth games: "it gets very hard to tell what’s light, what’s shadow, what’s dark, what’s safe"
Designer Clint Hocking believes that realistic modern lighting has made stealth games harder to develop and play. He argues that the sophisticated rendering and diffusion in current games obscure the clear distinctions between light and shadow that were present in older, "baked lighting" titles. Hocking, who has worked on games like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, suggests that developers need to rethink how they communicate visibility to players in modern titles.
- Entities
- Game: Hitman
- Topic: Stealth Games
- Game: Splinter Cell
- Topic: Ray Tracing
- Game: Watch Dogs: Legion
- Company: Build Machine Games
- Game: Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe
- Topic: Lighting Technology
- Topic: Game Development
- Game: Thief
- Person: Clint Hocking
- Game: Assassin's Creed III
- Game: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
- Game: Far Cry 2
- Game: Mark of the Ninja Remastered
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