The former creative director of one of gaming’s most influential stealth franchises, Splinter Cell, has suggested that advancements in lighting and shadow have made it more difficult than ever for the fans \u2014 and creators \u2014 of the genre.<\/p>\n
In an interview with FRVR, Clint Hocking, who was creative director of 2005’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, talked candidly about how the more sophisticated development methods actually make it harder to create the shadows needed for stealth games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually think one of the difficulties with modern stealth games is that the sophistication in the rendering has made lighting so much more realistic,\u201d Hocking said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you think about those old school stealth games because of their baked lighting, the lighting is very clean and readable and very understandable for the player,\u201d he added. \u201cBut once you get into this diffuse and ambient occlusion and all of the stuff that comes with it, it gets very hard to tell what\u2019s light, what\u2019s shadow, what\u2019s dark, what\u2019s safe, what\u2019s dangerous and all of that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
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