{"id":136196,"date":"2021-09-08T09:36:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T08:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=136196"},"modified":"2022-12-13T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T20:42:33","slug":"hellblade-2-developers-set-fire-to-things-in-the-name-of-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/uncategorized\/hellblade-2-developers-set-fire-to-things-in-the-name-of-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellblade 2 Developers Set Fire to Things in the Name of Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>To achieve the highest possible level of detail in their upcoming game, the developers of Hellblade 2, Ninja Theory, have gone into practice.\u00a0A short behind-the-scenes video posted to the company&#8217;s official Twitter account shows Hellblade 2 team members setting fire to what appears to be part of Senua&#8217;s clothing, with the caption, &#8220;Sometimes you have to destroy to create.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As a follow-up tweet suggests, this is done in order to take high-quality photographs of clothing to use as a reference when creating in-game assets.\u00a0\u201cIt is these high quality scans that will help us achieve amazing levels of detail in our games,\u201d reads the tweet, along with a photograph of a scan of clothing showing all the wrinkles and burn marks on the material.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sometimes to create, you must first destroy &#x1f525;<\/p>\n<p>Experimenting with textural effects on clothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a90eRM54ac\">pic.twitter.com\/a90eRM54ac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ninja Theory (@NinjaTheory) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NinjaTheory\/status\/1434890458845663237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 6, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span>The studio&#8217;s Twitter account is full of such short development details, as is the profile of Melina Gergens, who is responsible for bringing Senua to life.\u00a0Earlier, Gergens shared a short video of her presence at the costume scan in Ninja Theory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite being announced at E3 2019, Ninja Theory reports that Senua&#8217;s Saga: Hellblade 2 still hasn&#8217;t gone into &#8220;full production&#8221; as of July 2021.\u00a0According to studio founder Tamim Antoniades, Hellblade was a very special game for the studio, so &#8220;the team wanted to do something special and that&#8217;s why we make our life as difficult as possible in this endeavor.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To achieve the highest possible level of detail in their upcoming game, the developers of Hellblade 2, Ninja Theory, have gone into practice.\u00a0A short behind-the-scenes video posted to the company&#8217;s official Twitter account shows Hellblade 2 team members setting fire to what appears to be part of Senua&#8217;s clothing, with the caption, &#8220;Sometimes you have [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/uncategorized\/hellblade-2-developers-set-fire-to-things-in-the-name-of-research\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":136197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1],"tags":[779],"class_list":{"0":"post-136196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"tag-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}