Update: Game developers across the industry continue to share footage and screenshots from their own early, in-progress builds and projects to show how normal the leaked GTA 6 footage really is – and to shut down a hilariously wrong and now heavily-memed remark about g🦄raphics coming first in development. 

Jeph Pérez of Sea of Thieves developer Rare shared a video from a November 2014 build to highlight the "agile, iterative♓ testing" that the game was seeing at the time. It's a blocky pastiche of the polished pirate adventure we know today, and this was after the build was upgraded from the "pill pirate" character models emblematic of the Unity engine's default assets.

Pérez's clip with his own sentiments. "I wish the industry would be more proud to show that side of [development]," he said, calling the wave of build showcases one of the few good things to come "from the recent topic of leak cul♉ture and how destructive it is."

Sam Barlow, the lead on the newly released Immortality, chimed in with his own before-and-after, showing how the game looked for its first two years while the team at Half Mermaid "were focused on getting the AI shipped and combat gameplay balanced." (Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Immortality review to find out how this trippy, beautiful st🌌ory comes together). This is one of the starkest examples yet, and it hammers home just how secondary graphics can be. It also sums up one of t🎉he key arguments behind this conversation: you can't, or at least shouldn't, spend time polishing a game that isn't built and balanced yet.

Breakout indie darling Cult of ౠthe Lamb got in on the conversation too, with developer Massive Monsters posting some familiar-looking but rough ve🧸rsions of the game. 

Likewise, Brace Yourself Games, perhaps best known for Crypt of the Necrodancer and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Zelda crossover Cadence of Hyrule, shareꦅd the amusing placeholders once used in Rift of the Necrodancer's yoga minigame.  

Bungie senior game designer even dug up an old personal project to demonstrate that "gam🧔es look really rough for a long time before they staꦺrt looking great." Meanwhile, Knockout City developer Velan Studios shared a draft of one of the game's multiplayer maps, proudly reveling in all its untextured glory. 

Animator Robert Morrison from Studio Bend also shared a ꦆclip of an untextured sequence from 2018's God of War, which still looks impressively fluid for how blobby everything is. 

Similarly, co-game director Kurt Margenau of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Naughty Dog reposted a blockmesh version of Uncharted 4's iconic street chase sequ🦩en🦹ce, offering a helpful side-by-side look at how projects evolve graphically throughout development.  

Solo Japanese developer Nama Takahashi also pounced on the trend to share a stark before-and-after of ElecHead, an electrified puzzle game previously announced at a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:May Nintendo Indie World showcase. 

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A Control developer has shared in-progress footage from the beginning o𝕴f the game's development.

In response to a Twitter debate over the past weekend which, if we're being completely honest, is too silly to waste words on here, Control developer Paul Ehreth took to Twitter to show off what an actual game looks like early o☂n. In the tweet below, we can see very early in-progress footage of protagonist Jessie Fayden running about, taking cover, 💞and returning fire at enemy troops.

The footage also shows Jessie picking up objects from the surrounding envi🔜ronment, a staple of Control's action-packed combat, before hurling them at the enemy troops. As Ehreth rightly points out,💖 this is the same game that would be go on to win numerous awards for excellence in graphics, not to mention overall Game of the Year awards from outlets and pundits.

Avoiding the Twitter debacle which brought this tweet about, we can instead pivot to the recent 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 leaks. After over 90 videos of♌ in-progress footage of Rockstar's sequel leaked online, some social media use🌺rs were left somewhat surprised at the rough, in-progress state of the game as it continues through development.

Ehreth's tweet is aimed at educating social media users, showing them that yes, a stellar big-budget game really does look rough in the early goings of the overall development cycle. In fact, it's not just Ehreth that's publish🐽ed early footage with the aim of educat🌠ing users - Naughty Dog director Kurt Margenau has always drawn attention to some very early in-progress footage of Uncharted 4, seen below.

As for the GTA 6 leaks however, Rockstar confirmed their legitimacy shortly after the leak took place over the past weekend. The developer wrote that it was "澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:extremely disappointed," in the leaked footage, but elsewhere around the industry, Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us devs have come together to voicꦬe ⛦support for Rockstar developers who have had their work leaked online. 

Here's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:why you should ignore the GTA 6, because the final reveal from Rockstar will be worth the lengthy wait.