Hellblade dev sets the bar for new-gen realism – at the top of an impossibly detailed staircase
Project Mara behind-the-scenes video shows Ninja Theory making "the most realistic 🐟video game staircase ever"

Hellblade developer Ninja Theory has released a behind-the-scenes video for its upcoming horror game 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Project Mara, and it centers around the development of a💫n impossibly realistic in-game staircase.
To be clear, the clip is more about creating the most realistic-looking staircase from a performance standpoint; that is, the movement of the characters walking up and down the stairs as well as the physics of a staircase under the weight of actual people. Regardless, the staircase - and hell, the whole dang apartment - looks incredible from a purely graphical standpoint too. Ninja Theory dove further into that side of the visuals in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:an impressive trailer from January.
"After building a hyper-realistic apartment in-engine for Project Mara, we recreated part of the main staircase inch by inch in our studio," reads the video captions. "By pairing this accurately measured set w🍨ith our virtual production stage, we can capture the most realistic and believable performance possible."
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Creating a real-life replica staircase modeled closely after the in-game one, and then mo-capping actors walking up and down it, certainly seems like going above and beyond, but it's no easy task making "the most realistic video game staircase ever." If the developers are going to these lengths just fo♌r a simple set of apartment stairs, one can only imagine how complex the development process gets in bigger, more action-heavy sequences.
Ninja Theory was acquired by 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Game Studios in 2018, and it's prepping to release Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2 as a new-gen exclusive for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Series X/S and PC. Project Mara, the studio's new experimental horror game, was revealed alongside this cryptic back in January 2020. Both games are without re𝓀lease dates for now,🧸 but expect Hellblade 2 to launch ahead of Project Mara.
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