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We haven’t heard much about Ninja Theory’s “metal terror” experience project: Mara since its unveiling early last year, but now the Hellblade and Enslaved studios have offered a fresh look, focusing on Mara’s meticulous rendering. environments, as part of its latest developer. video.
Previously, Ninja Theory Project: Mara was described as an “experimental title exploring new ways of storytelling” built around a ‘real and grounded representation of spiritual terror’. The goal is to “recreate the horrors of the mind as accurately and realistically as possible” using real-life experience reports and in-depth research.
In his new development video, Tameem Antoniades, creative director of Ninja Theory, outlines some of the processes the studio follows to capture the sense of realism for Project: Mara and deliver an experience that is “not like a game” and does not feel like a movie [but is] something completely different “.
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Antoniades says the studio is trying to ‘do a lot of things’ [it’s] never before attempted “, especially in his efforts to” obsessively capture reality “. More specifically, the art team is focused on recreating Project: Mara’s environments – based on a real real apartment – as perfectly as possible, in order to capture its material, scan its geometry, and create procedural tools to compile Ninja’s theory’s “most ambitious and realistic gameplay ever”.
This work, according to Antoniades, is a shift for the developer in the way it creates art. “Artists are not there to just create an object,” he says, “they are there to create systems that can create that object and infinite variations of the object.” This is an approach that ‘lays the foundation for all our projects in the studio and all our future projects’.
There is a lot of footage comparing Project: Mara’s digital apartment to its real counterpart, should you see the end results in the studio’s latest video.
Project: Mara, which still remains something of a mystery as its initial preview and today’s update, is just one of several projects known to be evolving with the ninja theory owned by Microsoft. Others include The Insight Project (described as an “ambitious combination of technology, game design, and clinical neuroscience put together with the goal of generating strategies to alleviate mental distress”) and Sua: Hellblade 2 by Senua.