{"id":112536,"date":"2020-05-06T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/362461"},"modified":"2020-05-06T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:41:00","slug":"have-a-look-at-this-pitch-footage-for-a-canned-prince-of-persia-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/06\/have-a-look-at-this-pitch-footage-for-a-canned-prince-of-persia-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a look at this pitch footage for a canned Prince of Persia game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nHbRCd8yzaw\">YouTube video<\/a> titled &#8220;<em>Prince of Persia&nbsp;<\/em>Redemption&#8221; is getting some attention today after a number of devs confirmed it&#8217;s target footage for a&nbsp;<em>Prince of Persia&nbsp;<\/em>game that was cancelled before release.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s intriguing about this footage, which shows&nbsp;an upload date of 2012, is the fact that former Ubisoft Montreal animation director Jonathan Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameAnim\/status\/1258056884088520705\">took to Twitter<\/a> today to confirm that the footage is real; the pitch video&nbsp;looked so much like real gameplay, in fact, that it inspired the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GameAnim\/status\/1112436381106634752\">2010 pitch video<\/a> for&nbsp;<em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amazing work from animation director Khai Nguyen (<em>For Honor<\/em>) and team,&#8221; reads an excerpt of Cooper&#8217;s statement. &#8220;This target game footage (pre-rendered game pitch) inspired our own pitch for <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed 3<\/em> as they did such a great job making it look like real gameplay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s yet unclear why this&nbsp;<em>Prince of Persia&nbsp;<\/em>was cancelled, or how the footage got on YouTube; the account hosting it appears to be independent, and <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/that-prince-of-persia-redemption-footage-came-from-a-re-1843292945\">Kotaku points out<\/a> that a comment posted to the video two years ago by someone who appears to be&nbsp;Ubisoft Montreal&#8217;s&nbsp;Marc-Andr\u00e9 Belleau&nbsp;reads &#8220;Where did you get that?!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/have-a-look-at-this-pitch-footage-for-a-canned-prince-of-persia-game.jpg\" width=\"646\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A YouTube video titled &#8220;Prince of Persia&nbsp;Redemption&#8221; is getting some attention today after a number of devs confirmed it&#8217;s target footage for a&nbsp;Prince of Persia&nbsp;game that was cancelled before release. What&#8217;s intriguing about this footage, which shows&nbsp;an upload date of 2012, is the fact that former Ubisoft Montreal animation director Jonathan Cooper took to Twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}