{"id":31005,"date":"2018-07-06T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/321545"},"modified":"2018-07-06T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:21:00","slug":"video-the-unique-development-challenges-of-mark-of-the-ninja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/06\/video-the-unique-development-challenges-of-mark-of-the-ninja\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The unique development challenges of Mark of the Ninja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2013\u00a0talk, Klei&#8217;s Jeff Agala\u00a0and\u00a0Jamie Cheng discuss how the <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em> team expanded and arose\u00a0to meet the game&#8217;s unique development challenges, delivered a great game, and did it without destroying themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Agala and the team discuss how <em>Mark of the Ninja<\/em>\u00a0was, without question, Klei Entertainment&#8217;s most ambitious game. The art, technology, design, and audio domains were challenged in ways they had never been challenged before.<\/p>\n<p>The team managed to build the game in 16 months without significant overtime,\u00a0to a level of quality they were\u00a0proud of, <em>all<\/em>\u00a0while staying sane.<\/p>\n<p>It was an informative talk that&#8217;s definitely\u00a0worth watching,\u00a0so developers shouldn&#8217;t miss the\u00a0opportunity to do so now that it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A7ejh3YUbac\">freely available on the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/contact_us.php\">contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2013\u00a0talk, Klei&#8217;s Jeff Agala\u00a0and\u00a0Jamie Cheng discuss how the Mark of the Ninja team expanded and arose\u00a0to meet the game&#8217;s unique development challenges, delivered a great game, and did it without destroying themselves. Agala and the team discuss how Mark of the Ninja\u00a0was, without question, Klei Entertainment&#8217;s most ambitious game. The art, technology, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31005","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\/31005","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=31005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}