{"id":69992,"date":"2018-12-19T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=107686"},"modified":"2018-12-19T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T14:00:24","slug":"10-things-you-didnt-know-about-hellblade-senuas-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-hellblade-senuas-sacrifice\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Hellblade: Senua\u2019s Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hellblade: Senua\u2019s Sacrifice<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is the journey of a broken Celtic warrior on a vision quest to save the soul of her\u00a0dead lover from Viking Hell. Hellblade<\/em> was developed and published independently by a small team with a limited budget. As such, our developers had to adopt a more creative approach to problem-solving and making Hellblade<\/em> how the way we envisioned it.<\/p>\n

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  1. The award-winning actor who plays Senua in Hellblade<\/em> wasn\u2019t originally an actor at all. She was Ninja Theory\u2019s Video Editor who was used as a stand-in for technical tests. In her first ever acting role, Melina Juergens went on to win a BAFTA for Best Performance!<\/li>\n
  2. Senua\u2019s guide in Hellblade<\/em> is an old scholar called Druth. The skull he wears on his head was a real animal skull found by Creative Director Tameem Antoniades when walking his dog.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    1. When Senua hears a chorus of voices in the Sea of Corpses area, these are actually the voices of the entire Ninja Theory team \u2013 recorded during a company meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      1. A couple of team members created a Hellblade<\/em> kart racing mode. It never made it into the game (for obvious reasons) and the only remaining trace of it is this .gif:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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        1. To make Senua\u2019s costume look battle worn, one of our artists let his dog rough up our material samples before they were scanned and turned into in-game textures.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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          1. Melina Juergens played the role of Senua, but her combat was performed in mo-cap by Chloe Bruce, Daisy Ridley\u2019s stunt double from \u201cStar Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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            1. Ninja Theory has a development team of around 100 people, but Hellblade<\/em> was created by a small team of just 20 people.<\/li>\n
            2. With a small budget, Ninja Theory couldn\u2019t afford to go and shoot performance capture for Hellblade<\/em>\u2019s cinematic scenes. Instead, they converted their boardroom into a makeshift performance capture space using a variety of materials including wardrobe poles.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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              1. After the release of Hellblade<\/em>, the team created an Accolades Trailer. Rather than including impressive quotes from press reviews in the trailer like most games do, the Hellblade<\/em> trailer was created from fan screenshots and touching messages received from fans.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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                1. Senua\u2019s blue war paint was actually a cheap supermarket face pack applied to Melina before being scanned and transformed onto a digital character.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                  Thank you for reading, and remember that Hellblade: Senua\u2019s Sacrifice<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is available now on Xbox One and with Xbox Game Pass. For more development stories, news, and updates you can follow us on Twitter @NinjaTheory<\/a>, Instagram @OfficialNinjaTheory<\/a>, and Facebook @NinjaTheory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                  Hellblade: Senua\u2019s Sacrifice is the journey of a broken Celtic warrior on a vision quest to save the soul of her\u00a0dead lover from Viking Hell. Hellblade was developed and published independently by a small team with a limited budget. As such, our developers had to adopt a more creative approach to problem-solving and making Hellblade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69992","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=69992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}