{"id":76652,"date":"2019-01-18T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/334723"},"modified":"2019-01-18T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T23:34:00","slug":"video-the-highs-and-lows-of-hitmans-episodic-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/18\/video-the-highs-and-lows-of-hitmans-episodic-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: The highs and lows of Hitman&#8217;s episodic release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2016 GDC Europe talk, Io Interactive&#8217;s Hannes Seifert shares the highs and lows of transforming <em>Hitman<\/em> into an episodic release title.<\/p>\n<p>Siefert will share the risks and challenges\u00a0pushing their art form forward, the required change of mind, the tremendous excitement and involvement of players, as well as the conservatism of self-proclaimed keepers of the status quo.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0was an insightful talk that&#8217;s definitely still worth watching, so developers\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t miss the\u00a0opportunity to do so now that it&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d__EiDbhFa4\">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><em><strong>Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent company Informa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2016 GDC Europe talk, Io Interactive&#8217;s Hannes Seifert shares the highs and lows of transforming Hitman into an episodic release title. Siefert will share the risks and challenges\u00a0pushing their art form forward, the required change of mind, the tremendous excitement and involvement of players, as well as the conservatism of self-proclaimed keepers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76652","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\/76652","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=76652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}