{"id":93391,"date":"2019-05-10T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/342460"},"modified":"2019-05-10T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:35:00","slug":"sony-releases-documentary-detailing-god-of-wars-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/10\/sony-releases-documentary-detailing-god-of-wars-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony releases documentary detailing God of War&#8217;s development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has released a two-hour-long documentary on the development of Sony Santa Monica\u2019s <em>God of War<\/em>, offering developers an in-depth look at the creation of the 2018 release.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJZWKBDXXFY&amp;sf212453649=1\">Raising Kratos<\/a>, was announced back in April and aims to chronicle the lives of the developers making the game as much as it does the effort to reinvent an established and iconic series.<\/p>\n<p>The development of <em>God of War <\/em>took around five years, and the documentary covering that effort took nearly three years of production. It started as over 400 hours of footage, and has now been cut down into a two-hour-long reflection on that journey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ultimate goal was to go beyond a \u2018making of\u2019 piece and dig deeper into the experiences of those who spend relentless time and effort into making something great,\u201d explains the PlayStation Blog <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2019\/04\/20\/announcing-raising-kratos-a-god-of-war-documentary\/\">post<\/a> announcing the film earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll creative endeavors, especially those of this magnitude, require an incredible amount of dedication and focus that constantly toe the fine line that separates both success and failure. The hope is that once people see the experience of Santa Monica Studio unfold on the screen, they will recognize the undying passion for their work and the incredible respect they have for their craft.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has released a two-hour-long documentary on the development of Sony Santa Monica\u2019s God of War, offering developers an in-depth look at the creation of the 2018 release. The documentary, called Raising Kratos, was announced back in April and aims to chronicle the lives of the developers making the game as much as it does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93391","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\/93391","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=93391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}