Project Shadowglass channels Thief, Deus Ex and System Shock while dunking on generative AI

Pixels similar your Macintosh Performa utilized to bake

It is clip to erstwhile again desecrate the much-pillaged tomb of Looking Glass Studios and person it distant with the materials for a caller acheronian phantasy immersive sim. Starhelm Studios person announced Project Shadowglass, a purebred first-person Thief-like with a light-shadow system, lockpicking, pickpocketing, noisy oregon quieter walkable surfaces, magical traps, heist readying and jailbreaks.

Lead developer Dominick John is 1 of the 2 radical down Youtube euphony parody outfit Space Bards, but it doesn't dependable similar you'll beryllium singing overmuch successful Project Shadowglass. Not unless you truly bask getting caught. Or are large astatine ventriloquy. Has an imsim allowed you to distract radical utilizing ventriloquy yet? Maybe adjacent time.

Project Shadowglass is making waves partially due to the fact that the announcement teaser beneath is simply a dunk connected generative AI. Long communicative short: a period oregon 2 ago, immoderate clever custard posted a generated gif of a rustic phantasy crippled mock-up, with a torch-wielding subordinate trotting down a vale towards a gigantic castle. The representation earned viral acclaim from the AIdvocates and scornful quote-tweets from the detrAIctors. Speaking arsenic a precise long-winded detrAIctor, my lone takeaway from the generated mock-up is that much games should person cloud-piercing, Maleficent-worthy citadels successful them, portion doing simple things with perspective.

The Project Shadowglass teaser references the mock-up successful the opening seconds, and alludes to it connected the authoritative site. It's weirdly clap-back for a task whose "360 grade pixelart" tech has seemingly been connected the boil for years. "Everything you spot is 100% existent and moving realtime in-engine," reads the blurb. "It whitethorn look akin to those beauteous pixel creation AI videos, but this is the playable existent deal. No contented oregon creation featured successful Project Shadowglass volition beryllium AI generated."

If I were being a stinkpot, I'd entity that Project Shadowglass's wistfully corrugated graphic are channelling the aforesaid mouldy nostalgia that enables overmuch genAI culture. GenAI is inherently reactionary and regurgitative, aft all, and galore emerging genAI creators person recovered an assemblage by targeting well-known aesthetics. Project Shadowglass conscionable isn't consuming arsenic overmuch energy to bash it, pixel for pixel, oregon filching anybody's creation successful the process - Starhelm person credited the makers of each the unfastened root originative commons assets utilized successful the teaser.

As you'd expect from the pixelart direction, this appears to beryllium a no-frills emotion missive to the genre, blending ideas from Thief, Deus Ex and Shock. Your tactics and techniques includes dousing torches, hiding bodies and memorising patrol routes. There's a persistent metropolis situation successful which you tin physique a estimation arsenic a murderer, causing the regular civvies to fly from you connected sight. You'll get to probe and program heists, possibly acquiring caller gear, crafting recipes oregon components earlier committing to the robbery.

It seems progression-light. "You are nary leader with powers," explains the Steam page. "Instead, you indispensable trust solely connected improving your ain readying and skill." Needless to say, hand-to-hand combat is discouraged, arsenic is falling disconnected precocious objects.

Some communicative blurb to finish: "In a lush, dark, and oppressive seaside kingdom, the richest nobles person fallen successful enactment with a caller king promising them more. The mediocre turn poorer, the affluent turn richer. The claustrophobic metropolis has been gathering much walls to support them retired from wherever they don't belong. Higher towers to not perceive them, odor them, but ever support an oculus connected them. But they didn't relationship for you."

I'd archer you erstwhile you tin play it, but sadly, immoderate feline burglar has snuck successful and absconded with the ciphered enactment containing the merchandise date. They person near the derisive calling paper "to beryllium announced".