In the concept phase of the project, I worked with a small team to harvest and catalogue all our ideas about what Far Cry 2 could be, and then sorted through them to aggregate the concepts that seemed to work best. 'This creative empowerment took a number of forms over the course of the project. Far Cry 2’s team reached that state more successfully than any other I’ve worked with. 'As creative director, my job is not to create the game, but to get the most creativity out of an entire team by empowering people to work in a way that allows their creativity to be expressed in their work. In this first excerpt, Hocking lays out his fundamental belief as to the role and responsibilities of a creative director as primarily a facilitator of the team's creativity - and how that role was reached particularly effectively with Far Cry 2: After three and a half years of development, creative director Clint Hocking shares the hits and misses of this fascinating and rather under-discussed franchise reboot.' The aim was to create a first-person shooter with an engaging and truly dynamic narrative, in a vibrant persistent living world. Ubisoft Montreal creative director Clint Hocking crafted the postmortem of the game, which was introduced in Game Developer as follows: These extracts reveal how the internal team behind the game struggled with far-reaching narrative difficulties, yet maintained a core commitment to design principles. The latest issue of Gamasutra sister publication Game Developer magazine includes a creator-written postmortem on the making of Ubisoft Montreal's Far Cry 2, an ambitious open-world first-person shooter.

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