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Dishonored art directors redesign London’s Shard skyscraper

12 October 2012 • 227 days 11 hours ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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Just as gaming’s best stab at New York lies not with Crysis 2 but in the profound greys of Liberty City, London’s finest digital incarnation is known by another name: Dunwall. Dishonored’s steampunk clock towers and dilapidated docklands are ripped straight from the capital - and what is Samuel the Boatman but a transplanted cabbie?

In acknowledgement of the game’s debt to the city, Arkane art directors Viktor Antonov and Sebastien Mitton have applied Dunwall’s aesthetic and thematics to real-life LDN skyscraper/obelisk The Shard. See the results after the break.

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Dishonored dev diary discusses the creative process, from concept to conclusion

19 September 2012 • 251 days ago • Story by Jeremy Peel

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At times during this, the last Dishonored dev diary scheduled before its release into the wild, even the cameraman seems swept up by Arkane’s player-driven-gaming rhetoric. He jettisons framing conventions, instead crouching in the shadows behind the heads of Smith, Colantonio, Antonov and co. Film from any direction, or not at all. See parts of Harvey Smith’s skull the designer never intended.

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