By glitching their way through the game, they save time. For this reason, they often deliberately leave gaps in the level architecture during development in order to progress more quickly through the game and better test mechanics. However, glitching often has a practical use for developers as well since the creation of a video game rarely proceeds linearly, developers and especially game testers need to have permanent access to all previous levels and missions after implementing new game content and features. Although development interfaces like DirectX actually take care of this, it also becomes clear here how well the technology has to work together to give users an optimal experience. When the individual components of a game are brought together, a glitch may not be noticed, or is noticed too late, despite the amount of time taken testing the game.Īnother complicating factor is that the games have to function on consoles, and additionally on modern gaming PCs assembled with individual hardware.
Video games are now highly complex productions that often involve hundreds of developers at different locations. This glitch did not affect the game’s progress, but it did affect the game’s immersive quality. As a result, the characters’ heads consisted only of eyeballs and mouths, in addition to the characters’ contemporary wigs. Instead of looking into the elaborately modeled faces of protagonist Arno Dorian or historical figures like Maximilien de Robespierre or Napoleon, the glitch prevented the face from being loaded correctly.
This is what fans of the popular action-adventure series Assassin’s Creed experienced in 2014, for example, when the then current eighth entry of the main series went on sale with disturbing graphics glitches. Apart from a change in gameplay, however, they do not cause any major issues in most cases. Glitches are often very noticeable and can be quite creepy depending on their characteristics. Alternatively, in some cases, an update of the graphics driver can solve the problem, for example, if the glitch is due to outdated software. Most glitches are reproducible, which means that they need to be fixed by a patch from the game’s manufacturer. Glitches often occur when graphics do not load or load incompletely, game characters get stuck in other objects or surfaces, animations end abruptly and are thus incomplete, or when important boundary elements in the level environment do not work.
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