Studio Director & Art Director at Guerrilla Games. Original concept creator of Horizon Zero Dawn. BAFTA & Golden Calf winner. Poweruser of the word Basically.
Joined August 2013
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The one and only Six More Vodka team, the visual masters behind Marvel and League of Legends, has been building an amazing new world that will be the basis for books, games, movies. Go check it out and help build it.
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Extremely excited to show this to all of you. Please join our first playtest and tell us what you think. We have an awesome journey lined up, and I can’t wait to show you more.
Forge your legacy in Horizon Hunters Gathering – a tactical co-op action game that lets up to three players team up as heroic Hunters to protect a world under threat from deadly machines. Coming to PS5 and PC.
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Jan-Bart van Beek retweeted
Forge your legacy in Horizon Hunters Gathering – a tactical co-op action game that lets up to three players team up as heroic Hunters to protect a world under threat from deadly machines. Coming to PS5 and PC.
youtu.be/Wi_kz4MDG1o
#HorizonHuntersGathering #RallyForTheHunt
From the first moment we imagined Horizon, we always thought about it as a multiplayer game.
LEGO Horizon Adventures was our first small step, with Steel Frontiers we’re taking a bigger one. There is much more to come, and we’re excited to show you what is coming.
We’re very excited about the latest announcement from our friends at NCSOFT: Horizon Steel Frontiers, a cross-platform MMORPG for Mobile and PC (PURPLE).
#HorizonSteelFrontiers
A friend on mine made a really, really crazy game. You are are an insect, and you have take take out humanity !
It is what you all need to play !
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Revisiting The BIG PS4 Reveal: Killzone Shadow Fall Looked Amazing... An... youtu.be/7ifYY_UZl18?si=Su3d… via @YouTube
Oh, stay a while and listen. We have tales to tell.
Near the final scene, there was a segment, where the player get three shots to kill the bad guy. If the player failed. Game over. Let’s forget about the wisdom of that design decision, or why we should have kept that in our announce demo.
The whole announce of the game was an actual part of the game, running in real-time, being controlled by Steven, our game director. If he messed up, it would be live broadcasted. If it crashed, dito.
Killzone Shadow Fall was a unique moment. After the release of Killzone 2, Guerrilla took a silent oath to never use out-of-engine footage again. Shadow Fall’s announce wasn’t just in-engine… it was in-game.
As the human brain runs for an hour on a banana, wasn’t it always a race to the bottom of what AI actually needs ?
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For my last GOTY piece on GI, I finally gushed about how much I love Horizon: Forbidden West (and Zero Dawn), why I owed @janbartvanbeek an apology, and how foolish @Guerrilla were to give me access to a Photo Mode
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One of the best PlayStation ads of that era.
I’m really loving the art style of Songs of Silence ! Can’t wait to dive in and play it :)
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So excited to see the first billboard for LEGO Horizon Adventures ! With gaming being ever more a pure digital product, we rarely get to enjoy seeing our games appear on a store shelf, so it’s great to be able to see it out on the streets. Hope you enjoy it !
Horizon Zero Dawn was our first open-world game. It featured locations over a 30+ square kilometer area in a 24-hour light cycle. It was extremely hard to check every nook and cranny of the world to see if the lighting functioned correctly. This was a location that malfunctioned
Updated comparison of HZD and #HorizonZeroDawnRemastered. This is absolutely insane. The improved foliage, the reflections, the increased light bounces and the new textures make this scene look brand new! This feels like a remake! Great job, @NixxesSoftware !
Very honored to be back at The View conference this year. Go check out the program. So much good stuff !
@ViewConference proudly announces that @Guerrilla Games @janbartvanbeek’s
masterclass on: “Talking a Video Game into Existence: The Importance of Verbal Communication in Art Direction.” #meetyourheroes
Register!
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The big delta ofcourse comes from matching the remaster with the lighting style we developed for HFW, but the are tons of rendering upgrades underneath it.
The skin and hair shaders are upgrades significantly.
The lighting on the skin now uses a dual specular lobe for both direct lighting and environmental reflection to more accurately represent the epidermal and subdermal layers of the skin.
The forward rendered shell that covers here eyes and skin can now hold multiple full res (2k) shadowmaps allowing us to place more lights around her and add more specular highlight in her eyes, which allow us to light her in a way that emphasizes her emotional state