Perfect Dark Developer says the striking 2024 game demo's 'there are some fakes, but many are legal'
Blog Andrew Joseph 05 Jul , 2025 0
A developer working on Microsoft's reality now Perfect dark reboot Has addressed the claim that last year's game demo was “fake” and said the glimpse was a vertical slice of the project running “engine”.
Perfect Dark是本周Microsoft罐装的几个项目之一，这是该公司最新毁灭性削减Xbox员工和游戏的一部分。 Developed by the program Microsoft Studios are closingtogether with Tomb Raider Studios Crystal Dynamics, the perfect darkness has rarely been glimpsed since. 2020 Announcement.
This all changed last year when the Games Display video was part of the Xbox Games display cabinet in June 2024. The video has since raised questions about the amount of content it displays corresponding to the actual working system system.
Earlier this week, Kotaku writer Ethan Gach Posted On social media, he was told last year's demo was “basically fake”. The legality of gameplay is discuss More details are former perfect dark developer Adam McDonald, who now works as a senior game designer at Cuphead Maker Studio MDHR.
“It's actually an internal engine,” McDonald's said. “I'm one of three levels of designers working on it. If you play it like the way people play in videos play it together, it works best, but even if you don't reach the mark perfectly, it still works.
He continued: “There are some fake things in it and the real game system shown looks good enough in this video. We are making real design decisions quickly so that they don’t have much impact on the game.
“The battle is 'real' because someone has to really do everything in the video, but it's set to play exactly that way and if you play it differently, it's not doing well.”
McDonald's said that there are nuances here. Just like many vertical slices are designed to showcase projects that are still under development, it works enough and to understand how the final game will appear if the project survives until it starts.
McDonald's' advice here seems to be that the team behind it intends to show something that can accurately understand what might be ideal. That said, even if it is to represent, some elements obviously still sound like work in progress.
“I saw a lot of controversy about 'the whole thing is fake', which annoyed me, so I wanted to say something.” Then, in a reply to another user, McDonald's said, “It's a pretty typical vertical slice” and “I don't think we're particularly deceptive about it.”
He added: “It's probably more realistic than you think. We're figuring out in time that it's included in the demo and try not to lie to the players.”
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