How Crytek’s 25-year journey can inspire the next generation of game artists First-ever documentary is crammed with lessons for aspiring game artists Creative Bloq · Jul 27, 2025
Crysis director says it was so hard to run it became a meme because its highest settings were meant for future PCs: 'I wanted to make sure Crysis does not age' "A lot of people tried to maximise Crysis immediately, and I'm like, 'Oh, that's not why we built the Ultra mode, or Very High.'" PC Gamer · Jan 18, 2025
Crytek went so overboard on the Crysis tech it created a whole blushing system, implemented nose shadows, and sent devs to photograph leaves in Haiti to get the translucency right: 'We went over bonkers on this one' "The shader work that came out of this was mind-blowing at times." PC Gamer · Jan 6, 2025
Crysis' magical Nanosuit was so convincing that a nanotech conference asked Crytek's boss to give a keynote speech: 'I said, excuse me, but this is all fake' Crysis 2 and 3, however, are documentaries. PC Gamer · Jan 6, 2025
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