1. Clint Hocking was born on 18 September 1972 and is a Canadian video game designer and director.
20 Facts About Clint Hocking
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Clint Hocking has primarily worked at the Canadian divisions of Ubisoft, where he developed three titles, and briefly worked at LucasArts, Valve, and Amazon Game Studios.
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Clint Hocking rose to prominence when he moved up to direct 2005's Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, which was both a critical and commercial success.
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Clint Hocking went on direct 2008's Far Cry 2, which was positively received by critics.
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Between 2010 and 2015, Clint Hocking joined LucasArts, Valve, and Amazon Game Studios in various senior roles.
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Across his career, Clint Hocking has written monthly columns for the video game magazine Edge, and coined the term ludonarrative dissonance.
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Clint Hocking was born on 18 September 1972 and is from Montreal, Canada.
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Clint Hocking started his career as a writer for website companies whilst completing his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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In May 2010, after almost nine years at Ubisoft Montreal, Clint Hocking left because he felt he had become "too comfortable" at the studio and wanted a new challenge.
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Three months later, Clint Hocking joined LucasArts, based in San Francisco, as the creative director on an unannounced project.
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In June 2012, Clint Hocking left LucasArts without releasing a new game.
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Clint Hocking stated he wanted to move "on to something new"; It is not known what projects he was working whilst at LucasArts.
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Two weeks later, Clint Hocking joined Valve in Seattle, Washington in an unspecified role.
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In January 2014, Clint Hocking left Valve without releasing a game.
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Clint Hocking worked as a senior game designer an unspecified project for Amazon's Fire devices.
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Clint Hocking said he enjoyed working with new people but wanted to work on something that people will get to play, having realized that he has not shipped a game in seven years.
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Clint Hocking expressed difficulties in obtaining a green card and being on his third visa whilst in the United States, which was another reason he wanted to return to Canada.
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Clint Hocking was excited to return to Ubisoft, and he stated: "I know most of the people who were involved in founding the studio personally, and almost all of them are still here".
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Clint Hocking noted that most of the developers who worked on Watch Dogs and Watch Dogs 2 were part of his team when he directed Far Cry 2.
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Across his career, Clint Hocking has written monthly columns for the video game magazine, Edge.