Report: Far Cry 2 Lead Designer Clint Hocking Leaves Valve

[Karloff]

Report: Far Cry 2 Lead Designer Clint Hocking Leaves Valve

Where to now, Clint Hocking?

Clint Hocking [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118426-Far-Cry-2-Designer-Heads-To-Valve], the Far Cry 2 designer who left LucasArts in 2012 to relocate to Seattle and work for Valve, seems to have left Valve. No word yet on why Hocking departed the company he'd spent a little over a year working for, or where Hocking's off to next.

His personal blog suggests he left Valve former employer [http://www.clicknothing.com/about.html], but that's as much as Hocking's prepared to share. The last time Hocking left a company he said he had something lined up, which turned out to be Valve, but this time either Hocking hadn't prepared in advance or, more likely, he's not going to talk about his plans.

Before his stint at Valve Hocking spent two years at LucasArts, and spent nine years at officially announced [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100491-Splinter-Cell-Far-Cry-2-Director-Resigns-with-Philosophy].

Source: Game Informer [http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/01/05/clint-hocking-departs-valve.aspx]

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[Dragonbums]

Perhaps it has less to do with him being uncomfortable or comfortable at Valve, and more to do with him possibly wanting to work on his own stuff. You can't really do that if your at a huge studio where most of your time is devoted to the work put in front of you.

However like you said, we don't exactly know what the heck is going on, but things change, and perhaps he wants to do something fresh that doesn't involve working at giant corporate studios.

 

[Dragonbums]

Perhaps it has less to do with him being uncomfortable or comfortable at Valve, and more to do with him possibly wanting to work on his own stuff. You can't really do that if your at a huge studio where most of your time is devoted to the work put in front of you.

However like you said, we don't exactly know what the heck is going on, but things change, and perhaps he wants to do something fresh that doesn't involve working at giant corporate studios.

From what we know of how Valve operates, we can be pretty sure that that's exactly NOT the reason.

I'm not really well versed about how Valve operates at all. Yet alone what each individual staff member at Valve does. So your going to have to elaborate on that a bit more.