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l4d.com - 1/4/2009

L4D Art Direction, Part 2: Stylized Darkness

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Aesthetics, fiction and gameplay: these are three criteria that we always consider when employing a new art direction for a game. With a game as dark as Left 4 Dead, this meant having to figure out a lot of new ways to use the absence of light to our advantage.

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