Heat haze
Other (objects, etc.) entity
24
games
6platforms
Notable people involved: Clint Hocking, Marc Canham, Bertrand Hélias, Louis-Pierre Pharand and Pierre Rivest
Alternate name: Heat distortion
WIN 2008-10-21
WIN 2011-10-27
X360 2008-10-21
WIN 2015-01-25
WII 2009-06-19
WIN 2009-08-18
WIN 2012-10-03
WIN 2014-10-23
PS3 2008-10-21
WIN 2010-10-20
WIN 2009-06-30
PS3 2009-06-09
In modern games this is usually a shader effect. In older games this is either pre-rendered animation or a pixel displacement effect (by wobbling/misaligning whole lines of pixels horizontally in a wave-like motion).
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The first Heat haze video game was released in 2005.
Ubisoft, THQ and Over the Top Games published most of these games.