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Obstacle translucification

Video game concept

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27
games
11
platforms

Sight obscuring obstacles are made translucent or completely invisible when the game determines them to be obscuring player's view of things the protagonist can plainly see.

Notable people involved: Matthew Householder, Chris Taylor, Kenneth Williams, David Brevik and Theodore Bisson

Diablo (PlayStation)
Diablo
PS1 1998-03-27
Hellfire (Windows)
Hellfire
WIN 1997-11-24
Avencast: Rise of the Mage (Windows)
Avencast: Rise of the Mage
WIN 2007-10-16
Diablo II: Resurrected (PlayStation 5)
Diablo II: Resurrected
PS5 2021-09-23
Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna (Windows)
Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna
WIN 2003-11-11
Diablo II (Macintosh OS Classic)
Diablo II
MAC 2000-06-29
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World (Windows)
Dungeon Siege II: Broken World
WIN 2006-04
ArcaniA - A Gothic Tale (Windows)
ArcaniA - A Gothic Tale
WIN 2010-10-13
Dungeon Siege (Windows)
Dungeon Siege
WIN 2002-04-04
Diablo (Macintosh OS Classic)
Diablo
MAC 1996-12
Diablo (Windows)
Diablo
WIN 1996-12
Diablo II (Windows)
Diablo II
WIN 2000-06-29
See also: player underexposure
Essentially mandatory, but unfortunately not "standard", feature of isometric or similar games.

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Parent groups

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Games by year

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The first Obstacle translucification video game was released on December 1996.

Blizzard published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows11
Mac OS Classic3
Pandora3
Mac OS X2
Linux2
Switch1
PS41
PS51
Xbox One1
Xbox Series X1
PS1

Most common companies

Blizzard13