- Previous Assassin’s Creed Hex director Clint Hocking says he used AI to learn how to code
- Hocking says he used ChatGPT to mostly debug code, but found it “sucked”
- He later switched to JavaScript and learned to code “despite ChatGPT”
Far cry 2 and earlier Assassin’s Creed Hex director Clint Hocking has admitted that he has previously used AI to help him learn to code, but found the process “brutal”.
In the latest issue of Edge Magazine, which focused on how AI tools have been used in the gaming industry, Hocking revealed his own stance on the divisive technology and believes its integration is inevitable.
The developer also said that he has used ChatGPT, one of the most popular AI tools, to help him learn how to code.
“It was brutal,” Hocking said. “ChatGPT was a bit of a mess. It didn’t really know how to code. Everything was broken. It was mostly me trying to debug code without knowing how to code myself.”
But after about a year and a half, Hocking abandoned the software in favor of JavaScript, admitting that “in some ways he learned to code despite ChatGPT” and comparing the AI tool to a tutor rather than an alternative to learning.
Hocking was the original creative director of Assassin’s Creed Hexbut left Ubisoft for a second time earlier this year after appointing three experienced Assassin’s Creed developers to lead the franchise at the company’s newly formed Tencent-funded subsidiary Vantage Studios.
Now, Jean Guesdon, the creative director of Black Flag and Origin is leading Assassin’s Creed Hex. Guesdon was also one of the three veterans appointed to lead the new studio.
In other news, Ubisoft has shared plans to release more Assassin’s Creed games and news Far Cry and Ghost Recon titles by March 2029. In the company’s latest financial report, it said it “expects a significantly larger content pipeline over FY2027-28 and FY2028-29” across these three major brands.
While new Far Cry and Ghost Recon titles not yet published, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag resync will be launched on July 9, Witch could launch in 2027, and there are also plans to release the multiplayer spin-off Codename Invictus and the mobile game Assassin’s Creed Jade.
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