Clutch

Women's faces more and more.

My friend Jane Perry, who I adore, is in Clutch, which is coming out either this year or next year.

And it's her face, you know, and, you know, she's, you know, in her mid 50s, I think.

And it's wonderful to see a woman.

Okay.

It sounds a little like what Maverick Games is trying to do with Clutch.

Those ex Forza Horizon developers were they previewed this at Summer Game Fest, but it's called Clutch, and it's kind of like this.

I don't know if it's roguelike elements, but it's like story in between races, and so it has a whole story foundation across the game that you're working through as you go through races.

So to your point, there's more going on than just winning races that are money.

In a great way, like super experience.

And yeah, it was basically the first time we got to see the Chinese audience getting their hands on Clutch.

And we'd obviously had the team here do a localized version of the demo that we'd taken to Gamescom.

So everything was sort of translated into Chinese with Chinese text.

Yeah, it didn't work for

Leo, did it? No, no, no.

Alright, well, let's move on to talking about lighting in Clutch then, off the back of that, because we have you in the studio, let's figure that out.

So where do you One of the things I was interested to know is where do you start kind of philosophically when you're starting to think about lighting in a game like Clutch? Because there's many driving games.

But I think it could go more than that.

One example that s- springs to my mind now is a game that's not out yet and that's Clutch.

Now I've only tried a, a specifically designed de- demo for Gamescom, right? And it's not a sim, but I'm just saying they could, other sims can learn from this and that's I think the whole point of Solbergfan's question here.

There's a bit where you can walk around the paddock and the pit lane before a race event 'cause it has racing on a track.

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but it's just bad nowadays.

Yeah and Clutch is trying to do something but we'll have to see how that plays out 'cause it's not finished and, uh, yeah I can't remember the track but it one of the NASCAR '26 voiceover things is, "And we're here at Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol."

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