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Gnarly content: 9 risks for horror game development
This blog explores some of the risks of horror game development and how to address them.
Dec. 4, 2024
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Effective ways to use gore in your game
How can you use gore to support the backbone of your game, whilst meeting the expectations of modern players who want grisly grim guts and blood? Artists from Sumo Digital break down the ways they’ve used and created gore in games to support storytelling, authenticity and gameplay.
Oct. 31, 2024
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Designing a clunky combat system on purpose in Crow Country
'What is Crow Country not doing that it could or should be doing? What makes it clunky?'
Oct. 31, 2024
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How we developed the co-op horror game Cursed Companions
Here are the mechanics we used to create our co-op horror game based on our research on other games.
Oct. 30, 2024
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Call for Submissions: Let's talk about horror games
Join us for a discussion on the modes and mechanics that define a genre.
Oct. 18, 2024
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Exploiting fear to create good horror games
Developers Jade Jacson, Steve Kirby and Kelvin Moore dive into horror as a genre, why we like to be scared and how game developers can exploit our deepest fears to create a wide range of scares.
May 9, 2024
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The enduring horror of monster encounters in Saturnalia
How Santa Ragione used a "less is more" approach to monster encounters in its indie horror title Saturnalia.
March 19, 2024
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How good camerawork enabled The Medium's two simultaneous worlds
Bloober Team's Wojciech Piejko and Jacek Zieba break down how the game's camera helped the company make a horror game that renders two worlds at once on the new generation of Xbox consoles.
Feb. 8, 2021
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Using procedural destruction to unleash chaos in Control
Explaining how Control's procedural destruction system was developed during a GDC Summer talk, Remedy's principle VFX artist Johannes Richter said the process began with understanding 'granularity.'
Aug. 7, 2020
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Exploring the world-driven game design of Control
Remedy's Control was one of the most interesting games of last year because of its mysterious world where the mundane collided with the strange. Mikael Kasurinen and Brooke Maggs tell us the thinking behind the world-building.
April 10, 2020
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Deep Dive: Horror enemy design in Tonight it Follows
Indie game dev Jordan King breaks down design of several key monsters in his uniquely unnerving pixelated horror games.
Oct. 31, 2019
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Permadeath as a game mechanic in a survival horror: the Song of Horror case
Implementing permadeath in a narrative-driven game can be a tricky feature. A post-mortem on the use of permadeath and a reactive AI in a survival horror game.
Oct. 29, 2019