How do you save the spooky genre?
>>740201630cant
The forbidden genre evolution: the chill game that becomes horror, never advertises a moment of horror and never receives the horror tag.It's literally not possible but a man can dream.
>>740201630The best horrors are unexpected I find. Aim to give your audience a cold pit in their stomach when they least expect it.
>>740203417The issue is that word would get out the second the game dropped these days. Most people watch streams/videos of games before they buy them themselves, unfortunately.The best you can do is 'one spooky level in otherwise mostly normal game.' It's why people remember Robbing the Cradle and Ocean House Hotel so much.
>>740201630AHH!
>>740201630Doesn't need saving. Good horror games come out at the same rate now as good games for other genres. It's not 2020 anymore.
>>740203931Your pic is shit horror aka jumpscare shit.True horror is the feeling of discomfort and unsettling atmosphere. Not the kind of shit that portrays itself as "OOOoooo this is spooky and you should feel SPOOKED!"I mean in the sense that you are actually imagining the situation in your head, relate to it normally, and feel the constant dread that that something isn't right, feeling unsafe, and things being outside your power but not fully comprehending it. Only time I experienced this was Lovecraft's The Whisperer in Darkness.Or shit like people disappearing in hikes and camping in a certain area due to certain legends.Or real life happenings where a guy was camping alone in his tent, heard someone walking around it, unable to do anything in his shitty tent. Then waiting for it to leave and packed up and marched through the dark only to return the next day to find a giant cinder block dropped on his tent where his head would be resting.
>>740207792Shit like vidhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy-gdRXGcmA
>>740207792>Or shit like people disappearing in hikes and camping in a certain area due to certain legends.>Or real life happenings where a guy was camping alone in his tent, heard someone walking around it, unable to do anything in his shitty tent. Then waiting for it to leave and packed up and marched through the dark only to return the next day to find a giant cinder block dropped on his tent where his head would be resting.Hate to tell you this anon but thats probably fake
>>740208290Sure but I'll tell you my story that happened to me.>went canoe camping with some bros across various lakes>was the most intense portaging and canoeing journey>have an easy party day on the 1st day>drinking beers, chilling with the bros>start meming about horror stories>meme about skin walker to one of the other bros in the forest notorious for that legend>he goes pale and says to shut the fuck up and not say anymore in a very serious manner>laugh it off and ask him why he's getting so scared>he meant it seriously and we left it at thatnext post...
>>740208659>next day do 8-10 hour of serious portaging and hiking, it's neverending grueling journey>everyone dead tired on 2nd day and ready to crash out where it's sunset>barely any time to setup tents etc>it's already pitch black>help bro with hanging our food up a tree a far distance away from camp to stop bears from bugging us>took us like 30--45 minutes because we're retarded...
>>740208869>was told by bro to wait while he gets something to help with hanging the bear bag>bro walks back to the camp and hear his footsteps rustle through the twigs and leaves back to the camp site>stuck standing and holding the bear bag and some stuff in the pitch black night alone in the forest>while standing alone hear someone talking in the darkness in the opposite direction from camp>couldn't make out what was said>just thought one of our other guys were over there gathering branches or something>bro comes back and we finish the job of hanging the bearbag>ask him if he was over there or if anyone was over there>he said no>walk back to camp and see everyone was chilling there>ask others if they were around us>they weren't>don't want to scare everyone nor come off crazy hearing things>pretend that I just imagined everything>definitely heard someone over there in that darkness
>>740209031Hate to tell you this anon, but that was me getting ready to rape you
>>740201630>Go back to 2014 and convince Scott not to make FNaF>Go back in every year in the 2000's and kill all the zoomers making indie horror games.
>>740203931I haven't seen the animated version of this since I first came here in 2013
>>740203417Doki Doki Literature Club was that for about two days before the word got around, and demonstrates why it's an impossible dream
>>740210605aw DAMN
>>740201630DEAD BART
>>740209031>I heard talking over away from methat's IT?cmon bro u gotta have better than that
>>740215631I ran out of tokens for Claude, sorry
>>740209031Hope this helps, anon: There is nothing supernatural about our world. Your friend was messing with you or your mind made some shit up as our minds do.
>>740203417I was playing halo infinite earlier and exploring random parts of the map and found a dark ass cave in the middle of nowhere. All I could hear is water drops and it had screeching bats in the cave. It was just dead silent with water drops and kind of reminded me of the Nutty Putty cave YouTube story.
>>740204071>The issue is that word would get out the second the game dropped these daysI'm still baffled that Dokidoki Literature Club surprises anyone with its twist beyond the first few weeks it was out.
>>740201630horror games are now fnaf or a walking sim, has been for over a decade. If you play a game you just walk in and read letters on the ground youre a fucking retard.
