Some great points, varying in importance, for making a great horror game. I plan on making this an active list, as I always enjoy playing (or watching) any new horror game that comes out – even if I am a wuss and they do scare me. That’s the point of them anyway. So here we go. Read More
Guide to Cats
Watch this entertaining ‘Engineer’s Guide to Cats’, I love it’s deadpan delivery. I also recommend then watching ‘Advanced Cat Yodelling’. That is all.
A critique of current horror games
Warning – contains spoilers in regards to Dead Space, Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Silent Hill: Homecoming, the Penumbra series, and brief (non spoiler) mentions of Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
EDIT: While I shouldn’t have to explain that a two your old post might not be as accurate as it is now then when it was written, I have even reviewed more recent horror games – Calling, for example. However, my main point still stands – true horror, rather than a shooter or anything else with a horror skin, is sadly lacking atm.
Been away for a while…
So, the website has been away for a while. We were having a lot of problems with our content hosting company. It had recently changed hands in terms of ownership, and while there didn’t seem to be any malicious cutting of quality – it doesn’t seem as well turned out in terms of support. So we’ve gone to a new host. Oh well.
To make up for this long absence I’ve at least been busy making website content. I’ve completed three new pictures. The first is a portrait sketch of Sherlock Holmes from the new BBC series ‘Sherlock’ here > Link. I really enjoyed the series while it was on TV so I had to pre-order it. The pilot episode was very strange and very wrong but still Sherlock. Cumberbatch was very…neat. Read More