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Platform Win, Mac, Linux Publisher Frictional Games Developer Frictional Games Release Date 09/08/2010

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Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer working on new 'super secret project'

By Emily Gera on Sep 11, 2012 09.11.12

Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer, Frictional Games, is working on a new "super secret project" that will deliver deeper horror themes than their previous work, it was revealed on the studio's official blog. "One of the things I was most disappointed with in Amnesia was that it never really managed to deliver any deeper themes, but was more like a shallow fright-fest," wrote studio co-founder Thomas Grip. "For the new project we want to change that and really try and bring a certain theme to the front. Our hope is that this will create a very special experience, creating horror in a much more disturbing way." According to Grip, who links his paper on in-game storytelling as a glimpse into what the future game may have in store, the game's tech is in working order and the studio...

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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs will use lessons learned from the storytelling of Dear Esther

By Emily Gera on Aug 13, 2012 08.13.12

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, the upcoming sequel to PC horror title Amnesia: The Dark Descent, will use a philosophy of storytelling similar to that seen in abstract narrative game Dear Esther, thechineseroom creative director Dan Pinchbeck said today during a lecture at GDC Europe. The horror title will take lessons learned from Dear Esther's use of inference and suggestion in how it tells its story, said Pinchbeck. "You can't represent anything in horror games that will be scarier than what is in a player's imagination," he explained. Citing theorists Roland Barthes and Daniel Dennett, Pinchbeck stated stories are an inevitable product of playing a game, and players assemble a narrative internally. Calling Dear Esther a "story-Minecraft," he added the studio is not in the business...

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  • Windows
    • Released 09/08/2010
    • Publisher Frictional Games
    • Developer Frictional Games
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    • Released 09/08/2010
    • Publisher Frictional Games
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    • Released 09/08/2010
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