Just for review, here’s a generic gameplay loop template I’ll be referencing: These concepts are going to be especially important later on in this article, since we’ll be looking at game loops in several games, horror and otherwise, and how they utilize it to make more effective terror. You should ALWAYS know your gameplay loops- the more there are, the more you have to work with.Just because you’re making a horror game does not mean you get to be lazy with your core gameplay.So, the first two rules of horror design are exactly the same as those of any other genre: Again, looking at the spate of half-baked games flooding the market, this seems to be a prevalent issue. When I asked the faculty about the audible groans they emitted when hearing the word “horror”, they all pointed to a really similar issue: previous teams depended too much on the “scary”, and not enough on the actual gameplay. The recent influx has caused much exasperation in the game-playing public, and became a source of pushback when I tried proposing horror games for my senior game project. (For the record, this article is going to use examples from Amnesia: The Dark Descent, SOMA, Outlast, Puzzle Agent, Beyond Good and Evil, The Cursed Forest, and Silent Hill, so be wary of potential spoilers if you want to play these games)Īlright, there’s a lot of bad horror games out there a cursory glance of Steam Greenlight and ModDB can prove that. Creating Horror through Level Design: Tension, Jump Scares, and Chase Sequences
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