I agree. When I think back on my earliest memories of Resident Evil, the thing that sticks out to me the most are the loading screens, with the doors and stairs. I (falsely) assumed that they deliberately made the loading screens like that because they would put some jump scares in, and every time I...

I often play other games for reference (both good and bad), so maybe I'll check it out. Right now, my game queue is a bit long though. I just finished Silent Hill: Homecoming and Amnesia: Machine for Pigs. Next up is Outlast! :) Just...completely out of curiosity, what did you think of A Machine Fo...

Matt posed this question earlier in his dev diary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ANfBfy66YY However, the number of comments and pageviews on his videos are always not as high as they should be. So, since it's an extremely important decision of potentially game-changing importance, I figured it des...

Oh, geez!

Something that I was thinking about recently that I think not enough horror games do is make little changes that the player probably isn't going to notice. What made me realize it is Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, which I thought was brilliant, even though I know it's not everyone's cup of tea. On my ...

I was thinking about that upon looking at the kickstarter tiers, and I decided to turn to good ol' fashioned western mythology for ideas. For the Male character, I have a few ideas - -Murphy, after Morpheus, the Roman god of dreams -Sam, after Somnus, the Roman personification of sleep (think "...

I've had a nightmare very similar to your shark bite one! It was only once, but it was very haunting. I was driving my car, doing something from some other segment of the dream, when all the sudden, my girlfriend screams at me. I look in the back seat, and my girlfriend is back there cradling some b...

"Daymare"? Is that sort of like an intense, intrusive thought?

Well, someone's gotta start the first thread, so I figure I might as well share with the entire internet the worst recurring nightmare I've ever had. First, a little background on the phobia that started this - I have a handful of phobias, but nearing the top of the list, if not THE top of the list,...