Any ideas for a Horror Game?

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#1

I am working on a Horror game right now.
I want some good ideas on how to make a good, successful game.

I’m buying from a guy who will make me an AI system.
It will chase you non stop when your in its eye sight.

Anything is helpful!

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#2

I will be at school, so I wont reply straight away.
I will check the replies after school

#3

I’m not going to come up with an entire horror game but here are some tips that hopefully help you design yours:

Definitely add jump scares and creepy music to intrigue the players more. You could even add spooky statues and readable signs on the floor or walls. Try not make the map to big and if you could, you could try designing it a bit like a maze like what the Mimic game has done. The reason for this is so they might struggle a bit but not too much because we don’t want them to leave because the maps to big but we want them to stay longer if the map is a decent size because they will eventually find there way through in a decent time. Adding smooth player controls like camera bobbling on slight player movement, Sprinting system with possible a stamina bar so they get a chance at being caught from the AI, I’d also recommend adding a lamp to the players inventory incase of dark areas, lastly one of the most important things which is try to make the game look high quality such as creating mold for the couches, creating rusty objects, etc.

Hope this helps :+1: - @AustnBlox

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#4

I got a sprinting system, walk/run animation, camera bobbing, and more.
Thanks for the idea! It’ll help me alot in the big run :+1:

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#5

Just remember, jumpscares are only a little scary the first time. The thought of a jumpscare is what gets you.

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#6

Alien Isolation was known for the alien learning about player behavior. If the player consecutively used certain hiding spots or escape items the alien would search said hiding spots more often or ignore distractions.

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#7

Add illusions? Lots of them and make the character hallucinate or make his dreams come to reality? Basically try doing dimensional dreams or make the character hallucinate a lot

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#8

Yeah. It’ll attract the player into the game even more though

#9

Yeah thats a really good idea, but I’m not a strong scripter
so it’ll be near impossible for me to make it

#10

Yeah that sounds good, might use that in the game