Fear

beantas · 2002-11-01T08:39:21

The "How" question. How do you scare the player through gameplay? For the most part, most "scary games" use non-gameplay things that movies do to scare the player. Dark atmosphere, scary cutscenes, scary-looking characters, sudden bursts of sound and violence, etc. Gameplay-wise, most games use the basic danger and difficulty of an enemy as the basis of fear. Some others use "the fear of the unknown" as the basis of fear (dark winding corridors). What other things could you do through gameplay to scare the player?