{"id":1007,"date":"2022-05-21T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:11:35","slug":"man-made-horrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=1007","title":{"rendered":"Man-Made Horrors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Allison Shoaf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Horror&nbsp;follows&nbsp;a variety of&nbsp;storylines,&nbsp;but&nbsp;horror games delve deeper into this and allow for first person exploration,&nbsp;puzzles,&nbsp;tension, and fear.&nbsp;Much like&nbsp;movies it can hold complete immersion and much to&nbsp;a whole new level&nbsp;for a game&nbsp;as a player that interacts with setting and character&nbsp;to&nbsp;act&nbsp;and make decisions that can&nbsp;change&nbsp;which turn the ending&nbsp;may&nbsp;take.&nbsp;Viewer discretion is advised,&nbsp;titles&nbsp;mentioned in this article are rated R and&nbsp;may include spoilers for said&nbsp;games.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Horror, as well as many other genres, has sub-genres that have&nbsp;vastly different&nbsp;interactions for the player. The sub-genres can include survival, action, psychological,&nbsp;jumpscare, and reverse.&nbsp;There are many sub-genres in the horror scene, of many is popular psychological horror. The sub-genre focuses&nbsp;mainly on&nbsp;mental, psychological, and emotional states that the character goes through. It uses this to relate and scare the audience simultaneously. The entities that the character may fall victim to is&nbsp;forms of hallucination, paranoia, delusions, the supernatural, gaslighting by other characters, and sometimes even actual mental illness taking form as a giant metaphor.&nbsp;A different type of sub-genre is survival horror in which the protagonist must escape or survive a horrific, eerie, and violent environment.&nbsp;It&nbsp;creates&nbsp;an environment like that of a horror film.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Much like movie and tv counterparts, horror games are enjoyable because they shock and give adrenaline to the person playing.&nbsp;Over the years games have been explored involving horror. Many if not all horror games follow a specific formula. Most, if not all are first person based, there are barely any helpful A.I and heightens feelings of isolation and helplessness.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;An early set game is Haunted House which was produced in 1982&nbsp;where the character was put into a maze-like haunted estate&nbsp;and was escaping with an urn.&nbsp;In 1989&nbsp;a&nbsp;game&nbsp;called&nbsp;<em>Sweet Home<\/em>&nbsp;was released by Capcom and&nbsp;helped&nbsp;create&nbsp;the&nbsp;well-known&nbsp;series of Resident Evil games&nbsp;as inspiration with the abandoned mansion.&nbsp;Adventure game developers got more gruesome with projects such as the release of&nbsp;<em>7<\/em><em><sup>th<\/sup><\/em><em>&nbsp;Guest<\/em>&nbsp;in 1993 and featured a large amount of pre-rendered 3D&nbsp;graphics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-27-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-27-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-27-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-27-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-27-1280x720.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-27.jpeg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-22.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-22.png 400w, https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image-22-300x289.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;A display of genres that are also popular horror games includes<em>&nbsp;Little Nightmares<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Bendy and the Ink Machine<\/em>, Cry of Fear, most recent Poppy\u00b4s Playtime,&nbsp;Phasmophobia,&nbsp;Spooky\u00b4s&nbsp;Jumpscare&nbsp;Mansion collection, Resident Evil game collection, Five Nights at Freddy\u00b4s game collection, etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;The<em>&nbsp;Little Nightmares<\/em>&nbsp;games&nbsp;explore&nbsp;your childhood&nbsp;fears,&nbsp;and you play in a&nbsp;2D scrolling environment. The game includes exploration,&nbsp;storyline,&nbsp;puzzles, survival, scripted fights, and several entities that&nbsp;one narrowly avoids throughout the game.&nbsp;<em>Bendy and the Ink Machine<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;an interesting take on horror with its 3D&nbsp;environment,&nbsp;setting,&nbsp;exploration,&nbsp;storyline,&nbsp;puzzles,&nbsp;several&nbsp;entities, scripted and unscripted fights.&nbsp;<em>Poppy&#8217;s&nbsp;Playtime<\/em>&nbsp;is a rising star in the indie game community&nbsp;with&nbsp;new&nbsp;plot, setting,&nbsp;and in game mechanics. The game includes exploration, storyline, puzzles,&nbsp;objectives, survival,&nbsp;and&nbsp;several entities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Cry of Fear<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;a 3D&nbsp;single player&nbsp;environment with&nbsp;exploration, storyline,&nbsp;objectives,&nbsp;psychological influence,&nbsp;and player&nbsp;made decisions.&nbsp;<em>Spooky\u00b4s Jumpscare Mansion<\/em>&nbsp;collection is maze-like&nbsp;3D&nbsp;experiences&nbsp;with player interactions, several entities, exploration, puzzles,&nbsp;A.I that provides help and problems throughout the&nbsp;entirety of the game.&nbsp;<em>Phasmophobia<\/em>&nbsp;is a 3D multiplayer horror game with involvement in paranormal&nbsp;and a variety of playable maps. It&nbsp;is an objective based horror game that kept one running from the entity&nbsp;and solving a simple mystery.&nbsp;It&nbsp;is&nbsp;a free roam game that ended completely dependent on the players&#8217; actions and&nbsp;became&nbsp;incredibly&nbsp;popular.&nbsp;In 1996&nbsp;<em>Resident&nbsp;Evil&nbsp;<\/em>finally&nbsp;released and would start&nbsp;two-decade&nbsp;old franchises that would include light-gun games, third person shooters, multiplayer titles, and much more.&nbsp;<em>The&nbsp;Resident Evil<\/em>&nbsp;collection&nbsp;of games&nbsp;has&nbsp;included 3D and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;person view, they are&nbsp;storyline&nbsp;horror games&nbsp;that require one to fight entities&nbsp;and complete&nbsp;objectives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s&nbsp;is a horror game&nbsp;collection&nbsp;that requires one to watch security cameras and make sure electricity still runs throughout the night until six in the morning to stay alive. Though simple and repetitive sounding, it became a 2014 hit in the indie game industry. It is considered one of the best horror games made and has become a classic for those who just began gaming in the genre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;New horror games&nbsp;one can see&nbsp;coming out in 2022&nbsp;are&nbsp;<em>Dying Light 2, Evil Dead,&nbsp;Ghostwire: Tokyo, The Callisto Protocol,&nbsp;Resident Evil&nbsp;Re:Verse<\/em>,<em>&nbsp;The Outlast Trials<\/em>, and<em>&nbsp;Dead Space.&nbsp;<\/em>During the wait one can play other games in the series or collection. One being the&nbsp;other&nbsp;latest released&nbsp;<em>Resident Evil<\/em>&nbsp;games&nbsp;<em>Resident Evil Village,&nbsp;<\/em>etc.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;In an interview,&nbsp;<strong>Mrs. Takacs<\/strong>, a Lenape Teacher, and&nbsp;<strong>Mr.&nbsp;Perry<\/strong>, a CIT instructor, were asked about Horror&nbsp;Games. The questions they considered were: What&nbsp;do you know about horror games? Is there any horror game you favor in particular?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Mrs. Takacs&nbsp;<\/strong>did not know much about horror games&nbsp;at all and&nbsp;had&nbsp;not heard of any games she&nbsp;could name at that time.&nbsp;<strong>Mr. Perry<\/strong>, while not favoring the horror genre, did however know about it quite well and&nbsp;suggested&nbsp;games&nbsp;such as&nbsp;<em>Resident Evil<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Clock Tower<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Fatal Frames<\/em>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Yume Nikki<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Horror games can typically be accessible for any player of any skill level, unlike combat games.&nbsp;Only basic knowledge of the controller or keyboard is&nbsp;required.&nbsp;Horror games are not exclusive to&nbsp;a group of&nbsp;people and&nbsp;there is&nbsp;many types&nbsp;one&nbsp;can&nbsp;explore. There are genres and&nbsp;differing settings that can cater to&nbsp;one&#8217;s&nbsp;preferences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHorror Games and Genre Revival: Why People Want Scary Games.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Student Resources<\/em>, 1 Apr. 2016,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nyfa.edu\/student-resources\/horror-games-and-genre-revival-why-people-want-scary-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.nyfa.edu\/student-resources\/horror-games-and-genre-revival-why-people-want-scary-games\/<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy Genre Study on Psychological Horror \u2013 and the Different Forms It Can Take\u2026.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Wp.wwu.edu<\/em>, wp.wwu.edu\/twseng101\/.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSURVIVAL HORROR English Definition and Meaning | Lexico.com.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Lexico Dictionaries | English<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexico.com\/en\/definition\/survival_horror\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.lexico.com\/en\/definition\/survival_horror<\/a>. Accessed 11 Nov. 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinha, Ravi. \u201cA Comprehensive History of Horror Gaming.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Gamingbolt<\/em>, 6 Apr. 2016, gamingbolt.com\/a-comprehensive-history-of-horror-gaming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staff,&nbsp;TheGamer. \u201cHorror Games You HAVE to Try in 2022.\u201d&nbsp;<em>TheGamer<\/em>, 23 Oct. 2021,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/most-anticipated-horror-games-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.thegamer.com\/most-anticipated-horror-games-2022\/<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Allison Shoaf &nbsp;&nbsp;Horror&nbsp;follows&nbsp;a variety of&nbsp;storylines,&nbsp;but&nbsp;horror games delve deeper into this and allow for first&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}