A Different Point Of View. . .

So there has been a slight delay in blog posting for a while, but the cogs have definitely been turning. Until our proposals are given back to us, I have been absorbing myself in practical material to keep my horror experience juices flowing. Popular YouTube Vlogger and games critic 'Yamimash' has been a character I've enjoyed since I was introduced to him back in the summer holidays. His facecam attached video playthroughs of games are always funny and entertaining to watch.
Even better though, he has an entire category devoted to playing horror games.
Big titles and many indie games, in their hundreds. This has been fantastic for me, as my poorly laptop can barley show proper colours anymore, let alone play high end games with a flawless framerate.
Watching Yamimash play grants me the luxury of experiencing horror games and their varying mechanics in top 720p quality, without the fuss of withering hard drive space or graphics card regulations. I have seen horror games made in Adobe Flash, Unity, Mods from Half Life 2 and of course, the renowned Amnesia and Penumbra series. I sit behind my screen, silently but viciously judging every game I watch 'the mash' play, and planning ever more thoroughly my own approach to my dissertation. It seems that this has payed off though, as a lot of 'jumpscares' that the mash experiences in these games are exactly what I had planned on adding into my own game. They still even make me jump, which is going to make playtesting a bitch.

A few posts ago, I mentioned the 3 different tests I would implement in Unity, to get the horror player experience started, and I have done just that. Working away on them bit at a time, moulding the finest gameplay I can engineer out of my own design. As these tests are obviously gameplay oriented, I am looking into some decent screen recording software to record what I have achieved in these tests. I might even be able to get Unity Webplayer working on Blogger, so you, my darling audience, can play it for yourselves, but that is time permitting really. Videos are the easy choice, and I will do my best to put out a video of the 'Fear' test before the end of the week, embedded in another blog.

Until then, here is a link to Yamimashs youtube account, it's really worth a watch if you have the time and take an interest in gaming, horror or both!

http://www.youtube.com/user/yamimash