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Gamer Deep Lore, Exhibit #3. The Tomb of Horrors.

The Bottom Feeder

The myth, the legend, the 1978 Dungeons & Dragons murderfest Tomb of Horrors. The Tomb of Horrors was an early attempt to solve a very difficult problem: How to balance a turn-based RPG once characters get very powerful. You can always make the numbers bigger, sure, but that's boring and leads to eternal fights. Pwned, n00b.

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Staying alive is all the victory you can hope for in The Forever Winter by Fun Dog Studios

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This is not the case in the upcoming four-player sci-fi tactical survival horror shooter, The Forever Winter. And every enemy you down makes an exponentially more threatening reply from the warring factions, who might take a small break from their own fights to hunt you down.” They’re a mere mouse in a maze, scrounging for scraps.

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Crafting chills and thrills: How to create a perfect horror movie scenario

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For those who dare to dabble in the demonic art of horror screenwriting, steering through a maze of well-trodden paths is the key to unleashing a masterpiece that will resonate through the vaulted tombs of cinematic history. This is the forbidden zone, the heart of darkness, the centerpiece of your horror story.

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Wrapping up 2023 • Celebrating the life and works of solo developers

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Solo dev Dr.Kucho fights for true video games: “People play guided tours now” Mario Malagrino , creator of the recently released game Crude , knows exactly why he is working solo. “My He now works under the name of HALbot Studio s on not one, but two first person survival horror games, House of Lies and The Nightmare Escape.

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Makhoba Kamogelo: “Don’t let fear stop you from reinventing yourself”

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Why did they always have to be about fighting?” There is special effects makeup used in horror films, and it’s all about creative design. One of those games was Street Fighter. Kamo remembers, “It was the biggest game back then. But I often wondered why there weren’t more peaceful games.

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Fan Collective Unimatrix 47: Star Trek Prodigy’s “Ghost in the Machine” Episode

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Heralded by loud music, they open the door into Jankom Pog’s street fighting program. Janeway’s horror at these revelations gets cut short as the alarms begin blaring. Who knew that the engineer enjoyed street fighting? They follow the crew into Murf’s nightclub simulation and narrowly escape into Dal’s pirate simulation.

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Rami Ismail • Find your USP by describing the game in one or two sentences

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As an example, mine would be “The pseudo-MMO about space zombies by the studio that made Halo”, “The horror game about the writer where you find pages that come true”, and “it’s that janky game where you fight thousands of truck-sized ants” Notice that sometimes, you include the creator, sometimes the genre, (..)

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