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"It needs to feel like a roller coaster of trauma" – How The Chinese Room crafted Still Wakes The Deep

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Still Wakes The Deep isn't your typical first-person horror game. There's no combat, it's set on an oil rig that (quite literally) becomes a living, breathing entity, and all the player can do is traverse this ever-changing landscape, avoid a growing number of possessed crewmates and hide.

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2023 was the year of creepy fishing adventure Dredge by Black Salt Games

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“Cosmic Horror Fishing Game seems like it could be quite nichey, but in the end we got such an incredible range of players who gave Dredge a try. Ranging from your horror gamers to cozy gamers. The second expansion they’re currently working on, called The Iron Rig, will be released later in 2024. “We

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Strategies for Optimizing Multiplayer Games in Unity

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Phasmophobia Up to four players can join together in a horror investigation of haunted locations. Simplify Rigs: Remove unnecessary controllers, constraints, and bones. Using interpolation/extrapolation in networking helps prevent laggy character movements, ensuring fair play even in high-ping situations. What worked?

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