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How Amnesia: The Dark Descent Tricked Players Into Scaring Themselves | War Stories | Ars Technica

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Thomas Grip explains the game design decisions and psychological tricks used to scare players in Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Frictional Games' Thomas Grip, designer of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, discusses the development of one of the most frightening games ever made. Thomas talks in-depth about the game's unique sanity system, as well as how the team continually tricked players into scaring themselves. Opening clip pulled from this video: youtu.be/L1RKuM57nPA?t=109 Connect with Ars Technica: Visit ArsTechnica.com: arstechnica.com Follow Ars Technica on Facebook: facebook.com/arstechnica Follow Ars Technica on Google+: plus.google.com/+ArsTechnica/videos Follow Ars Technica on Twitter: twitter.com/arstechnica How Amnesia: The Dark Descent Tricked Players Into Scaring Themselves | War Stories | Ars Technica

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What people say. Recommended as an excellent postmortem on horror game design and player psychology.

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On “Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs source code released under GPL-3.0 license”

This War Stories video on it is also pretty fun. Been a few weeks since I watched, but I think it has mild spoilers for the story, and major spoilers for a game mechanic.
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