| Developer: | Frictional Games (Twitter: @frictionalgames) |
| Released: | September 2010 (Windows) |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Platform: | Steam |
| Played: | Wednesday, October 3, 2018 |
Show notes
Laya, Thomas, Nathan, Kelly, and Kris explore the dank, Gothic world of Amnesia. The game exerts a liberal amount of control over the player through its interface and aesthetics. The uncanny valley was also discussed and how the limits of technology can be exploited to evoke a desired response from players (see Tinwell). Questions were raised by Thomas about the visual grammar of horror games and what games work against those tropes.
Twitch Link
Watch Lunch Zone: Amnesia: The Dark Descent from Serious_Play on www.twitch.tv
Readings
Tinwell, A. (2014). The uncanny valley in games and animation. AK Peters/CRC Press.
