{"id":15104,"date":"2011-10-28T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"indie-focus-igf-2012-halloween-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/15104-indie-focus-igf-2012-halloween-edition","title":{"rendered":"Indie Focus: IGF 2012 – Halloween edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent Games Festival for 2012 has seen a record number of entries into the main section of the event – counting in at 568 games<\/a> entered to be eligible for a nice, shiny indie award.<\/p>\n

The IGF is the biggest gathering of indie developers in the game industry and serves as a platform for devs to show off their games.<\/p>\n

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In celebration of Halloween happening over this weekend – because we totally celebrate it here in South Africa and are totally not using it as an excuse for themed features – we scoured the entries and found the most horrifying titles there.<\/p>\n

Horrifying as in scary, not as in, you know, really bad.<\/p>\n

Brainsss<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is a bit of horror without a zombie pitching up to devour your fleshy grey matter?<\/p>\n

The key difference with Brainsss, though, you get put on the other side – literally. You’re dead.<\/p>\n

Or rather the zombie hordes you amass to go and “convince” the living to join your cause are dead.<\/p>\n

This game looks like it’s going to be quite a popular jolt when it pops up in Apple’s app store<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Alone<\/strong><\/p>\n

There isn’t much known about Alone, aside from the fact you play as a creepy little kid wearing a creepy mask – and wander around, alone, in a creepy house.<\/p>\n

The game looks like a puzzle, adventure game – with a Myst-like feel to it when you’re not wandering around in 3rd-person.<\/p>\n

I’m not entirely sure if this is actually a horror title at all, but looking at the trailer below, tell me you don’t feel at least a little creeped out.<\/p>\n

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Haunt the House<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this quirky game, you’re a ghost, and your sole aim is to possess different objects in a house, and use them to scare the people wandering around out of it.<\/p>\n

The more of a haunted atmosphere you create, the more “scary” things you’re able to do with the items (like make them float around) – and subsequently scare more people.<\/p>\n

Scare them too much, though, and they might run in the opposite direction, so you’ve got to be a bit more strategic.<\/p>\n

Play it here on the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Snowfield<\/strong><\/p>\n

“You are a lone soldier wandering the aftermath of a great battle. It is the dead of winter and you won’t last long in the cold. But you are not alone.”<\/p>\n

Snowfield looks like one of those games that’s just creepy by default – it’s foggy, it’s cold, and as you wander around the desolate environments, whispers from what may or may not be there, echo in the distance.<\/p>\n

Or in your head.<\/p>\n

It looks and feels very much like Silent Hill meets Call of Cthulu – but not really as horrific or ominous; atmospherically it feels desolate…but it’s difficult to tell what’s actually going on…creepy…<\/p>\n

You can read up on what the whole idea behind the experimental approach to the game’s design on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Home<\/strong><\/p>\n

Home is a horror adventure game<\/a> with some wonderfully retro 8-bit artwork.<\/p>\n

Woken up by a storm, you find yourself in a dark room, in a house that’s not yours – and there’s something sinister afoot. The dead bodies kind of give that one away.<\/p>\n

A murder mystery that apparently ends in a way determined by you – it tops off our list of games coming out of IGF that seems to be aiming to creep us the hell out.<\/p>\n

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Indie Focus: IGF 2012 Horror Edition<\/strong><\/a> << Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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