Via the Facebook feed of BioShock lead creator Ken Levine, here's an intriguing game on KickStarter from fellow development team members - Perception, a survivor horror game with a unique twist: While it's first-person, the person you play is a young blind woman who explores a haunted house through echolocation. Watch (and listen!):
I'm simultaneously admiring, supportive, and personally NOPE NOPE NOPE-ing at the idea of playing this myself, because it looks and sounds too freaking freaky:
While Cassie doesn’t have an arsenal of weapons, she does have her wit, her cane and her smart phone. Armed with these tools, she finds clues to unravel history as she navigates her way through the home via echolocation. But the house and its deadly Presence go to great lengths to prevent her from deciphering its secrets... And yet, they won’t let her leave either. Surviving this deadly game of cat and mouse with the Presence is especially perilous when your only way of seeing is by means of sound, and so you must carefully weigh the risk of making too much noise against the possibility of being discovered by the terrifying Presence.
Yeah, so I'm a huge fan of Ken's System Shock 2 and BioShock games, and they already had enough immersive horror to make me not play at night. But damn this looks like a great hook for reinventing a tired genre. Go here to consider Kickstarting if you're braver than me.
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