Amnesia Developer Describes Upcoming Horror Game As ‘Thought-Provoking’

Amnesia developer Frictional Games may have outsourced the development of Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs to thechineseroom, the makers of Dear Esther, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t working on something of their own while the development of the aforementioned game is going on.

Speaking to BeefJack, Frictional Games developer and co-founder Thomas Grip says that they too are working on a new horror game. Much like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, the new, as-yet-unnamed title is being developed as a first-person horror game and that it’s set to be a more “thoughtful and thought-provoking game” than the first Amnesia, which despite its cleverly written story, was a bit shallow.

“The way we handled horror in Amnesia was that we just threw stuff in without thinking too much about why it was there,” he said. “Our main goal was simply to build up a scary atmosphere, and whatever contributed to that was added. This means that you as a player can not really think too deeply about any element, since there often was not any deeper intent with it.”

“For our next game we want to have more thought behind everything that happens, and tie things together so if the player thinks some more about it, it will take things a step further. So we want these extra layers to the gameplay that will really get below the skin of the player. The small stuff we had in Amnesia felt like a good indicator that this could have excellent results, so it felt like the logical next step to take.”

You can read the rest of the interview here.