Hey everyone, Rebecka here. Every week I will be posting a variety of #SpookySpread content, from horror game reviews, opinions, background information, and discourse. Hopefully your time with me will cause your veins run cold with fear, and encourage you to think on terror! Alright, lameness aside, let's take a look together at the ambience of horror games. What exactly do I mean by ambience? I mean the atmosphere. The setting that creates it, the lighting that shapes it, and the music and sound (or lack thereof) that fosters it. Characters are also exceptionally important in the creation of an effective horror game, but they really deserve a post of their own, don't you think? It would be safe to suggest that ambience is significant in horror games. There is nothing that ruins a creepy atmosphere more than strangely placed music, and an inability to properly see what is going on around you (horror movies are unfortunately guilty of this all the time, but we won'...
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