{"id":880,"date":"2015-10-30T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playlab.uta.fi\/?p=880"},"modified":"2015-10-30T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:43:17","slug":"until-dawn-play-the-horror-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuni.fi\/playlab\/until-dawn-play-the-horror-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Until Dawn: Play the horror movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nikola Adamus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever watched horror movie and screamed &#8220;No, don\u2019t do that, it\u2019s stupid!\u201d? \u201cUntil Dawn\u201d is a game which gives you an opportunity to see if you would be a good horror movie hero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil Dawn\u201d is an interactive horror movie with all what it takes to be a movie. Storyline is cut into chapters which are divided into episodes. Between them we can watch \u201cpreviously on Until Dawn\u201d and see what happened earlier. Movie-like atmosphere was a conscious design choice which makes game more interesting than others from this genre.<\/p>\n<p>Players are given some control over the events \u2013 they are given flashbacks from the future, so sometimes there is a tension between being a real player and touching everything and a hero from horror movie who just want to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, game does not have complicated mechanics \u2013 most of the complex situations like shooting or climbing is being resolved through QTE (quick time events) and whereas they\u2019re not liked by many players, here QTE enhances the experience of story and movie-like atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Game mocks player from the beginning by classical class B horror movie opening just in order to get him or her into more intricate plots which players has to solve, one by one. 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