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‘Dreamfall’ Dev Announces Next-Gen Survival Horror Game ‘Draugen’
Dreamfall developer Red Thread Games has unveiled their next project, a next-gen survival horror game called Draugen. The project will be partially funded by a $144,000 grant from the Norwegian Film Institute. It’s inspired by Scandinavian literature and will take place in the 1920s, set against the stunning Norwegian west coast. Not a common setting for a video game, so I’m definitely looking forward to that. Read on to learn more about it.
Draugen is a first person survival horror adventure that will bring together Scandinavian legends and fairytales, Norse mythology and Icelandic sagas.
It takes place in a remote fishing town whose inhabitants have mysteriously vanished. Sounds a bit like a Norwegian version of the legend of the Roanoke colony.
You’ll be tasked with finding out what happened to the community, and you’ll do so by gathering clues and memories to solve the riddle of what happened to all those people. Like a good horror game, there’s something sinister at work.
We don’t know much about it, but I’m already sold on the premise. It’s one part Roanoke mystery, two parts supernatural thriller. What do you think?
Draugen is slated to release on the PC, Mac, Linux and next-gen consoles in November 2014.
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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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