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[Indie Horror Spotlight] A Horror Game Where You’re Completely Blind
This series is a testament to my love for the indie horror genre, and my belief that indie games really are the future of gaming. We’ll always have big budget games, but I think we’ll see less of those in the coming years, replaced by smaller games and teams. $50-150 million (or more) is a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a video game, and that focus on money has caused layoffs at big studios, as well as cause a bevy of developers to shut down after going all in with their game.
We’re seeing this migration already. Part of the team behind Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgment are now working on an indie game called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, the makers of Saw are crafting Daylight, some of the developers behind Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed are hard at work on Outlast, etc. Indie is where it’s at.
If you need an example of why I love indie games so much, you needn’t look any further than Team Pixel Pi’s Pulse. It’s a pseudo-horror game that casually balances the line between terrifying and adorable, the former being fueled by the fact that in it, you’re totally blind. More after the break.
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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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