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Seek Out Paranormal Activity in ‘Ghost Theory’
Dex developer Dreadlocks has returned to Kickstarter with the goal of funding a supernatural horror game called Ghost Theory that they’re building from the ground up to support, but not require, virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift.
Dreadlocks is quick to distance the game from the ever-expanding pool of P.T. successors like Allison Road and Visage, which they’re not looking to emulate. Instead, we’ll follow a clairvoyant paranormal investigator named Barbara as she explores actual haunting grounds scattered all around the world. They’ve even partnered with the owners of castles, churches, asylums, graveyards and various other private properties with histories of paranormal activity so they can rebuild each to be fully explorable in-game, with or without a VR headset.
Ghost Theory will feature a single-player campaign with fully interactive, non-linear environments that have been designed with a focus on stealth and exploration gameplay. There will not be a traditional combat system, so Barbara will need to rely on an array of ghost hunting gadgets and her own clairvoyant abilities to survive.
If they can raise the $141,439 they’re asking for, the plan is have it out on PC by late 2017.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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