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Two Fan Remakes Attempt to Recreate ‘P.T.’ for PC
Okay, enough Resident Evil 2 talk. Time to move on to something that we’ve longed to see come back, but we’ll have to settle for the consolation prizes: P.T., aka the playable teaser for Silent Hills.
We know Silent Hills is gone and very likely won’t be coming back, but that hasn’t stopped fans from creating their own games in the spirit of the game, like Visage and Allison Road. There are also those who have devoted time to recreating P.T. for PC users (since they never got the demo in the first place).
The first remake is called Corridors, and is a recreation of P.T. in Unreal Engine 4. It’s still rough around the edges, but creator SmoggyChips plans to update it with more levels in the future.
The second remake comes from a Redditor named LinusPixel, who managed to extract animation, map, and texture files from the original P.T., and is attempting to stitch them together in a new engine. Again, it’s not perfect, but you can at least see how it is by downloading it here.
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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