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Indie Horror Game Project ‘Negative Atmosphere’ Aims to Fill the Void Left By ‘Dead Space’
If it’s not miserable enough to remind you that Silent Hill is 20 today and yet has no signs of life as a franchise, I may as well throw a reminder that Dead Space is also looking like a goner. It seems the only way these games are coming back is through the works of others inspired by those franchises.
In the case of Dead Space‘s influence, look no further than the indie horror game project Negative Atmosphere, a promising concept on the horizon that looks to capture the essence of the space-faring survival horror (and even a bit of System Shock for good measure).
In development for only a matter of months, Negative Atmosphere has shown great potential. Its creator Calvin Parsons had initially started the project alone, but now has a small team and with the help of backers, hopes to create an hour-long vertical slice to release for free in order to drum up interest for a Kickstarter fund for a full game.
Have a gander at some brief clips and screens of how it’s looking so far.
You can clearly see its influences, and that’s no bad thing. If EA isn’t going to do something with what it has, then someone else might as well do so.
If you fancy contributing to the project, you can head to the project’s Patreon fund and donate there. Otherwise, there’s a Reddit and a Discord channel to keep up to date with the project.
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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