DreadOut
| DreadOut | |
|---|---|
| Studio | Digital happiness |
| Publisher | PT Digital Semantika Indonesia |
| Senior Developer | Rendy Basuki |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
May 15, 2014 |
| platform | Microsoft Windows , OS X , Linux |
| Game engine | Unity |
| genre | Survival horror |
| Game mode | Single player |
| control | mouse and keyboard |
| medium | Download |
| language | English |
DreadOut is an Indonesian Survival horror - video game , that of digital Happiness for Windows , OS X and Linux has been developed. It's about fictional ghosts, of which you have to take photos with the camera in the game - similar to the game Project Zero . The game received the“green light”on Steam Greenlight and can therefore be downloaded there.
Gameplay
DreadOut is a third person survival horror game that is similar to Project Zero but more modern. The player Linda uses modern devices such as smartphones and digital video cameras to interact with various Indonesian myth-ghosts and to solve puzzles in a deserted city. When Linda dies in the game, she wakes up in the dark with bright candles and has to walk back to life from a distance that increases with each death.
The game includes both first and third person views, with the player navigating the area with the “over the shoulder” perspective. If you choose to use the digital camera to take a picture, you switch to first-person view to see Linda's camera. A current preview video shows a tablet version of the game where the player can control Linda with a touchscreen.
action
A group of high school students lost on their vacation trip to Indonesia explore an old and deserted city. The students quickly realize that something is wrong with the place. The protagonist Linda Meilinda receives a spiritual power that can protect her and her friends from the supernatural.
Act I.
Linda Meilinda, her classmates Ira, Shelly, Doni and Yayan and their teacher Ms. Siska go on a journey where they turn wrong and come across a collapsed bridge. You continue on foot and end up in a deserted city. The group finds an abandoned school building that everyone except Linda and Ira wants to explore. Hours later, the sun sets and the group returns to the car, where they find that Yayan did not return from school. Everyone decides to look for her inside the building. Ira seems obsessed and the group is trapped in the building while Linda breaks up with the others. For the remainder of the game, the player explores the hallways of the school as Linda using her smartphone to ward off the ghosts by taking photos of them.
Linda encounters several hostile spirits, including a large boar-like creature and a scissor-wielding phantom. She notices a couple of keys hanging on the pork neck but cannot take them. On the first floor she comes into a room where she is attacked by the phantom scissors and receives the scissors as a reward. She uses this to cut off the keys from the sleeping pig. Linda tries to use the keys to open the school entrance doors. A mysterious ghost in a red dress suddenly appears, interrupts her and chases her through the halls. When Linda manages to escape the ghost, her classmates are still missing.
Act II
Follows
reception
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DreadOut received mixed reviews. The average score is 51.50% for GameRankings and a weighted score of 56/100 for Metacritic .
Film adaptation and successor
At the end of 2018, a film adaptation of the game directed by Kimo Stamboel was announced. The film, produced by Goodhouse.id, was released in Indonesia on January 3, 2019. The film is available on Netflix in Southeast Asia .
In addition, a successor for the game was announced with DreadOut 2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Interview with the creators of DreadOut . SurvivalHorrorOnline.com. May 29, 2013. Archived from the original on June 6, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
- ↑ Indie Horror Title “DreadOut” Breathes Life Into the Genre . All that's epic. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- ^ Another take on horror: DreadOut . BeefJack. Archived from the original on August 24, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- ↑ DreadOut - Eye On . LupoEntertainment. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- ↑ [Indie Horror Spotlight 'DreadOut' Has A Very Persistent Mosquito] . Bloody disgusting . Retrieved May 10, 2013.
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↑ Experience The Indonesian Horror . In: DreadOut . Retrieved December 27, 2013: “When a group of high school students stray from their vacation trip, they discover an old deserted town. They begin to realize that something sinister is happening as soon as they enter the town. Linda, as the main protagonist, feels the stirrings of a strange and mystical power within herself. This spiritual power just might be the only way to save herself and her friends from an unknown evil.
Linda has lots of modern gadgets at her disposal [,] including smartphones, digital cameras, and digital video cameras. With these instruments [,] she can interact with and capture the various kinds of unique South [e] ast Asian [g] hosts that you will have never seen before, and also solve the many varied puzzles of the deserted town [.] " - ↑ Linda Meilinda . In: DreadOut . February 10, 2013. Archived from the original on December 28, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 27, 2013.
- ↑ a b DreadOut for PC . GameRankings . Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ↑ a b DreadOut for PC Reviews . Metacritic . Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ↑ Philip Kollar: DreadOut review: old ghosts . In: polygon . Vox Media. May 21, 2014. Retrieved October 26, 2014.
- ↑ Sascha Asendorf: DreadOut - Indonesian horror game is filmed. In: survivethis.news. December 4, 2018, accessed August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ See "DreadOut" on Netflix yet? In: Steam . June 18, 2019, accessed August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Febrianto Nur Anwari: Most Popular Indonesian Horror Game, DreadOut Gets Its Sequel. In: Game Prime. Accessed August 20, 2019 .
