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Survival Horror Story: Catequesis Is Pixelated Madness

A modern horror game with some decidedly 90s vibes.

Nov. 18 2013

Posted by: Patrick

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Yeah, the tenses in a lot of those sentences were pretty off.

Game looks cool, though.

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Anyone know the name of the classical song playing during the trailer? I know that I've heard it before but I can't remember the name/composer at all...

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I think the scariest part is figuring out how to pronounce it.

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Cat-uhh-kay-sis

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Edited By Scofthe7seas

@imbiginjapan:

See, I'm on the fence about this. I'm super sick of recent games using "pixel art." It's not retro anymore. It's trendy. If the art is good, it's basically just down-res'ed regular art. Otherwise it is exactly what you said. However, I know that if -I- wanted to make a game, I'm absolute crap at art, and that would be a very easy way for me to make the best of what I want to do whilst masking where my talents are lacking.

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When?

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Corpse Party is another great one in this vain

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Edited By ImBigInJapan

I don't begrudge anyone for using low res pixel art or top-down 2d style. Nowadays I see it less as an attempted homage to retro gaming or appeal to nostalgia and more as a means for people who may not be natural artists or just resource limited to create a consistent style on a budget. It's not necessarily in the power of every indie dev with a good idea to find a visual artist who can create art assets to the scale that would be needed for a fully 3D or a more detailed 2D style like Limbo or even Terraria.

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@mcdayman said:

This game looks cool. Reading the title, though, I can't help but imagine (and want) a "Survival Horror Story" in line with the Game Dev Story archetype. What would that even be!?

A game where you hire Grizzly Bearington, Chimpan Z, and Kairobot to run around a campsite disemboweling sexy teens. I'd play the shit out of that game.

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This game looks cool. Reading the title, though, I can't help but imagine (and want) a "Survival Horror Story" in line with the Game Dev Story archetype. What would that even be!?

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Ah cool a new indie game.

...oh it's yet another top down 2D game.

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"I personally care about all my patients" *every patient explodes in to guts*

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I love this game! I can't wait for it to finally release.

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Tits monster. Freud would love this.

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Reminds me of 7 Days a Skeptic and 5 Days a Stranger.
If you like horror and point and click adventures (expecially old SCUMM ones) give it a try.
@patrickklepek You should play them on Scooping with Scoops considering how much you liked that horror adventure game with crows (can't remember the name)

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The game looks like it could be interesting but I really wish the style of overly pixelated shitty art would just stop.

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looks good

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Reminds me a bit of Lone Survivor. I ultimately didn't like the pixel-heavy presentation in that game...

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Daniel should become a concert pianist and give up on this whole survivor horror thing.

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Intrigued. The dialogue is a bit simple and seems translated. But done well, that's as much a retro style choice as pixel art is. Hopefully it will improve as the game gets developed.

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Nice tunage

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In an ocean of "old school" pixel art titles this one seems like it might actually do it right, I'm cautiously optimistic for this one!

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I'm digging the environments and music.

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That reminded of Splatterhouse, of all things.

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Could be pretty cool, even though I'm kinda annoyed by the whole old school pixel look by now.

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Hey Daniel? run.

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Wow.