http://www.polygon.com/2013/2/7/3965608/daylight-is-unreal-engine-4s-first-frightening-game

In Daylight, players will take on the role of a woman who wakes up in the middle of the night to find herself in the heart of an abandoned insane asylum with no memory of how she got there. The asylum writhes with the terrible past experiences that took place there over the centuries and the spirits of those mistreated within its walls.

i never would have expected this,

and it sounds legitimately interesting, procedurally generated horror game where there are no weapons, no ways to fight back, only way to survive is to run. worked well for amnesia.

apparently she is part of a team of 6 at a studio called zombie studios, and that the story was inspired by a mashup of of Chobot's youth spent "urban spelunking and a healthy dose of urban legend, conspiracy theory and ghost stories"

color me interested

It could be good. Interesting if sort of rehashed premise. From listening to a few podcasts at IGN she had mentioned that she tries to write now and again and had written a few stories. I don't think they had ever been published though. I'm interested whether her name being associated with the game will hurt or help the game. She seems like a nice person but she has a reputation, unfairly placed if you ask me but people are free to think what they will, that might hurt the game depending on who is meant to purchase it.

" wakes up in the middle of the night to find herself in the heart of an abandoned insane asylum with no memory of how she got there."

Very cool. I approve!

A expect a lot of folk to be turned off by the fact that the game is written by a journalist who has been used as a sex model by IGN, but she's a journalist nonetheless and I myself interested in this game despite all things.

hopefully it's good so people can stop ragging on her so much

(was she PSP licker or epic... epic for the win or both)

@Animasta said:

hopefully it's good so people can stop ragging on her so much

(was she PSP licker or epic... epic for the win or both)

For sure the PSP licker. It was either her or Olivia Munn that did the 'epic' thing.

@Tru3_Blu3 said:

A expect a lot of folk to be turned off by the fact that the game is written by a journalist who has been used as a sex model by IGN, but she's a journalist nonetheless and I myself interested in this game despite all things.

A sex model? She was a host dude. That's like saying attractive female hosts of TV shows are sex models.

This is going to be the Dark Sector of the next generation, calling it.

I'm digging the premise. At least it ain't another Slender clone that seems to overrun Steam Greenlight.

The main character will also be voiced by Chobot? I'm out then. She might be a brilliant writer for all I know but a good voiceactress she is not.

@Cloudenvy said:

The main character will also be voiced by Chobot? I'm out then. She might be a brilliant writer for all I know but a good voiceactress she is not.

eh, I don't think it's impossible that she's better in this, considering she's involved with the production and what not

@Animasta said:

@Cloudenvy said:

The main character will also be voiced by Chobot? I'm out then. She might be a brilliant writer for all I know but a good voiceactress she is not.

eh, I don't think it's impossible that she's better in this, considering she's involved with the production and what not

And I imagine that she took some training. Right? I mean she had to have.

Theres another game exploring the same concept, that so far looks better produced, but what do I care. It's my kind of genre and I'll follow it to release

@JasonR86 said:

@Animasta said:

@Cloudenvy said:

The main character will also be voiced by Chobot? I'm out then. She might be a brilliant writer for all I know but a good voiceactress she is not.

eh, I don't think it's impossible that she's better in this, considering she's involved with the production and what not

And I imagine that she took some training. Right? I mean she had to have.

or maybe they'll just make her go through a similar environment and actually scare her IRL, totally works!

like that sunn o)))) song where they put a claustrophobic guy in a casket and made him do vocals

@JasonR86 said:

@Animasta said:

@Cloudenvy said:

The main character will also be voiced by Chobot? I'm out then. She might be a brilliant writer for all I know but a good voiceactress she is not.

eh, I don't think it's impossible that she's better in this, considering she's involved with the production and what not

And I imagine that she took some training. Right? I mean she had to have.

It's not impossible but I don't think it's likely either. I guess we'll just have to wait and see!

The amnesia trope is a writing crutch, and it's so overused that if it were a dead horse it'd be beaten into glue by now.

The idea of having a randomly generated area to wander through is interesting, but the premise is so boring that I just can't get interested in it.

I'm very skeptical of her abilities. I guess we'll see.

@ShadowConqueror: Absolutely. People need to give her a chance at least. Also that she wrote the story the game is based on doesn't make her directly responsible for crap gameplay does it?

@Mirado said:

The amnesia trope is a writing crutch, and it's so overused that if it were a dead horse it'd be beaten into glue by now.

The idea of having a randomly generated area to wander through is interesting, but the premise is so boring that I just can't get interested in it.

But what about when it turns out YOU WERE ALWAYS IN THE ASYLUM!!! or YOU DIED IN THE ASYLUM AND DON'T KNOW YOU'RE A GHOST!!! or YOU HAVE DORMANT MAGICAL POWERS!!!!!! etc.

I'll give it a chance, but yeah, amnesia is hard to get right.

@msavo said:

This is going to be the Dark Sector of the next generation, calling it.

Dark Sector was pretty good. I liked it at least.

sounds like it could be interesting, I hope they realise their goals with the project and that people's prejudices don't damage what seems to clearly be a heartfelt love of involvement in the videogame industry on Jessica Chobot's part.

Also prepare for thousands of let's plays of this by over reacting youtubers. It was called here, you all saw it.

@LiquidPrince said:

@msavo said:

This is going to be the Dark Sector of the next generation, calling it.

Dark Sector was pretty good. I liked it at least.

I just think it will have the same legacy. One of the first announced next gen games, gets delayed, changes focus, comes out and is merely average/disappointing.

@Mirado: Amnesia has been used to excellent effect many times in games. It's commonly used because it suits games very well. it allows for a character study in which the player becomes acquainted with the protagonist's past and personality at the same time the protagonist is learning about his/her own self. The use of the amnesia trope is not by itself a mark of hack writing; only poor use of it is.

Just heard about it - wasn't aware of the Chobot connection. Love her or hate her, I wish her well and success in this endeavor - maybe she's the next *insert famous writer here*, only for video games.

I really what to know what "urban spelunking" is.

Also, this premise seems epic. Epic For The Win.

Yeesh, I'm really sorry about that, everybody. Whoo boy, that was bad. Honestly, it does seem like a pretty intriguing premise, and the procedurally generated nature of the design seems promising. Personally, I don't have a problem with Jessica Chobot. If she wants to branch out into creative development in the games industry, then more power to her. She seems to have her heart in the right place, so hopefully, this game turns out to be a cool experience both for the development team and the people who will end up playing it.

@Animasta: She's both.

@Animasta said:

hopefully it's good so people can stop ragging on her so much

(was she PSP licker or epic... epic for the win or both)

shes both actually, she has another meme shes known for, but i cant remember what it was specifically.

@chrissedoff: It's been done poorly more often than it has been successful, but that isn't the point; it's the overuse that I'm complaining about. I'm not talking about bad writing, I'm talking about lazy writing; amnesia has been done to death and at this point I'll take a mediocre original idea over a successful example of an amnesia trope.

@Mirado: There's no such thing as new ideas, just new twists on some old ones.

@mrfluke: @TwoArmed: eh, it's been years now and one dumb saying and one slightly wet PSP shouldn't impact how people feel about the game (it will, but it shouldn't).

I would like to see a game set inside a well-furnished mental health facility, staffed by warm & friendly trained professionals.

Do we lick a PSP?

@BeachThunder said:

I would like to see a game set inside a well-furnished mental health facility, staffed by warm & friendly trained professionals.

isn't there one in hitman: blood money?

@BeachThunder said:

I would like to see a game set inside a well-furnished mental health facility, staffed by warm & friendly trained professionals.

A good portion of The Darkness II takes place in a normal mental hospital.

So it's Disney's haunted mansion, but in an asylum instead? Or maybe even Clock Tower esque?

Premise seems pretty much like a bare-bones horror book, curious to see how it plays out.

If her voice is in it, I'll pass. It just grates me ever since I heard in in Mass Effect 3, that was terrible.

Hope it is good. It would be nice if she could change her image to one of respect for a quality game.

A horror game without zombies? Yeah, sure. Color me mildly interested. I'll have to wait for mor information.

@Animasta: ur right, but considering how prolific shes still been (being in mass effect 3) its probably how people still haven't let it down

I won't judge anything based on anything, I will wait to learn how well this game plays and then and only then I will have an opinion.

You wake up in an insane asylum with no idea how you got there.


So, you're an insane person who has been put in an asylum. And all the monsters you see are just orderlies and doctors keeping you from escaping. And you kill them all and escape.

Right? How could it possibly be anything else?

Trying to move on and appreciate her career as a whole, but she totally licked that PSP.

getting a fetal frame vibe from the picture, so if its as good then im in.

Amnesia? Abandoned insane asylum? Tortured spirits? Seriously? Seriously?

Sounds great, albeit cliche. Hopefully, if it's good, it doesn't get unfairly torn apart due to it being written by Chobot.

@Ravenlight said:

Trying to move on and appreciate her career as a whole, but she totally licked that PSP.

there is no redemption

I'll give this a shot like I'd give any other game a shot regardless of how many PSP's were licked. I think that still being held against her is sorta dumb but whatever. I will say though unless she's improved considerably she might be better off getting good voice actors to make the game as good as it can be. She was sorta just ok in ME3.

Premise isn't anything that gets me excited but some aspects mentioned about the game are definitely interesting. I don't particularly care if Chobot is involved but I think mentioning how heavily involved she is could end up being more of a detriment, there will be negative reaction. Even as someone who's going to try and look at the game with an nonjudgmental approach I'm sure I won't be able to shake the fact that this is being worked on by someone who's known as idiot first, videogame host/journalist second.

I'm willing to give her a shot at this. If it sucks, though... Man, God help her.

@Demoskinos said:

Do we lick a PSP?

The more important question is will the game be epic?

The story premise doesn't excite me at all and I'm not often interested by horror genre writing, but hopefully it's surprisingly good.