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Alone In The Dark Until Dawn

Added: 28.08.2015 3:18 | 16 views | 0 comments

How many games can say they invented a genre? Not many. However, Alone in the Dark can. Launching in 1992, the game was revolutionary in multiple ways. It had 2D pre-rendered backgrounds with 3D polygon characters. The mixture of formats required static camera angles in order for the technology to work. The programmers took this problem and turned it into genius, by creating odd and claustrophobic camera angles that added to the atmosphere.