What Makes Horror Games Scary?

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Kirk Hamilton, Society & Culture, Video Games, Jason Schreier, Maddy Myers, Arts, Technology

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

BOO! To celebrate Spooky Spring, Jason, Maddy, and Kirk dive into some of their favorite horror games and talk about what makes a video game scary. How does interactivity enhance horror? What's the difference between "dread" and "panic"? And are controls sometimes meant to be terrible?

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0:00.0	It was a dark and stormy night.
0:06.2	Three friends sat down around a campfire much like this one, and behind them, in the
0:10.0	darkness, a killer video game!
0:13.2	Welcome to Triple Click, where we bring the games to you.
0:15.4	This week we're talking about horror games, and just what it is that lets video games
0:18.2	be so uniquely scary.
0:19.6	It's one thing to see a spooky door, it's quite another to walk through the spooky
0:23.4	door, so let's walk through the spooky door together, yeah?
0:30.3	I'm Per Camelton.
0:31.3	I'm Maddie Myers.
0:32.8	And I'm Jason Dreyer, hello!
0:34.2	Hello!
0:35.2	Hello!
0:36.2	Hello there, both of you.
0:37.2	You guys, after two years of avoiding the stupid virus, I have picked up COVID.
0:41.9	My entire family really picked up.
0:43.4	My wife got it in the city and brought it home to me, so it's her fault.
0:46.7	Yeah, so we have to be really careful on this episode.
0:48.7	Yeah, well, stay away from you.
0:50.6	You don't want to transfer it through Skype.
0:52.4	Yeah, I really, really, really, I mean, I spent a lot into my microphone, so you guys pick
0:58.2	up so much.
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