#Amnesia the dark descent lore update
#Amnesia the dark descent lore series

#Amnesia the dark descent lore update

Soma had a 'safe mode' update post-launch that removed the monsters. 2015's Soma veered into the futuristic unknown, away from the medieval past of Amnesia: The Dark Descent. I think this has been extremely beneficial for the game. This allowed us to put a high level of focus from an early stage and still have the whole team on board with it. All those who were on the old team knew what to expect and for newer team members we could always use Soma as a reference. Rebirth will also go for a similar approach and it has been much easier for the team this time. This was really hard for the team, and many didn't understand what we were after until very late. Instead the true nature of the game only became apparent after a few hours of play. Soma was really hard to work on as you couldn't sum up the goals of the game in simple, contained gameplay sections. TG: Lots! The biggest one is to have narrative pay-offs over a longer time-span. Were there any lessons learned from developing Soma that you're looking to bring to Amnesia? I think people will feel that Rebirth is much more of a direct sequel than A Machine For Pigs. Rebirth has lots of story connections to the first game, and many of the old mechanics are still there, in revised forms. It was more of a follow-up in terms of themes and atmosphere.

TG: A Machine For Pigs had almost no connections to The Dark Descent when it came to either story or mechanics. We might have returned to Amnesia earlier if Soma didn't take so long to make!ĭo you see Rebirth as a sequel to The Dark Descent? And if so, where does that leave A Machine for Pigs?

For instance, the desert is an interesting place for a horror game to take place in. It started out as us mainly wanting to explore various environments mentioned in the first game's lore. Thomas Grip, creative director: We had ideas that we wanted to try out and felt that now was the time. USgamer: It's been just about a decade since the original Amnesia. So why is now the time to return to Amnesia, and what lessons has the studio learned in the years since? Creative director Thomas Grip and creative lead Fredrik Olsson gave us some insight into how the years and successes have helped Frictional Games grow into a new version of itself. In that time though, Frictional's been growing internally, getting ready to roll out more games on a faster pace than once every half-decade. Over the last decade, Frictional Games has only developed two games.

#Amnesia the dark descent lore series

After the series debut and one slice of DLC, the studio left The Chinese Room to pick up on the threads with Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs while Frictional worked on 2015's underwater techno-thriller, Soma. It's easy to stomach the frights if you're not the only one scared, after all.Īmnesia: Rebirth, announced last week, is Frictional Games' return to the world of Amnesia. Frictional Games' first-person scarefest didn't just set a benchmark, it struck at the perfect time to capture the eyes of a burgeoning YouTube audience. It's been almost a decade since Amnesia: The Dark Descent, but you can still feel its effect on modern horror.