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Classic Game Postmortem: Alone in the Dark

GDC Festival of Gaming3 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2019-2023
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Frederick Raynal gives a GDC postmortem of Alone in the Dark, the game that helped create the survival horror genre. He covers how the team built it and shows some of the old tools used.

HN commenters recommend it as a firsthand account from the creator, including the old tooling.

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3 comments from Hacker News

@smokel2023 · in “How the creator of Alone in the Dark came back to games”

Note that both Little Big Adventure (also called Twinsen's Adventure) and Alone in the Dark were created by the same person, Frédérick Raynal! There is a very nice presentation [1] in which Raynal shows some of the old tools that were used to create Alone in the Dark. I'm still not entirely sure what kind of rendering is being used, but the editor sure looks nice (in 640x350 EGA). Perhaps there is some more background information on LBA out there as well? [1] ▶ this video

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@pengaru2020 · in “Alpha Waves was the first 3D platform game”

Also worth a watch/listen is the talk by Frederick Raynal at GDC about Alone in the Dark. He touches on converting Alpha Waves from Atari ST to PC: ▶ this video

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@nope962019 · in “Alone in the Dark”

There's also a great "Classic Game Postmortem" video from 2012 by Frederick Raynal, too: ▶ this video

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