Phobia Research

1. Arachnophobia:

·                        The fear of spiders.

·                        This phobia tends to affect women more than men.

2. Ophidiophobia:

·                        The fear of snakes.

·                        Often attributed to evolutionary causes, personal experiences, or cultural influences.

3. Acrophobia:

·                        The fear of heights.

·                        This fear can lead to anxiety attacks and avoidance of high places.

4. Agoraphobia:

·                        The fear of situations in which escape is difficult.

·                        This may include crowded areas, open spaces, or situations that are likely to trigger a panic attack. People will begin avoiding these trigger events, sometimes to the point that they cease leaving their home.

·                        Approximately one third of people with panic disorder develop agoraphobia.

5. Cynophobia:

·                        The fear of dogs.

·                        This phobia is often associated with specific personal experiences, such as being bitten by a dog during childhood.

6. Astraphobia:

·                        The fear of thunder and lightening.

·                        Also known as Brontophobia, Tonitrophobia, or Ceraunophobia.

7. Trypanophobia:

·                        The fear of injections.

·                        Like many phobias, this fear often goes untreated because people avoid the triggering object and situation.

8. Social Phobias:

·                        The fear of social situations.

·                        In many cases, these phobias can become so severe that people avoid events, places, and people that are likely to trigger an anxiety attack.

9. Pteromerhanophobia:

·                        The fear of flying.

·                        Often treated using exposure therapy, in which the client is gradually and progressively introduced to flying.

10. Mysophobia:

·                        The fear of germs or dirt.

·                        May be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

More Abandoned Hospital Research

And mooooooore

Abandoned Hospital Research

A crap ton of sudden posts, been collecting these over the holidays but not had much time to post!

Need to split the post up, got more to come!!

Dead Space 2 developer commentary

Awesome, can't wait for this!!

Gant Chart!

My first go at my Gant Chart for my project, subject to change a little though after I read my draft marks once collected :)

The Books that will help me out this year!

so following some advice from a friend in the industry, he linked me to some UDK books I should study through my project!!

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Unreal-Technology-Introduction-Design/dp/0672329913

http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Unreal-Technology-Level-Design/dp/0672326922/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1294248134&sr=1-1

Both are purchased and sat with me right now! I've played around with them but not properly dove into them yet, that's subject to change in the next week or so!

After talking to my project guide, so to speak, It looks like Ill be beginning at least the blocking in stages of my environment in the next week or so!

Since I'm creating an Environment with two separate versions (one trying to be scary, the other neutral) I instantly thought of making my environment a Hospital.

At some point in everyone's lives, we have ALL been inside a hospital, for either good or bad reasons its an easy environment to get people to relate to in one way or another. Hospitals are generally very bland and vacant in terms of design and what's in them, and even naturally they seem pretty creepy and unsettling!

I feel that having one version of the Hospital during the day/all lights on and working, and having the corresponding version which will be very dark, abandoned and bloody will work well.

Hopefully I can utilise the lighting and textures enough to alter the player(s) pacing through each environment, thus proving how level and environment design can and will change a players pacing through out a level.

Even simply making the Hospital abandoned adds character to the environment, it makes the player sub-consciously think of the history of the environment and what went on there and WHY is it abandoned now? Usually abandoned places become that way from bad experiences, which will make the individual stuck in such a scenario to come up with their own theories of what the surroundings twisted past is.

Amnesia, The Dark Decent

This game is awesome-ly terrifying!

I think this game really fits my own brief and what I want to try achieve. The environment design is just brilliant, really creepy, dark and works so well with everything else i.e sound and animation triggers that just make it so unsettling to even watch never mind play!!

If I can do anything like this for my project, I'll be onto a winner! :D