I'm actually all for horror Buy Fifa 14 Coins tackling mental health issues,says Raze. It's a pretty good genre to use to raise awareness ofhow hard living with a mental illness can be, for example, but it'snot especially common to find something which handles ittactfully/intelligently. Most of the time you end up with lazytropes, regurgitating public misconception about the field ofmental health, and to me that's exactly what you want to avoid whencreating art. Your work should aim to enlighten people and makethem think, rather than just recycle a bunch of ignorant nonsense[...] Mental illness as a punchline has become anexceptionally easy deus ex machina, and an easy excuse for badwriting.
I've written horror stories about characters with mental healthissues -- as someone who's dealt with them myself, I'd like to beable to share experiences with that kind of thing -- but I'vealways tried to approach them without going for the whole'surprise, this person is mentally ill!' twist.
On the topic of using mental illness as an easy (and lazy)explanation device, Raze concludes: I'm not entirely sure whyanyone would want to do it, really. It's a lot more fun to dealwith ambiguity, the unknown, to try and instil creeping dread inthe player or reader through fiction and imagination. Sepulchreparticularly plays on the concept of the player asking 'what thehell is going on?' and I really liked the setting we chose to framethat -- trains can be damn creepy, really. In fact almost anysetting can be creepy if you set out to make it so. Some of themost interesting horror takes place in unlikely locations. It's oneof the best ways to create fear, to change peoples' perceptions andexpectations of a location.
For further play recommendations, horror games singled out forpraise by Asylum Jam include Slender: The Eight Pages(which Wired.co.uk can confirm is ridiculously scary) and Among The Sleep -- a creepy work-in-progress from Norway'sKrillbite Studio which follows a babygro-clad toddler around a darkhouse in the middle of the night.
If you're interested in participating, the Asylum Jam willprovide details on sign-up closer to the event via the official site.