Matt Chat 35: Alone in the Dark

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Matt Barton

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Published on October 30, 2009 10:18:12 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id-IxFTb6Wk

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Alone in the Dark (1992)

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This week's Matt Chat covers Infogrames' Alone in the Dark, the granddaddy of survival horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Released in 1992, Alone in the Dark introduced a number of important conventions that would show up in many later games, particularly its mix of static and dynamic graphical elements. While the backgrounds were pre-rendered and detailed, the moving objects (characters, monsters, etc.) were rendered on-the-fly and composed of colored polygons. While this setup would be a liability in most types of games, it worked very well for horror. Have a happy Halloween!

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