{"id":8160,"date":"2011-09-07T09:57:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreamdawn.com\/sh\/post_view.php?index=8160"},"modified":"2011-09-07T09:57:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:57:15","slug":"biometric-analysis-of-horror-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/?p=8160","title":{"rendered":"Biometric Analysis of Horror Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra is running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/6480\/scary_game_findings_a_study_of_.php\">the most complete biometrics study of horror games<\/a> that I&#8217;ve seen.  It&#8217;s fascinating research, and the end page of conclusions is particularly useful for the horror game designer.  Most interestingly to me, the study finds key differences between how &#8220;core&#8221; gamers and &#8220;casual&#8221; gamers are scared.  Core games see through scripted sequences and are less scared by them; casual gamers are not as familiar with the language of games and are thus more affected by scripted sequences and cutscenes.  <a href = \"?p=13900000\">Alan Wake<\/a> and <i>Dead Space 2<\/i> were effective with both groups, but <a href = \"?p=9500000\">Condemned<\/a> was more effective with core players than casual.  This is great stuff, check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra is running the most complete biometrics study of horror games that I&#8217;ve seen. It&#8217;s fascinating research, and the end page of conclusions is particularly useful for the horror game designer. Most interestingly to me, the study finds key differences between how &#8220;core&#8221; gamers and &#8220;casual&#8221; gamers are scared. Core games see through scripted sequences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horror.dreamdawn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}