A new horror game for your phone will have you scared of your own home. Novum Analytics is making a game called Night Terrors that uses your phone’s camera to conjure creepy scenarios for players as you try to survive.
According to Novum, the game is played in the dark within the comfort of your own home. Using the smart phone’s camera and flashlight tool, the game then maps out the layout of your house. As you walk around through the dark, creepy things can and will appear on your camera’s screen.
The game can even recognize and manipulate wall art that you have on your wall! Since it takes a layout of your home using your camera, it can send you creepy messages on the wall or even knock down pictures.
This of course would only be on camera and luckily, not in real life. Other features of the game include the manipulation of your phone’s flashlight, giving the app power to turn off your flashlight while you wander through the dark should a ghost decide to do so.
There is a plot to this ghost spawning game. The game creators have revealed that the story of Night Terrors is that a little girl has been taken and trapped inside your house. Your objective is to find and save her before the various ghouls lurking about do and survive the search in the process. You can do that by listening into the game’s audio and following the sound of her cries of course. How freaky is that?
As of right now the game has no official release date. Novum is trying to create the game to be playable on all smartphone devices, although the first initial release may just be for the iPhone. Right now the game is underway in the testing phase. Which means we might not have to wait too much longer for it.
The company promises that this augmented reality game will be the scariest mobile game to date. It will be able to adjust to home floor plans accordingly, giving you your own personal nightmare to venture through. Will it actually live up to that title? We will just have to stay tuned for the game’s release to find out.
Lindsey Huff
Intern