any homebrews out there based on the works of lovecraft?

[xg4bx]

if not, there should be. something like "at the mountains of madness" would be perfect for a game or text adventure.

[TROGDOR]

There's nothing that I'm aware of, but I agree, this is essential.

 

Come to think of it, the first survival horror game wasn't Alone in the Dark. It was Haunted House. It has all the elements:

 

- You are too weak to kill anything in the game.

- You're constantly running from things that are trying to kill you.

- It's scary as hell.

 

Haunted House would be a good foundation to design a Lovecraft game on, either as a hack, or better yet, a modified 8k or 16k game with more detail and a variety of mythos monsters.

 

Imagines 8-bit green tentacles coming out of the floor.

 

BTW, if you haven't played

, I highly recommend it. I'm in the process of buying a set of 5.1 surround sound headphones so I can freak myself out properly.

 

What was that noise? They're coming. They're coming to get me!

[PkK]

if not, there should be. something like "at the mountains of madness" would be perfect for a game or text adventure.

 

While I've read a lot of Lovecraft's works and am a homebrew programmer, making his works into video games would be a difficult task: His stories live from a horror of the unknown and undescriptable. The reader wonders about the things that are too horrible for the narrator to describe. This won't work when the shoggoth is a pile of pixels on a computer screen (and maybe even less on a 15 color 256x192 screen that has even further limitations).

 

Philipp

 

P.S.: I haven't played "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth"; I've heard it's a good game, but full of unfixed bugs.