PopHorror Let's Get Scared
Pokémon GO has taken the world by storm. It has introduced people to a new type of mobile gaming; getting up and walking around while your smartphone camera imposes images onto your screen in real time. I have to admit, while marketed as a children’s game, many adults (including myself) play Pokémon GO. A new, revolutionary game like this will inevitably inspire creative inception in other game developers. There is already one such game that is due for release on Halloween of this year called Night Terrors. According the title of the game, I doubt many Pokémon GO players under 12 years old will download this one.
Night Terrors was announced in May of 2015 and Pokémon GO was announced in September of that same year, so the horror model actually came first. Night Terrors, however, was an Indiegogo project that relied on donations. Pokémon GO was obviously a big studio announcement from Nintendo and Niantic. I’m sure that Pokémon GO releasing earlier than Night Terrors can only be better marketing for Novum Analytics, the developer of this ghostly new mobile game.
The premise of Night Terrors is pretty simple. While wearing headphones, you play the game at night with all the lights off and your phone projects ghostly images and spooky sounds all around you. The game can also “interfere” with your phone’s operating system, sending frightening texts and pictures. Here is the official synopsis of the game from Novum Analytics:
Night Terrors is a highly immersive, photorealistic, binaural, augmented reality survival horror game for mobile devices. Gameplay takes place at home, after dark, with the lights off and your headphones on.
This game is the stuff of nightmares! Lucky for me and all the horror fans reading this, we like nightmares. A good nightmare is like being in a horror movie, and this game is the equivalent of live action, virtual bad dreams – hence the title Night Terrors. So instead of handing out candy or trying to pop out from behind a curtain to scare unsuspecting children this Halloween, I’ll be running around my house playing this game… probably with an adult diaper on.
Omg, my heart was racing just watching that trailer for the game. I want this game… But I don’t want it… All at the same time… I live by myself and this is the stuff of nightmares. I mean, who is going to protect me at night when I’ve totally scared the shit out of myself with this game?!
This looks cool, but Niantic produced Ingress years ago and used a lot of the same architecture to make Pokemon GO work. So, theres no particular point in arguing this or that came first in the realm of AR games. Ingress came first. And Niantic’s experience producing Ingress definitely aided their production time For Pokemon, although the failure of the tracking system and other bugs makes me think they should have kept at it longer.
Also, I’m wondering what game play is like in Night Terrors. Wandering the house looking at spooky stuff will be good for 10-15 minutes of diversion. Is one supposed to bust some ghosts? Exorcise them? Pretend to get scared and run away?
I can’t find this in the App Store!
Is it a ios only app? Dont see it in android market
It hasn’t come out yet for android. Comes out on Halloween!
“Pokémon GO was obviously a big studio announcement from Nintendo and Niantic.”
Not so obviously… Just as an FYI, Nintendo had nothing to do with Pokémon Go. Their stock price took almost a 20% tumble when they announced that.
Nintendo, Google, and Niantic all own equal shares of the game. Their stock dropped when it was clarified that they only owned a 3rd of the product.
I don’t do Apple products. Please put this out on Android via Google Play Store and I’ll play. Sad that it’s not on there. Looks like fun!
This looks like an awesome game, but the opening paragraph just annoyed me. Pokemon Go isn’t marketed as a children’s game, in fact it’s marketed towards the millenials who grew up with Pokemon, are smartphone owners, have spending capabilities, and traveling capabilities. You have to do a lot of exploring (and driving to different locations) to play this game. That’s something that’s not going to be possible for the average kid under the age of 15. They would need their parents to take them all over the place, which the parents likely won’t be down with doing unless they were also playing too. Maybe my parents were just strict, but they never would’ve “wasted their gas” as they put it, to drive me to places for the sake of a video game lol. As an adult though, my friends and I have no problem wasting gas for the sake of a game and going out on the town specifically to hunt fake monsters. There’s also the issue that most children I know aren’t smartphone owners. The few children I know who play this app do so on their parent’s phones, so they also don’t get nearly as much play time as adults who are playing on their own phone.
Children are certainly welcome to play the app, don’t get me wrong, but I absolutely disagree that children are the target audience for Pokemon Go. Of all the people I’ve seen playing the app, 99% of them have been over the age of 18.
Anyway, I love horror and this other app looks cool too. However, I feel like you would probably be able to play this app from your own home, unlike Pokemon Go which required you to travel in order to find anything.
Is this released yet.? I can’t find it on my iPhone 😫
so awesome for people tha love horror games
Um excuse me pokemon WAS NOT marketed as a kids game… it WAS marketed for adults as kids cant freely go out by thenselves at night (content changes at night). The advertisements even SHOW ADULTS playing in parks and other public places… you only see kids watching their mother play as she attempts to catch a charizard… so next time get your facts straight. Im not even gonna read the rest of the article when i see you even get it right from the start.
There is a Fatal Frame game for Nintendo DS which is very similar!
is it played like the pokemon go?
I will never play this in my own home. Imagine putting down the phone and the thing is still there… Arrgh!
The commercial itself is disturbing. I would hope that no one would use an app to torment and abuse a child like that. That’s sad.
When does this come out? I want it
It’s out on Halloween as it says.
4 out of 14 commenters “cant find the game”. READ the article one more time and be enlightened.
too bad it’s not free like pokemon go.
Next best thing to a haunted house right? haha
Our group managed to get the beta and the gameplay was pretty good!
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We can’t wait till the actual game comes out 😀
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Im kinda bummed. Cant wait for this to come out but its not in my play store. Please is anyone else having this issue. I hope it gets in the store soon im dying to play it.