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Classic Game Postmortem: Alone in the Dark

Frederick Raynal gives a GDC postmortem of Alone in the Dark, the game that helped create the survival horror genre. He covers how the team built it and shows some of the old tools used.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters recommend it as a firsthand account from the creator, including the old tooling.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
GDC Festival of Gaming
Topic
game development history
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • There's also a great "Classic Game Postmortem" video from 2012 by Frederick Raynal, too: [VIDEO]

    nope96 on Hacker News · 2019-08
    In Alone in the Dark

  • Also worth a watch/listen is the talk by Frederick Raynal at GDC about Alone in the Dark. He touches on converting Alpha Waves from Atari ST to PC: [VIDEO]

    pengaru on Hacker News · 2020-06
    In Alpha Waves was the first 3D platform game

  • Note that both Little Big Adventure (also called Twinsen's Adventure) and Alone in the Dark were created by the same person, Frédérick Raynal! There is a very nice presentation [1] in which Raynal shows some of the old tools that were used to create Alone …

    smokel on Hacker News · 2023-10
    In How the creator of Alone in the Dark came back to games

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