Who wants to team up to create a horror game?

The Concept is Pretty amazing! i would totally Like to participate in it and have that honor.

Well, I'm a splendid writer and storyteller. My cousins,family, and friends where horrified as kids by stories I used to tell by the campfire. You know, I believe that to making a game,video, anything really; your're going to need someone to create the story line, or at least help create ideas, come up with monstrous thoughts that will make people jump out of their seats before the action even happens. I'm good at what I do, and seeing this I would surely love to help.

Tom

I can also help u with voice acting

iam a great painter imo :3

Children killable in games is a taboo for games. and with children I mean just human children stuff

Doesn't change the fact that it is a taboo for major gamedevelopers/publishers lol

I read a concept and i love it and i think that children are pretty scary if they want to kill somebody with knife or some sharp object so children would be an interesting part of the game imo.

I could join if it's not too late!

Why the enemies should be only like Children ? It may be like Strange creatures walking on 4 Legs with Blood all Covered it's body and it Runs at you fast with It's sharp claws Which is Named Crocoturantella .. and Monsters Like Jump out in your face from out of no where like .. From walls .. Floors .. Etc etc .. And Grab your Legs and pull you down and you try to run away from them By Pressing the same button as fast as possible, Monsters Like Shadowrs , Which Appear in Dark Areas and Scream in your face as loud as they can then attack you .. The game must contain alot of Scary,Creepy Pop-ups .. I Got a feeling this game would be a really scary scary one.

I guess I should clarify: I'm used more used to animation, meaning short films, so I really don't know much about making models for games (and how textures work, since they wrap differently, I guess). I'll still try my hand at the models when the time comes, but don't count on me to be able to get uber-professional results.

Photoshop is still my strong point, though. And audio stuff. So yeah, whatever.

If you still haven't settled for a plot you should perhaps consider the story of the ship Demeter and its crew based (of course!) on Bram Stoker's Dracula. Sure the vampire genre has been beaten to death, but before you say anything else hear me out as the concept itself is open to reinterpretation and has a huge potential in terms of video game adaptation. For those of you who don't know that part of the novel here's a short synopsis that, obviously, doesn't give it any justice, but should come in handy to present you with a rough idea:

The Russian ship Demeter is washed ashore by a terrible and sudden storm, and it is discovered that the entire crew was missing. The only body found is that of the captain, tied to the wheel and grasping a crucifix. A huge dog is seen running from the ship; the animal escapes into the woods. The ship's cargo, a great number of large wooden boxes, are handed over to a local solicitor. The log reveals an ill-fated journey: the ship started from the Russian port of the Varna, and ten days into the voyage a crew member disappeared without a trace. Another sailor claimed to have seen a tall man who was clearly not a member of the crew. The men searched the ship but could find no one, and a few days later another sailor disappeared. Sailors continued to vanish, one by one, and the first mate began to go mad. When they were within reach of England, an impenetrable fog enveloped the ship, causing the vessel to lose its way. Only four men were left by then, but the two sailors soon vanished and the first mate was driven completely mad. After an encounter with Dracula, he chose to die in the sea. The captain initially believed that the first mate was the murderer, but shortly afterward he saw the vampire and resolved to go down with the ship. He tied himself to the wheel and held on to a crucifix. He died long before the ship reached land. The people of Whitby who find the ship treat his body with reverence; they plan to give him a large funeral. The dog that ran from the ship is nowhere to be found, although a local dog has been found brutally killed by another animal.

The original's setting is deeply atmospheric and much more interesting from a visual standpoint than the haunted school/hospital/mansion scenario that you find in most horror games. The space in case of a ship is much more physically confining and hence disturbing than any of the above mentioned locales by principle of offering a safe haven from the vast sea that is all-surrounding and traditionally hostile. If any of you had the unsettling experience of traveling on a ship(or a plane) during a storm you perhaps still shudder recalling the muted, threatening sound of an angry element outside that threatens to tear the vessel into pieces. The confinement here is not artifically imposed on a player as is the case with other game scenarios where you are limited by way of invisible barriers(anyone still remembers those cheesy voids in The Calling?), doors or windows that can't be navigated. If you add an internal danger of a predator prowling the ship's lower deck things get even more scary.

The story, at least to me, brings about another deeply disturbing image of the Ship of Fools that has a long tradition in popular culture, ie.:

"Renaissance men developed a delightful, yet horrible way of dealing with their mad denizens: they were put on a ship and entrusted to mariners because folly, water, and sea, as everyone then 'knew', had an affinity for each other. Thus, 'Ship of Fools' crisscrossed the sea and canals of Europe with their comic and pathetic cargo of souls. Some of them found pleasure and even a cure in the changing surroundings, in the isolation of being cast off, while others withdrew further, became worse, or died alone and away from their families. The cities and villages which had thus rid themselves of their crazed and crazy, could now take pleasure in watching the exciting sideshow when a ship full of foreign lunatics would dock at their harbors."

The original crew of Demeter was comprised of Russian and Bulgarian sailors who would form an interesting and varied cast of the game if portrayed rightly. This could be done through the lens of an outsider, perhaps a foreign passenger(main character?) who has little or no means of communication with the crew in shared tongue and makes little sense of the confusion and madness once members of the crew start to go missing and could be himself blamed by some for the killing thus adding another kind of threat to the story. The setting could be, however, readily reworked together with the identity of the antagonist who could be anything from a vampire, a werewolf to a serial killer or main character's own split persona. Another good thing about Dracula is that it exists within the public domain and using it does not infringe on copyright laws.

For those of you who managed to read that wall of text, here's an animation which is part Verne, part steam-punk and part dystopian apocalypse whilst also borrowing on themes from the story about Demeter's journey and introducing a very interesting type of predator:

youtube.com/watch?v=vORsKyopHyM

I would also recommend to you a great radio play by BBC called "The Voyage of Demeter" that is deeply atmospheric and foreboding. Oh, apparently Neil Marshall of "Dog Soldier" and "Game of Thrones" fame (directed the battle of Blackwater episode) is preparing to do a film adaptation. Viggo Mortensen has been supposedly offered a role in it.

Anyhow hope I offered some inspiration. Good luck with your project.

The thing is that i'm not familiar with programming and UDK xD.
I just thought it would be fun to create our own horror game for the first time (for me).
Also, if you have skype, that would be perfect!

Swedish navy... Can't participate

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see anyone volunteering to be an animator. Models won't move on their own, and like I said, animating for short films is a whole different thing than animating for games.