Headware Games

#Interviews#Video Games#Game Development#IndieDev#Unity Headware Games discusses Hollowbody's retro-inspired art pipeline, PS2-era visual constraints, Unity-based development, atmospheric lighting workflows, and the challenges of building a modern survival horror game as a solo developer. Over the past several years, a new wave of indie horror games has emerged with a surprisingly specific source of inspiration: the survival horror classics of the PlayStation 2 era like Silent Hill 2.

Chasing Static is a low-poly psychological horror title isn’t aiming for out and out scares as much as creating a foreboding atmosphere to suck us into the story. In this, it succeeds pretty well really, with the roughly 3 hour runtime maintaining a sense of dread throughout. We could have used a little more action, but as it is this is definitely something to check out.

Developer Headware Games and publisher Ratalaika Games have announced that their “PS1-style” horror game Chasing Static will release in Q3 2021 for the PlayStation 5 and 4 among other platforms. A demo is currently available on Steam. “The PlayStation era had so many great horror games that made an impact on me and gave me nightmares for years,” said Headware Games’ Nathan Hamley.