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[WIP] The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 07-28-2011

WE'RE LOOKING FOR SCRIPTERS!

name: "The Elder Sign: Arkham Asylum"
team: ZyLogicX (director,gameplay,script,builder), Gunzo (tester)
release date: tba
engine: HPL2 mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent
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I'm currently working on my custom story called The Elder Sign: Arkham Asylum, which will be the first epsiode of presumably a trilogy.

"The Elder Sign" will be both indirectly and directly tell the stories created by H.P. Lovecraft, including:
"The Shadow over Innsmouth"(currently using for Episode 1)
Locations: Arkham Asylum

The Elder Sign will take you onto a journey around 1922 as Jack Walters, a private investigator, who has been able to crack cases without direct clues or evidence.

6 years ago, though, Jack investigated a strange house in Boston, being overrun by some strange cult. As the police got his back, Jack slipped in the house. He noticed weird alien creature-drawing , something like a cosmic-horror. As Jack continued his investigation, he saw a room filled with dead people, by the looks of it it was suicide or rather, mass-suicide, but these people has strange tattoos, incarved with a knife of some sort.

He than found later that this cult has been expecting him ever since,

When he went into an secret-passage in the library-room, the cave collapsed and Jack Walters was trapped. He proceeded further to find that these pscyho's have been killing their members and innocent people for "The Shadow out of Time"....

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - xtron - 07-28-2011

ooo I can't wait to play this story! Big Grin

H.P Lovercraft AND Arkham Asylum!.

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 07-28-2011

(07-28-2011, 12:26 AM)xtron Wrote: ooo I can't wait to play this story!
H.P Lovercraft AND Arkham Asylum!.

To be precise, The Arkham Asylum is named after the fictional city of Arkham, Massachusetts, found in many of H.P. Lovecraft's short horror and science fiction stories, such as "The Colour Out of Space".

It has the same purpose though, in simple words a psychiatric hosptial.

The game Batman: Arkham Asylum is a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's work,
which is why you see it alot in the D.C. Comic Universe.

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - Rapture - 07-28-2011

Is the symbol yours? It looks nice!

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 07-28-2011

(07-28-2011, 01:05 AM)Rapture Wrote: Is the symbol yours? It looks nice!

Thanks... I edited the colours and the eye in the middle of it.

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - Tanshaydar - 07-28-2011

So, a solid story then. I always loved Lovecraft stories Smile

Looking forward to play it!

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - Seuchensoldat - 07-28-2011

Dark Corners of the Earth anyone? Big Grin

This one sounds interesting. Is it more a remake or will you do your own vision of the game?

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - ZyLogicX - 07-28-2011

(07-28-2011, 08:19 AM)Seuchensoldat Wrote: Dark Corners of the Earth anyone? This one sounds interesting. Is it more a remake or will you do your own vision of the game?

I am aware of the game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, although the story will stay the same of course (since its based on the stories) Gameplay wise it will be much different from Coc: DCotE.

But people that have experienced Dark Corners of The Earth will definetly see some similairities and references

RE: The Elder Sign (trilogy) - Seuchensoldat - 07-28-2011

(07-28-2011, 08:37 AM)ZyLogicX Wrote:
(07-28-2011, 08:19 AM)Seuchensoldat Wrote: Dark Corners of the Earth anyone? This one sounds interesting. Is it more a remake or will you do your own vision of the game?

I am aware of the game Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, although the story will stay the same of course (since its based on the stories) Gameplay wise it will be much different from Coc: DCotE.

But people that have experienced Dark Corners of The Earth will definetly see some similairities and references

Looking forward to it. The game was nice but as soon as you get weapons the game looses its charme I think.

RE: [WIP] The Elder Sign (trilogy) - Gunzo - 07-28-2011

As your personal tester i think it looks great so far.