Machine Horror/Gothic Fictions Revisited

Machine Horror/Gothic Fictions Revisited, Machine horror is under the fictional genre where robots and technology attack on humans like robots with artificial intelligent that work negatively on the user. Gothic fictions are under the genre where both include romance and horror, gothic art is a style that expresses intense emotions. Some of that includes ghost, supernatural and haunted house, most of the house which are design in a gothic architecture. Distinct part of a gothic houses are the sharp fences around the house and many others. Gothic is know the dark and terrifying medieval era, where creates a frightening and fearful atmosphere for the audience. Both Machine horror and Gothic Fictions are under the horror genre. Since our game is under the horror genre, the above topics which are machine horror and gothic fictions gives us ideas to increase the fearful intensity for our game. Similarly to gothic horror, our game uses the “dark” to scare the players; the players are only given a little amount of flares to explore the hospital and to escape the zombies infested area. Machine horror is similar to the explosion where the machine went faulty and cause a leak of bio-hazard gas which was the main cause of the out broke of zombies. Even though our game is under the horror genre, it shows very little machine horror in our game. Many others games have uses the ‘machine horror’ to thrill the audience, mostly are robots and technology got glitches that work wrongly, which start injuring or killing of humans. Since machines have no emotions and only have artificial intelligence, this would scare the audience due to the wrongly programme machines attacking the innocent victim without any hesitation because it is covered in a cold metallic shell. In conclusion, machine horror and gothic fictions are great resource and topics in making a horror game.