Occult deckbuilder The Killing Stone is introducing a 'dynamic' scare system originally considered for BioShock 2: 'It's very fun as a gamedev to be surprised by something in your own game'

Occult deckbuilder The Killing Stone is introducing a ‘dynamic’ scare system originally considered for BioShock 2: ‘It’s very fun as a gamedev to be surprised by something in your own game’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Puzzle Devs behind GoldenEye, Perfect Dark and TimeSplitters are done with big shooters after getting burned by Embracer, so their next game is a Balatro-like twist on Scrabble—and you can try the demo now Third Person Shooter Embark admits Arc Raiders’ bosses are dying too fast because ‘they’re not intended for the full server to go up against’ and ‘we gave players too effective abilities’ Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders design director says players ‘never worked together’ in testing, but the emergence of care bear lobbies ‘encourages us to lean toward giving opportunities to have friendly interactions’ Gaming Industry ‘It’s pretty sad and pathetic that a game with difficult content can’t get on the larger marketplaces:’ Despite creeping censorship on Steam and Epic, these devs are fighting to make a transgressive stop-motion horror game Third Person Shooter Arc Raiders full interview: ‘Nobody whatsoever thought we’d have this many players’ Horror Can Resident Evil Requiem finally make good on Resident Evil 6’s best and most botched idea? 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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter BioShock 2 was a bold follow-up to Irrational Games’ 2007 FPS, putting you in the lead-weighted shoes of a Big Daddy and flipping its objectivist critique on its head. But 2K Marin’s sequel may have been bolder still if some of its developers had their way on the project. Early plans for the sequel included far more dynamic encounters with its fearsome Big Sister enemies, letting them get the jump on you whenever they fancied.This was brought to light by former 2K Marin dev David Lindsey Pittman in a Bluesky thread (via GamesRadar). “Way way back in the day on BioShock 2, me and Kent Hudson talked about doing a dynamic ‘Big Sister scare’ system, where we’d spawn the ostensible villain at the edge of your vision any time the game’s tempo slowed down,’ Pittman writes.Pittman doesn’t specify whether these dynamic scares would have resulted in an actual fight or chase sequel a-la Alien: Isolation or Resident Evil 2 remake. Either way, it would have been an innovative approach to first-person horror in 2010, the same year that brought us Amnesia: The Dark Descent. In the end, however, the idea was scra