Upon releasing my very first game here on itch "Beneath", I came up with a new idea for my next game. Lately I have been fascinated with liminal spaces and their comfort and yet fear about them. I am thinking in making a liminal spaces horror game, psychological liminal horror to be exact.
I want to explore the effects on the mind when a person is stuck in liminal spaces, forever alone with nobody but themselves. Now this is a totally random deviation from what I'm taking about (I'm just throwing ideas) but recently I watched a video from Forge Labs playing a Minecraft mod pack called "From the Fog". The link to Forge Lab's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxw6ZSra0GQ
Basically it adds Herobrine to the world, but the psx visuals really gave it that 'scary' aspect to it and made you think that someone was watching you from a distance but you couldn't really tell. I really liked the fact that the game played with your mind in terms of hearing things and seeing things, it gave it that psychological touch to it and really loved it.
I was thinking in doing something similar but with liminal spaces, and instead of having something watch you, nothing is truly their. It is just your mind playing with you because of the spaces themselves. I'm just throwing ideas here so that I can come up with a solid direction for my next game.
What do you think? Feel free to brainstorm with me a throw some of your ideas here!