Fear in GamesSo for a while now I have had this idea for a game mechanic, fear in the character your playing. Say for example there is a zombie survival horror game and obviously there would be item management and maybe it is like a lot of other horror games where the game doesn't pause when you look in your inventory so it would add more tense feel to the game, but after a while the scariness of something walking up while your in an inventory check gets a little predictable. So what I had always thought is when you start the zombie game your character would have very little gun skills but over time they got better and could have improved reload time or something, anyway because your fighting the un...

Fear in GamesSo for a while now I have had this idea for a game mechanic, fear in the character your playing. Say for example there is a zombie survival horror game and obviously there would be item management and maybe it is like a lot of other horror games where the game doesn't pause when you look in your inventory so it would add more tense feel to the game, but after a while the scariness of something walking up while your in an inventory check gets a little predictable. So what I had always thought is when you start the zombie game your character would have very little gun skills but over time they got better and could have improved reload time or something, anyway because your fighting the undead your character would have FEAR which is what I call this mechanic where if zombies get closer and closer your gun starts shaking so it is difficult to aim, when you reload you can drop the clip and have to pick it up or just leave the ammo behind, and finally if you are sprinting there is a possibility you can trip. These side effects would be worse depending on the size of the horde, if they came out of nowhere, if the zombies are stronger that normal, and if they block the only exit. I don't know just a thought I had that in my opinion would be really cool to see implemented in new horror games.