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| The Sea is full of bubbles and fish ...and fish poop. |
Asylum Jam is a 48 hour game jam in October. In 2013 Scott Washington and I entered with Sea Nothing, an undersea dash to follow your diving tether back to your shark-proof cage before your air supply runs out or Jaws gets ya. But what really brings the tension of the pitch-black darkness is the music stinger courtesy of
Cat Arthur.
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| Swimming faster will reduce your air. |
The Asylum jam is for
horror games inspired by Ian Mahar’s article ‘Nobody Wins When Horror Games Stigmatize Mental Illness’. These games illustrate horror without using asylums, psychiatric institutes,
medical professionals, or 'insane' patients. These are all tropes too-commonly used in the horror genre; inaccurate stereotypes that stigmatizes mental health issues.
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| He's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye... |
The recent Asylum Jam in October 2014 had an article in
Rock, Paper, Shotgun which specifically mentioned Sea Nothing out of the other 60 games. Pretty cool.
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