Alone in the Dark (video game)
| Alone in the Dark | |
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| Genres | Survival horror |
| Developers |
Infogrames Krisalis Software Darkworks Spiral House Pocket Studios Eden Games Hydravision Entertainment Pure FPS |
| Publishers | Infogrames Interplay Entertainment Atari, Inc. |
| First release |
Alone in the Dark 1992 |
| Latest release |
Alone in the Dark: Illumination June 11, 2015 |
| Edward Carnby | |
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| Alone in the Dark (series) character | |
| First game | Alone in the Dark (1992) |
| Voiced by |
David Gasman (Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare) James McCaffrey (Alone in the Dark 2008) |
| Portrayed by |
Christian Slater (Alone in the Dark film) Rick Yune (Alone in the Dark II film) |
Alone in the Dark is a survival horror video game series, originally developed by Infogrames. In most of the games, the player controls private investigator Edward Carnby, who goes to investigate a haunted mansion or town that is full of undead creatures.
The original story is based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, although later games in the series drew inspiration from other sources including voodoo, the Wild West, and the works of H. R. Giger. Six installments of the series have been created, with various themes and locations. Two comic books and two films were created based upon the games.
The first game in the series was developed by Infogrames and released for the PC in 1992. It was one of the first two games to use polygonal characters over pre-rendered backgrounds. Guinness World Records awarded it the record of "First Ever 3D Survival Horror Game" in the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008 edition. Krisalis Software made a port for the 3DO in 1994 that was released by Interplay Entertainment. A Mac version was released in 1994. In 2014, Atari published a port to iOS developed by Kung Fu Factory.
A small game made during Alone in the Dark 2 production, Jack in the Dark was used as a promotional game distributed at Christmas 1993. just before Alone in the Dark 2 release. The game was on a single floppy in a golden wrapping featuring a Jack-in-the-box illustration on the top. It is a short adventure featuring the young child Grace Saunders. During Halloween, she enters a small toy store after dark and gets locked inside. There, the toys are alive, and Grace must save Santa Claus from an evil Jack-in-the-box. Jack in the Dark is an adventure game that focuses purely on puzzles and has no combat. Later CD versions of both Alone in the Dark and Alone in the Dark 2 came packaged with this game.
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