Cry of Fear is a personal project for me, where I could make and create whatever I wanted and felt. The horror only appeared because I like horror. I only worked on the mod to make it fun to play. I personally haven’t cared about making Cry of Fear that scary, it just appeared to be scary. IGM: Given your experience in making horror mods, what unique challenges does this genre present and how do you go about conquering them?Īndreas: There’s not really any challenge I care about. Most of us in the team share the same awful experience in life I think. But since I wasn’t alone working on this, his personality also reflects our team members. Not only is Simon modelled and textured using me as reference, his personality also reflects mine. IGM: It’s been suggested by some that Simon’s character is a sort of abstract, hyperbolic autobiography for you, is there any truth to this?Īndreas: There’s certainly a truth to that. Why Cry of Fear is so dark is mainly because of the hard times I had in life during development, which reflected on the mod, since the story was being worked on at the same time during production. The story for the mod grew as we were working. After a while, it just turned out to be Cry of Fear. Eventually James joined me and started helping me with code. I just kept working and kept adding stuff. What happened was that I just started working on something which I didn’t know what would happen with. How did you originally come up with the idea for it?Īndreas: I didn’t really come up with the idea like that.

IGM: You’ve been making horror mods for quite a while now, but Cry of Fear is distinctly darker than any of your other works. It’s creator, Andreas Rönnberg is no stranger to the horror genre or mod development, creating the cult hit “Afraid of Monsters” at just thirteen-years old.įollowing the mods frenzied release, I caught up with the man behind the madness.

For those of you who aren’t, it’s a survival-horror FPS total-conversion mod inspired by the likes of Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil, featuring some of the best graphics ever seen in a Gldsrc game and has been in development for a really, really long time. Those of you who are involved in the modding scene in any way, or have even visited ModDB in the last few years will no doubt be aware of the astonishingly ambitious Cry of Fear mod for Half Life 1.

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