The first part of my research is to have a look at the general horror games that are already out there. Not only will these help to give me inspiration it allows me to see what has already been done, what was successful about them and what was not successful about them.

I have a good general knowledge of survival horror games, but researching into these again and looking deeper into what was frightening with them and what wasn't, by learning what was scary and unique or well just well done, will help me learn more about the subject and pay off in my design.

Therefore taking note of all of these will help greatly when coming to my design to ensure I am actually using effective researched techniques. This will also ensure I do not something that has been done, or I can see what things have been done poorly in the past and learn from them.

After some more people surveyed and plenty of thought from my self I realized that this survey was not being definitive enough to give me a final choice. Although it has narrowed it down somewhat from the bigger list that I had at the start.

This has brought me down to this:

Deserted Street
Coach/Tram Station
Train Station
Dockyard
Container Ship


I am leaving the final choice down to more advanced research. This will also be influenced by factors such as: feasibility, whats already been done and cliche idea's. Hospital was another popular vote on the survey, but its been done an awful lot, and it is asking for predictable cliche idea's being done for it. Therefore I dropped hospital from the list of possibilities.

So, now it is important for me to do more research into horror in general and fears, as that will help me to choose an environment, and then what will be in there to make it scary. I believe sound will be an important aspect of it.

I have been asking around to get as many views as possible on for this project before I decide which place I'm going to  "Horror up" so to speak. I must also note that I decided to make Bus/tram station together as one area, as alot of people opinions came through that they would be scarier as one big area.

After three initially took off, it has changed and its become and interesting way to see what people would ifnd scary. All the options within this survey are taken from idea's I believed with feesable, but I left the option open for extra entry's if people had something else specifically on their mind. I also decided t let people choose a first and second choice, I did this fora  few reasons, first and foremost was because I have noticed from previous experience that a lot of people get stuck between two choices, but also because I thought it was another way to see how popular they really are. If two choices get 10 votes each, but one has 7 second choice votes while the other has only 2, it would again become another way to seperate the most popular.





However it has become apparent that it hasn't worked out the same way I thought it might, and ther are some choices that are very popular as a second choice but are lacking behind in a first choice.

So far the front runners are:



Desserted Street
Hospital
Bus/Tram Station.

The least popular are: Office Block & Antarctic Outpost.

However, Dockyard and the Containership were vastly more popular as a second choice than anything else, the Container Ship actually got more second votes than anything did first votes. If this survey is not definitive enough, I may have to do some research into the most popular ones and see which one I feel would be the best to do, for example I already am aware that Hospital has been done plenty of times before and I would rather try to find something more original and less used, so to therefore be more interesting.