Fiend

Fiend was made by Thomas Grip in 2001. Thomas Grip is the Creative Director for Frictional Games, the creators of the Penumbra and Amnesia series, as well as SOMA. Fiend was Thomas' first horror game, begun as a hobby project back when he was still a teenager in the late 1990s. Fiend is a a 2D survival horror game greatly influenced on the work of HP Lovecraft. You play as Nick Cane who is sent to the small town of Lauder to see if a mine contains any valuable minerals. Arriving at Lauder you suspect that all is not right with the town and slowly the visit turns into a nightmare. The game was released in 2001 and took around 2 years of work to finish. The engine is made using the allegro library and has features such as realtime lighting and particles effects.

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