Josh Bycer's Blog - Antagonistic Horror Design. The following blog post, unless otherwise noted, was written by a member of Gamasutra’s community.
The thoughts and opinions expressed are those of the writer and not Gamasutra or its parent company. Horror design has been called out by mainstream designers in the past for not being marketable. Today's post examines a common horror movie narrative and how it can impact horror design. Reprinted from my site: Game-Wisdom A few weeks ago, I had something that I haven't experience in a long time: a nightmare-- Specifically a "wake up with your heart racing" nightmare. Facts & Figures: Enchanted Objects. Enchanted Objects Arthurian Legend The following magical objects found in the Arthurian legend are actually too enormous to list here.
Since Arthur and some of his companions are found in Welsh (Celtic) literature, it is only right to list their possessions here. 10 Legendary Monsters of Europe. There are monsters all around us -or at least the legends of monsters. Last week we saw some of the monsters of Asia. Now here are some of the scariest monsters of Europe. 1. Kelpie The Kelpie lives in the lakes and rivers of Scotland, and is often referred to as a "water horse" because it is shaped like a horse. 2. The Tatzelwurm is a dragon that lives in the Alps. 3.
The ancient legendary creature called the Basilisk was feared in Europe and North Africa. 4. Black Shuck is the name of a ghost dog that roams Norfolk, Suffolk, and other parts of England. 5. The Wolpertinger is a chimera, a combination of several animals into one entity, described variously as a rabbit or squirrel with antlers and wings and other animal parts, said to live in the Bavarian region of Germany. 6. Strigoi are Romanian vampires (and you thought they all were Romanian). 7. The Far Future. Superhuman powers are available to common citizenry The nanotechnology of recent decades has conferred powers to citizens that would be considered superhuman by 21st century standards.
These upgraded "transhumans" could perform feats regarded as Godlike to denizens of earlier times. A suitably upgraded individual - if transported back to the year 2000 - would be impervious to weaponry and nearly impossible to contain. They could morph their body into a seemingly infinite variety of forms depending on the situation encountered. When Will We Be Transhuman? Seven Conditions for Attaining Transhumanism. The future is impossible to predict.
But that’s not going to stop people from trying. We can at least pretend to know where it is we want humanity to go. We hope that laws we craft, the technologies we invent, our social habits and our ways of thinking are small forces that, when combined over time, move our species towards a better existence. The question is, How will we know if we are making progress? As a movement philosophy, transhumanism and its proponents argue for a future of ageless bodies, transcendent experiences, and extraordinary minds. But how will we able to tell when the pieces finally do fall into place?
Medical modifications that permanently alter or replace a function of the human body become prolific.Our social understanding of aging loses the “virtue of necessity” aspect and society begins to treat aging as a disease.Rights discourse would shift from who we include among humans (i.e. should homosexual have marriage rights?) 1. 2. Angel Names: Names of Angels. A list of angel names and meanings, collected from history, lore and various experts of angels.
The following comprehensive list of traditional angel names were collected from different angelic sources for reference. Some of them are Biblical, while others are found within religions, legends and myths. Ancient Superweapons Fucking Rock. Aryangoku92 This one time a Roman army attacked the Greek colony of Syracuse, which at the time housed the famous inventor Archimedes.
Instead of following the great Greek philosopher tradition of sitting there and taking it up the ass from an invading force, Archimedes invented a series of insane defense devices that scared the shit out of the invading Roman force, to the point that the defenders would only have to wave a plank and a rope from the city walls to send the nearest Roman invaders scurrying for safety. It's probable that the majority of the defensive engineering machines in Syracuse were run of the mill things like catapults and trebuchets, but there were definitely some more interesting things in there as well.
Such as the Archimedes' Claw, which may or may have not worked something like this: It was basically a huge pulley, designed to raise a Roman trireme up from the sea and drop it down again, with all of its crew of some 200 men inside. Hysterical Woman Greek fire. Can you name the answers to these 50 Riddles? Maps. Home page Down to: 6th to 15th Centuries | 16th and 19th Centuries | 1901 to World War Two | 1946 to 21st Century The Ancient World ... index of places Aegean Region, to 300 BCE Aegean Region, 185 BCE Africa, 2500 to 1500 BCE Africa to 500 CE African Language Families Alexander in the East (334 to 323 BCE) Ashoka, Empire of (269 to 232 BCE) Athenian Empire (431 BCE) China, Korea and Japan (1st to 5th century CE) China's Warring States (245 to 235 BCE) Cyrus II, Empire of (559 to 530 BCE) Delian League, 431 BCE Egyptian and Hittite Empires, 1279 BCE.
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