Tag Archives: Dan Pinchbeck

Thechineseroom’s long-awaited Amnesia sequel has been tentatively scheduled for a second quarter launch.

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Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs will be “fairly traditional in some ways,” yet “quietly radical in others,” according to thechineseroom’s Dan Pinchbeck.

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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs will retain some elements of developer Dan Pinchbeck’s last adventure, Dear Esther, but won’t be the same kind of game.

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Speaking in an interview with GameZone, Dan Pinchbeck, creative director of developer thechineseroom, said that the horror sequel Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs has slipped from its intended Halloween 2012 release date into 2013,

“The quality of the game is the absolute first, last, and always with this development, and we felt it could do with a few more months’ work to make sure that’s really going to happen,” said Pinchbeck.

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Dan Pinchbeck, creative director at thechineseroom, has said if Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs can’t “frighten people as much as the original,” then the team has “failed.”

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Dan Pinchbeck, creative director at thechineseroom said during his lecture at GDC that when developing Dear Esther, the team found that when you over stimulate the player with a buoyant atmosphere, it can cause over stimulation and “kill” the atmosphere.

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Dan Pinchbeck of Dear Esther developer thechineseroom has been announced as the main speaker for the next GameCity Nights event in Nottingham on March 29. Pinchbeck will talk about past work including Esther, as well as upcoming projects from the studio, including Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs. Also attending will be State of Play’s Luke Whittaker to talk about the developer’s Sheamus McNally award nomination for Lume. You can get tickets here for £6.

Indie darling Dear Esther managed 50,000 sales in launch week, developer thechineseroom has revealed.

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Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs has been announced as a collaboration between thechineseroom and Frictional Games.

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Dear Esther, the ghostly indie game with a story based on exploration in a first-person perspective, will be released on February 14.

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A second round of lectures for GDC 2012′s Main Conference have been announced, and the set includes a look at the crowd system in Hitman: Absolution, a talk from WB Games Seattle, and a session from Dear Esther’s creator on indie success.

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