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[Putnam]

Man, the guys on the SCP wiki are INCREDIBLY harsh critics.


If you guys ever apply to join, look over your potential entries or threads and really, REALLY, REALLY make sure they are truly awesome, or else they will rip it to shreds.

True dat.  I have a couple of SCPs written up and have been trying to work up the courage to face their inevitable onslaught for quite some time.

Post them here, then ask for criticism on the chat. You'll get plenty constructive criticism there.

[ShoesandHats]

Ok, I played about one minute of this and got too scared to carry on, even though I only encountered SCP-173 in the intro sequence, and got into the 3rd room.

Damn, horror games, you scary!

[JoshuaFH]

Ok, I played about one minute of this and got too scared to carry on, even though I only encountered SCP-173 in the intro sequence, and got into the 3rd room.

Damn, horror games, you scary!

HORROR GAMES: "You're welcome."

[jc6036]

I think I've become desensitized to horror, really. Real life viewers of my let's plays think that it's hilarious how my face hardly changes when I should be shitting my pants. I respond by telling them that I'm a man of steel when I play horror, and that it's just a fact of life.

You'll get used to it eventually.

[ShoesandHats]

I decided to man up a bit and go further. I've pretty much never played an actual horror game, so I'm the opposite of jaded.

And for whatever reason that lamp over there freaks me out.

[JoshuaFH]

Like, a lamp in your house? Cause I don't remember any lamps in the game offhand.

[ShoesandHats]

No, I mean the desk lamps in the game that you find in the cubicle areas.

Also, I'm now editing the game's textures to be less terrifying. 173 now has a pink happy face!

[SeriousConcentrate]

Yeah. Because a giant pink happy face is less terrifying. O.o Seriously, I think that would be a bit creepier... Blink, and all of a sudden there's a giant stone statue in front of you, hands stopped just before your neck, and worst of all someone painted a big, pink, happy face on it... because it's just so delighted to have someone to wrap its hands around and squeeze to death...

[ShoesandHats]

Better than what it had before. I haven't the bravery to even bring up the old man's texture file.

Edit: Are there any ways to up the brightness?

[Lectorog]

Turn up the brightness on your monitor. There's a brightness setting in the game, but I don't know how much it affects currently.

[Orb]

Ok, I played about one minute of this and got too scared to carry on, even though I only encountered SCP-173 in the intro sequence, and got into the 3rd room.

Damn, horror games, you scary!

Its gets significantly less scary once you know the innerworkings of the game, since its less...unknown. If you are curious in some fear reducing information:

Spoiler: Information (click to show/hide)

SCPs are triggered by 'events', so to speak. They don't roam around. You'll actually see the same SCP more than once, even though it would be impossible for them to be at all those locations. This also means you never have to look behind you, for a SCP would never sneak up on you(Nor could you do much about it....)

Some rooms never contain SCPs. The intersection rooms are an example.

Some rooms always contain the same SCP. The timed locked door room almost always has SCP 173. The maintenance tunnels have The Old Man.

SCPs, when they do spawn, generally spawn in the same location in a 'type' of room. The Old Man is a bit more random, but SCP 173 is generally predictable in his location.

One thing to remember is that you can escape from almost any dangerous encounter. You just have to be smart. The Old Man can be ran around in wide corridors. Being old, he doesn't have reflexes, or some other RP.

I could list all the rooms and the potentials for the SCPs, and how to get through them, but I feel that's a bit overkill, and would ruin the game for you. Anyway, have fun avoiding inevitable death! 

[JoshuaFH]

Could you atleast take a screenie of your happy face 173?

[ShoesandHats]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES RAINBOWS LOLLIPOPS AND PUPPIES ARE ALL THAT EXIST SCP? WHAT'S AN SCP? I SEE NO SCPS.

[SeriousConcentrate]

OK, I'll admit, that screenshot did make me giggle quite a bit. XD I still bet it's scarier in-game though, just for looking so ridiculous.

[JoshuaFH]

That is definitely scarier than the default, just because it now looks just so much less natural and into the uncanny valley.