Night Trap Kickstarter Hopes to Bring the Game to HD
It's Night Trap as you've never seen it: not grainy!
Night Trap, the infamous 1992 full motion video game, will be rebooted if its creators are successful in their Kickstarter campaign.
Night Trap: ReVamped is somewhat of a test product for Night Trap, LLC. The company's four chief engineers include the co-creators of the original Night Trap, James Riley and Rob Fulop, and the team hopes to release even more of the old Digital Pictures games. They chose to test the waters with Night Trap "partly because it was our biggest selling product, and partly because it has a place in history."
The game's HD elements have already been transferred. The FMV scenes were filmed on 35mm film, which means that the transition to high definition doesn't involve upscaling resolutions and instead involves simply transferring the originals to a modern hi-def format. Night Trap LLC hopes to have the game completed six months after the end of a successful funding campaign.
Night Trap's place in history was secured when Congressional hearing on video game violence focused on the game, along with a few other titles from the era like Doom and Mortal Kombat. The game was cited as being "ultra-violent" and called "shameful" during the hearings, chaired by Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin.
It seems like the publicity of the hearings, coupled with the perceived salaciousness of the "nightgown scene," likely helped, and not hindered, sales of the game. It was financially successful and went on to become a best-seller... at least in the UK. Looking back, the game seems primitive and the "nightgown scene" that garnered media attention was simply the game's antagonists, the Augers, draining the blood from a woman in a nightgown. It almost seems downright quaint.
If successful, the game will be released for "PC, Mac, Xbox, and PlayStation." The team has marked off four months of its development strictly for ensuring the video quality is as pristine as they originally envisioned it would be.
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