We talked with Vincent Adinolfi, the dev behind the survival horror game Heartworm, about his influences, indie horror, and more.
was a peek into an alternate universe where big-budget games are allowed to be truly weird, a feat that helped it becomewere mostly positively received, and while they were both remakes instead of original projects, that’s probably more a criticism of the current state of the industry than the genre itself. But fermenting underneath these polished, expensive endeavors is a Petri dish of wonderfully rancid creations, many of which are using a particular moment in the past to build something new.
Paste: Were you planning on making a full game when you started out, or was it more of an experiment?Yeah, I mean, I definitely didn’t think I’d be at this point with a publisher trying to ship a game. But I did want to release some kind of full, fleshed-out project. I had never used Unity before this. Everybody always says, “Don’t make your dream game first.” I’ve heard that for like 20 years on the internet, but I didn’t want to make a game that I didn’t care about.
But I want to frame things in a way that is aesthetically pleasing to me. And I think there’s a lot of merit to the fixed camera angle style that doesn’t get as much credit. I think it’s kind of misunderstood, although I also can understand people’s frustration with them sometimes.Over the last few years, there’s been a resurgence in PS1-styled horror games. There are the Haunted PS1 Demo Discs, just to name a few.
Paste: From the outside, it seems like there’s a relatively communal vibe around the indie horror scene. For instance, you see a lot of crossover with theYeah, it definitely seems that way. I don’t consider my social skills at the top of the list when it comes to what I’m good at. But I didn’t know any of those people who organize that stuff, and then I popped in, and I was like, “Hey, I’m doing this thing if you’re interested in including it in your demo disc,” and they had no problem with it.
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