3 Steps Away - A Horror Game by Overcast (Spinnos manolis,Giamaios Marinos)

[Grim]

Hi Grim reaper,

you have to be sure that this game has nothing to do with sillent hill.I have only wright a very brief story and maybe you are right many people gonna compare it with other games.

''3 steps away'' its something different from the others.i wrote a whole mythology for the game called ''souls of the planet'' and also has to do with good and bad spirits and no zompies .

I will update soon the page with the more things about the story.

Thanks a lot

Fair enough:) The title itself is very good- "3 Steps Away" sounds very interesting and promising. Just make sure you don't overdo on the whole "mythology factor", the way Graham Masterton often does. Don't get into "800 years ago this was an ancient burial ground, so of course it's haunted" thing, that would be me advice to you. Sometimes saying less, is more, especially in the horror genre. You don't always have to explain everything. Also, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get inspiration from Silent Hill, just have to be careful not to rip off the letter from behind the grave thing, because in my opinion no one can beat that particular letter I mentioned in my earlier post...
Good luck!

[manos461]

Thanks a lot about your advice Grim
i preciate!

[manos461]

we have a new member in the team.Adrei is the main composer.

[silverwolfpet]

we have a new member in the team.Adrei is the main composer.

Haha! Thank you, ummm, but my name is Andrei not Adrei
No worries. I just hope you guys will like how the music blends into the game.

[Wesray]

I'm always up for horror games, and this one looks very good. The story sounds interesting so far- reading the summary I want to know more. Of course it's very difficult not to fall back on cliches in these kinds of games, but as long as you keep the story somewhat logical and still suspenseful I'm sure I will like it.

Hope you'll finish it, and soon!

[manos461]

i tried to make a nice scenario but i think the best part of the game it's the end...if you combine different parts of the game you will see that it's very smart the end.
friends of mine they like it a lot.

i will put some thinks about the scenario tonight but not much..


thanks a lot everyone!

[Stupot]

This looks pretty interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

[manos461]

News about the game..

we start to make a small adventure game maybe a small trilogy...but now we trying to make something better..we try to make a normal horror adv game.that means we have to make a lot of changes.we keep up the good work.we promise you that you will see a nice atmoshere and a unique End.

We are just people that love adventure games!

Thanks a lot and have a nice summer!

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[manos461]

 News:
A lot of changes for "3 steps away" the last days. We deside to change the game from 3rd person to first person adventure. We want to make it  as realistic as we can. Make it 1st person mean that we have to change all the cameras from the begining and a lot of details to scenario but keeping the main scenario. We already start the make over of the game making it more detailed and with better atmosphere. We try to make something realy good and this is the reason for the changes we made.    ...more news soon...
                                                           Thanks all of you
                                                               Overcast
                                                 

[david]

great news
carry on 

[Dualnames]

Go Greek Team go!!

[PolloDiablo]

Oh wow... I'm speechless. 

[manos461]

News and new Pics

[Anian]

Somethings up with Nathan's hair, but on the other hand the new backgrounds look awesome.

[manos461]

thanks a lot anian!

[Dualnames]

Great update on this. I see great atmosphere coming up! Is the game freeware? Also, are there gonna be any action sequences?

[vertigoaddict]

--Just make sure you don't overdo on the whole "mythology factor", the way Graham Masterton often does. Don't get into "800 years ago this was an ancient burial ground, so of course it's haunted" thing, that would be me advice to you. Sometimes saying less, is more, especially in the horror genre. You don't always have to explain everything. Also, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get inspiration from Silent Hill, just have to be careful not to rip off the letter from behind the grave thing, because in my opinion no one can beat that particular letter I mentioned in my earlier post...
Good luck!

It's funny that you mentioned old burial grounds and Silent Hill, because in an official Silent Hill magazine it was mentioned in an interview with the creators that Silent Hill was built on an "ancient red Indian burial ground" 

But yeah that bit was never actually mentioned in any of the games.

This game looks great, keep up the good work!

[Frodo]

Ooh, this looks so spooky.   

I love that church, and the well & rocks - so much texture! 

I'm really looking forward to this.   

[Chicky]

He has my name and hair!

New shots look awesome!

[manos461]

Dear Dualnames,

we are trying to make a full adventure game so maybe it's not gonna be free, but don't worry about the cost
it's not gonna be expensive.We will fix a price that everyone can pay. The only reason is that we have to pay some programs that we use and some gameboxes we want to make for the this and maybe some new pc's to help us to make our work faster.But nothing is for sure we have to talk again and again all the members about that.

Now about the action sequence. The in game thing is clear adventure but there are action cut scenes that complete every big pazl..for example ....if you try to escape from something you have to solve some pazls or to find a some items,when everything it's done  there is a nice cut scene  that complete tha part or the chapter.
Personally i think that way it's very cool.   i hope to like it..i am waiting for your opinion...