I suppose you don't HAVE to have all the rooms filled out though? Like in the first house where you want to give the visitor the idea that everything is perfectly normal, it wouldn't have a basement, and that could in of itself be a bit eyebrow raising. Then I suppose you could put some questionable items in side rooms, but maybe make them slightly hidden when you first enter the room, and you won't be able to see them unless you turn the camera.
Creating a Horror Village
- Thread starter Hayley
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The idea just came to me to add cameras and such in the first "overly normal" house to give off the impression that you are being watched. Also, make a posh bathroom with a whirlpool bath and candles. That would totally add to the resort theme in the first house!
Nineflower
Senior Member
I think it would be worthwhile to incorporate American settings and horror-inspirations, like have "hollywood" set with the cameras, staging and lights, or the idea of an offset hotel, or old murder mysteries. It'd be interesting to incorporate the villagers and their portraits somehow... I'm a fan of visual clues of when something is obviously "missing" and the search of trying to figure out where and why.
violetneko
Atmospheric Legend
Villager portraits in a murder mystery would be cool; especially if it's a villager that doesn't live in that town.
Make a blood pattern in which it looks like someone was dragging a bloody person/animal to one of your houses. Then make the inside creepy, fill it with kitchen items and axes. Make some patterns with some of villager faces with X's slashed through them and have one pattern of a current villager that doesn't have an X slashed through.
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Wow you guys have a lot of ideas haha
jakeypride
Senior Member
If you go with my links, you could make the human villagers wear blank masks, and maybe a house in the center of the town the house of a happy couple <3 like A girl character or man, then have paintings of the two together, since two players cant live in one house. and have the other players houses placed around town not near eachother, and they could all be wearing blank masks and in each of there house could be a scene of what they put the happy couple through, and in the last house it could be covered in blood and show the couple is dead....Wow! Thank you all so much! Never did I expect to receive 6 pages worth of help!
Right I'll try to answer this in order...
Lurrdoc - The theremin seems like a popular item, and the idea of blocking it in so the player can't turn it off sounds brilliant! The uncomfortable environment you speak of will only be heightened by the lack of control animal crossing otherwise offers.
Mixxi - Hospital furniture will appear in the third house as part of the story, and mannequins will also play a part!
Touko - Multiple theories is something to consider, although I don't want it to be too vague so the player isn't sure of what the story actually is.
JezDayy - The one bridge is certainly interesting, although my town layout would mean the player has to go back on themselves. I think it would flow better should there be another bridge.
Corduroy - Blimey! Thank you so much! The tourist idea is brilliant - I'm definitely going to do that! Perhaps a PWP of those 'face in the hole' boards with a palm tree design at the start could add to this? The first house will be 'overly' normal, so a lounge, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom - but I've then got 2 rooms spare which I could potentially use. I want to use all of the town, but I've just got to think how to do that!
jakeypride - Thank you for the links! The doll remark made me laugh. Perhaps the dolls can fortify the theremin mentioned previously? Haha, all joking aside, dolls won't be making a frequent appearance (although whenever I see them I do get flashbacks of other horror villages).
ForestRabbit - That's a very interesting idea. I love art and making patterns, so perhaps some rooms in the later houses could use my own designs to evoke certain feelings in the player.
beebs - I also admire the small details, and think the main challenge will be the landscaping and PWP's that need to be meticulously placed.
Thank you once again to all those who have contributed so far!
Blank masks are so creepy! O:
jakeypride
Senior Member
OMG watch the links then... you'll crap bricks.
Thanks once again for all of the replies!
Toraneko - That's a good point. Perhaps I'll just maximise the space in a select number of rooms, then I can choose to expand should I have further ideas.
Sleepy - I had this exact idea! I was thinking of putting them at the front (or is it back?) of the room so the player has to turn the camera to see them. I'm going to have a bathroom area, so that would certainly be an idea!
Nineflower - Hmm... I shall try to think of a way to incorporate villagers portraits! I have Katies Portrait, so that's a start at least.
violetneko - To carry on from my last point, I'm not sure whether a murder mystery would confuse the plot a bit? It might overcomplicate things! Good idea however.
Mya - Me too! It will be a lot of work, but hopefully it will be very rewarding.
Kaiaa - I may be able to incorporate this with the 'hospital' theme. I remember in CF I had a pattern which was an outlined person in chalk (like them murder mystery programmes) That would be good to recreate, but first to find a grass pattern!
jakeypride - Very creative idea, thank you! Although it might be a bit too similar to Aika, and maybe not 'fit' with the theme of paradise?
Toraneko - That's a good point. Perhaps I'll just maximise the space in a select number of rooms, then I can choose to expand should I have further ideas.
Sleepy - I had this exact idea! I was thinking of putting them at the front (or is it back?) of the room so the player has to turn the camera to see them. I'm going to have a bathroom area, so that would certainly be an idea!
Nineflower - Hmm... I shall try to think of a way to incorporate villagers portraits! I have Katies Portrait, so that's a start at least.
violetneko - To carry on from my last point, I'm not sure whether a murder mystery would confuse the plot a bit? It might overcomplicate things! Good idea however.
Mya - Me too! It will be a lot of work, but hopefully it will be very rewarding.
Kaiaa - I may be able to incorporate this with the 'hospital' theme. I remember in CF I had a pattern which was an outlined person in chalk (like them murder mystery programmes) That would be good to recreate, but first to find a grass pattern!
jakeypride - Very creative idea, thank you! Although it might be a bit too similar to Aika, and maybe not 'fit' with the theme of paradise?
Sakura0901
Senior Member
If you're going to add a little bit of Stephen King's The Shining in your town, another good idea would be taking little bits from Misery :3
Its a shame you cant hack the game and have multiple Coco's in your town :')
Its a shame you cant hack the game and have multiple Coco's in your town :')
Imagine a town with 10 of Coco? That is scary enough on its own.
And Hayley, I agree with what you said in your last post- don't overconfuse the plot. It really will take away from the effect. I think the paradise-gone-wrong theme is perfect. P.S. - I bought a second copy of NL last night for the purpose of making a penguin Christmas town ^_^
Good luck with your town.
For my second town I was leaning towards making Ooo with Fionna from Adventure Time, but now I'm not sure if I want to stick with that.
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I was thinking about having Fionna, Marshal, Prince Bubblegum and Flame Prince be the villagers.
If I were to do this, I would also want to theme the villagers to adventure Time.
Purrl as Cake, Roscoe as Lord Monochromicorn, Stitches as Hambo, Tree Trunks as Eloise, etc.
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Also, fun fact: The villagers name in the Animal Crossing movie is called Ai, which is not far from Aika. Aika also means a lament or sad song. I wonder how much and what is related?
For my second town I was leaning towards making Ooo with Fionna from Adventure Time, but now I'm not sure if I want to stick with that.
- - - Post Merge - - -
I was thinking about having Fionna, Marshal, Prince Bubblegum and Flame Prince be the villagers.
If I were to do this, I would also want to theme the villagers to adventure Time.
Purrl as Cake, Roscoe as Lord Monochromicorn, Stitches as Hambo, Tree Trunks as Eloise, etc.
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Also, fun fact: The villagers name in the Animal Crossing movie is called Ai, which is not far from Aika. Aika also means a lament or sad song. I wonder how much and what is related?
Thats a good idea! I visited this one town where the basements and backrooms had blood on the walls and axes 
Also a good idea that i havent seen yet is digging up fossils and having blathers assess a fossil (dont donate it) then leave them outside everywhere so it appears as a pile of bones (murder! yay!!)
Also a good idea that i havent seen yet is digging up fossils and having blathers assess a fossil (dont donate it) then leave them outside everywhere so it appears as a pile of bones (murder! yay!!)
jakepeter11
~That cool guy~
I'll be more than happy to help you out with collecting items. I have sooo many gyroids myself, I have my house surrounded by the outside with them as a fence 
Deirdre - That sounds really good! I'll definitely use that!
jakepeter11 - Wow! Thank you so much! I too have a bit of a gyroid obsession! I have a spreadsheet here which I will be updating with items if you want to have a look (I don't expect you to do this for free haha).
jakepeter11 - Wow! Thank you so much! I too have a bit of a gyroid obsession! I have a spreadsheet here which I will be updating with items if you want to have a look (I don't expect you to do this for free haha).
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jakepeter11
~That cool guy~
Not a valid URL, but if it's the same one as posted before, I got it. And no problem, I would love to help out someone with a theme, I
am pretty much just collecting to collect currently, except a few sets I am working on.
am pretty much just collecting to collect currently, except a few sets I am working on.
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