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Dead Space

Health on the spine and ammo on the gun: immersion enforced as an interface constraint.

Released 2008 Developer Visceral Games Publisher Electronic Arts Platform Xbox 360 Genre Survival horror Era Digital storefronts & indie

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Interface & Meta · 2008
Diegetic HUD-less Interface
Diegetic interfaces delete the overlay and place health, ammunition and inventory on objects inside the fiction, so in…
Origin: Dead Space

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Dead Space inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Found Audio Log 1994Environmental Storytelling 1994Over-the-Shoulder Aim 2003Contextual Execution 2006

Descends from

Resident Evil 4 2005

The Dead Space series in this dataset

2008
Dead Space this page
2011

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