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Alan Wen

Why this indie horror dev turned to Unreal Engine 5 to build believable fear

Silent Road video game screens showing haunted forests.

Endflame is a two-person indie studio based in Barcelona, but going by its 2022 debut game Ikai, and now its upcoming project Silent Road, its founders are huge fans of Japanese culture, especially when it comes to horror.

"We are not close to any specific genre, but we do like narrative games, so all of them are based around a story, and we are Japanese culture lovers," co-founder Laura Ripoll Galán tells me. Given it's a two-person studio, she wears many hats in development, though she says these include producing, design, as well as audio, the latter especially key in enhancing a spooky atmosphere.

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