2005 Abandoned Japanese House

Title: Abandoned Japanese House¶

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"This is an aside, but when the game idea of Fatal Frame III came to me, I decided to model the game after an old, abandoned Japanese house where I played in my childhood. The house did not have a door, was crumbled inside, was dark even on a sunny day, and had the atmosphere that something like ghosts were in there. My friends and I played a game with the house. The rule of the game was that you had to bring something out of the house, such as a piece of paper, a book, a broken doll, or something like that. And we imagined what had happened in the house based on those items we brought out. It was thrilling to go into somewhere you shouldn't and collect fragmentary information there. I wanted to put a part of this thrill in the game.

(One day, I saw an old woman pushing a baby carriage in the house. I do not know if she was a ghost or real, but she should not have been there anyway. The old woman appears in my game.)"

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In this blog excerpt, Shibata discusses his childhood experience in an abandoned house that inspires a location in Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. He also describes a paranormal encounter which makes it into the game as an enemy ghost.

This excerpt is taken from a series of blog posts, called "Developer Diaries" written ahead of the release of Fatal Frame III: The Tormented for North America in 2005 on the PlayStation 2 platform. These posts are intended to give insight into the process of developing a given game, as well as act as a source of PR for the game's release.

Source Information¶

Original Source Citation: Shibata, Makoto. "Fatal Frame III: Dev Diary #4." GameSpy. November 4, 2005. http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/fatal-frame-3/664167p1.html.


Source Type:	blog
Source URL:	http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/fatal-frame-3/664167p3.html
Date Published:	2005-11-04
Date Collected:	2023-07-31
Associated File Name:	Shibata_Fatal Frame III Dev Diary 3_Part 2.pdf