Asylum (2011 video game)
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Asylum is an upcoming survival horror adventure game
, that will be released in 2012, being developed by Senscape, an independent video game developer located in Buenos Aires
, Argentina
. The game is being authored by Agustín Cordes, who previously designed the game Scratches for the now defunct developer Nucleosys
. Taking place in a fictional insane asylum called the Hanwell Mental Institute, players will be able to fully explore the institute, which is partially based on blueprints of real asylums.
The game was officially announced on July 9, 2010 after a previous viral marketing
campaign that involved a series of online videos posted on YouTube
alleged to be posted by an escaped inmate called Leonard Huntings. A fake website for the Hanwell Mental Institute was also created. The first official screenshots were posted on August 12, 2011.
Adventure game
An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...
, that will be released in 2012, being developed by Senscape, an independent video game developer located in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. The game is being authored by Agustín Cordes, who previously designed the game Scratches for the now defunct developer Nucleosys
Nucleosys
Nucleosys was a video game developer based in Argentina specializing in the adventure genre. The company was founded in 2003 by Agustin Cordes and Alejandro Graziani. On July 15, 2009 Nucleosys was announced to be disbanding....
. Taking place in a fictional insane asylum called the Hanwell Mental Institute, players will be able to fully explore the institute, which is partially based on blueprints of real asylums.
The game was officially announced on July 9, 2010 after a previous viral marketing
Viral marketing
Viral marketing, viral advertising, or marketing buzz are buzzwords referring to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of viruses...
campaign that involved a series of online videos posted on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
alleged to be posted by an escaped inmate called Leonard Huntings. A fake website for the Hanwell Mental Institute was also created. The first official screenshots were posted on August 12, 2011.