Radar
Hi Shaka,
The thing is very very black doesnt make a game scary, it just makes it annoying to play. I garantee that if you do make it "Black", people will ether stop playing or turn the contast up.
Now, stop for a moment and think, what FPS games were scary? Now fair enough often the scaryones are the ones with "Low" light, like some rooms in Doom 3, but the first thing everyone who played Doom 3 did, was download the gaffer tape patch so they could have a tourch all the time.
What makes a scary game in terms of lighting is .... Shadows. Now this means that the game cannot be picth black, because there has to be light for there to be shadows. Now some people will say that its the gameplay that makes it scary, and they are right as well. But scary gameplay with shadows is alot better than scary game play when you cannot see anything
H&K