5 Questions With Raymund Teo, Developer of "Devil's Dare"
After his recent quick look of the new retro brawler "Devil's Dare", Casey sits down with Secret Base developer Raymund Teo for a few thoughts behind the horror nature of the game.
"Devil's Dare" shows an obvious love for both the brawler and horror genres, where did you get your inspiration?
Many brawlers back in the days were actually based on existing licenses. For me, that's a big part of what made them fun and so it seems like the obvious choice. There's also the fact that using iconic characters means I don't have to try and explain why things happened. It's so obviously bizarre that nothing is too ridiculous to be questioned and that saved us lots of work.
If you had to describe "Devil's Dare" to someone in one sentence, what would you say?
Devil's Dare is to me, what happens if the entire 90s comes together to have a baby, and that baby just so happens to grow up to be a beat'em up.
How did you choose your iconic bosses and were there any left out of the final game?
I've been hoping to make Sadako from the Ring, and a chinese zombie/vampire, aka Jiang shi, but none of those happened. As for the iconic bosses, I pretty much just picked the most iconic ones from the 90s. One of the things I was going for was making fun of how everything in the 90s was sort of abusing movies rights, with every hero looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger, aliens making appearances in manga like Dragonball Z and Baxter Stockman sharing the exact storyline with the Fly, so that's another thing I took into consideration.
Now that "Devil's Dare" is out, do you have any plans for more horror themed games?
With every game, there's always so much more you want to explore but not get to due to production limitation. Hopefully if sales are good enough, we can look into a sequel or sorts. Fingers crossed!
Finally, there are a lot of horror games out there these days. What's the horror game that truly makes you sit on the edge of your seat?
Fatal Frame, because it pushes you to look for what you are afraid to look at. I love that kind of fear and tension.
Casey
Writer/Podcast Host/Cheerleader
Falling in love with the sounds of his own voice, Casey can be found co-hosting the Bloody Good Horror Podcast, the spinoff Instomatic Podcast as well as the 1951 Down Place Podcast dedicated to Hammer Horror. Casey loves horror films of every budget and lives by his battle cry of 'I watch crap, so you don't have to.'