Martha is Dead seems to have some things in common with your previous title, The Town of Light, in that they’re both psychological horror stories taking place in historical settings. This path has been followed both to make the gameplay more interesting and freer, and to allow the player to feel the presence of the environment that surrounds him/her more, as a protagonist and witness of what happens. The environments are not so big as to be dispersive and there is no shortage of things to do.
Everything else is something that happens to her and has value only in this vision. Each of us sees reality with our own eyes and one of the most challenging works in Martha Is Dead, as in our previous title, was to “deform” reality so that it appears subjective. When I say deform reality, I don’t mean to deform the historical and cultural facts of a period, which shape the people who live it, I mean rather to deform it from a perceptive point of view.Ĭan you talk about what players can expect from the game’s free exploration aspect, in terms of the size of the environments and how the game will encourage and reward exploration?ĭalco: The environment contains several gameplay elements that are not mandatory, but help a lot in understanding and deepening the story. Luca Dalco (Writer / Director): The central point of Martha Is Dead is the protagonist. What sort of a balance does the game strike between these aspects? With its WW2 setting, the central crux of personal loss, and its psychological horror trappings, there’s certainly a lot going on in Martha is Dead, story-wise. "Each of us sees reality with our own eyes and one of the most challenging works in Martha Is Dead, as in our previous title, was to “deform” reality so that it appears subjective. When I say deform reality, I don’t mean to deform the historical and cultural facts of a period, which shape the people who live it, I mean rather to deform it from a perceptive point of view." Below, you can read our interview with LKA’s Luca Dalco, writer and director of Martha is Dead, and Tommaso Bonanni, part of LKA’s external development team.
To learn more about the game and what makes it tick, we recently reached out to its developers and learned some interesting things in the process. One upcoming game that fans of the genre have had an eye on for a while is Martha is Dead– a first person psychological horror game set in a World War 2-torn Italy in 1944, and with its mixture of the realities of war, the unsettling elements of psychological horror, and the usage of folklore to achieve that, it’s promising an interesting blend. Fans of horror games have been treated with a wave of great entries in the genre in recent years, and that momentum is only going to continue as we move forward.
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