Slender – The Eight Pages
Slender - The Eight Pages is a free survival horror computer game that was released in June 2012 for the operating systems Windows and Mac OS X ( a version for Linux was announced ) and on the internet history of the Slender Man builds.
Game mechanics and plot
The place to be in Slender - The Eight Pages is a forest at night. The functions of the player provided are very limited. Besides the ability to move more or less quickly, the player only has a flashlight whose battery has run out after a certain time, and the ability to run for a short period. However, the virtual I exhausted relatively quickly, which is evident on the basis of the heavy breathing and the return to normal speed. The forest, in which the player can move, is bounded by a fence, so it is not possible to fall for in a possible void at the edge of the game world and thus cause a crash of the game. In addition to numerous trees and other objects such as vehicles, small houses, rocks, pipes or gas tanks are available. Between the trees are way to recognize that lead to certain points. However, the player must not comply with this, but can move freely in the world, taking into account the above-mentioned fence.
Aim of the game
A clear action is in Slender - not to recognize The Eight Pages. Per -screen text experienced by the player that he must find a total of eight distributed in the game world pages, but nothing more. On these small notes or drawings are usually depicted, concerning the Slender Man, who chases the player through the forest. Whenever the player finds another of eight pages, the game becomes more challenging as the Slender Man pursues the player every occurring side faster and more accurately. Also, the sound gets more dramatic with each found page. If the player has all eight sides took possession does not end the game, the player will instead continue chased by Slenderman, until you are caught. After following the credits the game ends successfully and the tag mode is enabled, which allows a slightly better view, but also the horror factor is not insignificant runterschraubt.
Slender Man
→ Main article: Slender Man In addition to the players of the Slender Man is the only animal in Slender - The Eight Pages and represents the enemy of the game, since he chases the player through the forest. The Slender Man is a thin, hulking creature with extended arms and wearing a black suit. His pale white face without eyes is practically impossible and only extremely coarse to detect. If the player is in the vicinity of the Slender Mans, the displayed image will be distorted and noise is heard, what should be that the Slender Man is causing interference in the vicinity of technical devices ( and the computer is a technical device, even if the disorder occurs only in the game and in no way relates to the hardware ). Finally reaches the Slender Man the player, so the control is disabled and the camera turns to the face of Slender Man, after which the screen flickers and the game ends. If the player manages to find all eight pages, so the game does not end, but the player wanders through the forest until Slender Man finds him, whereupon the guy follows and the game ends. The Slender Man is now in many other games of the opponent, for example, in the games of Marc Steene, developer of Slender Man 's Shadow.
Development and publication
Slender developed by Mark J. Hadley, who is known on YouTube under the pseudonym AgentParsec, based on the Unity engine.
Slender is currently available in the beta version 0.9.7. Since version 0.9.4, there is a day mode, which differs from the old version that the player does not need a flashlight. The day mode is, however, only be activated if the player has already found all eight pages. Since version 0.9.5 there is also a "MH " mode that is based on the Internet History Marble Hornets. With version 0.9.7, the game was officially Slender - renamed The Eight Pages in order to distinguish it from future versions. In addition, two new flashlights modes added ( a flashlight that needs to be cranked for recharging and a light stick ).
As an Easter Egg there was a 20 dollar mode, in which the song was played Gimme 20 Dollars Ron Browz rapper if the Slender Man showed up. This was removed in version 0.9.7 due to copyright infringement.
Slender is currently being re-developed by independent developers based on the Source Engine and among other things, be equipped with a cooperative multiplayer mode.
Beginning of September 2012 announced that Mark J. Hadley, that he was working on a successor to Blue Isle Studios, which under the name of Slender: The Arrival is published. The beta of the successor is available at a low purchase price since 13 February 2013. The publication of the final game was on 26 March 2013.