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High Concept

Either play as or escape from various killers including killers from famous 70s and 80s slasher movie killers such as Micheal Myers or Freddy Krueger.

Features

Player Motivation

Either escape from the killer with three other survivors or kill all four survivors as the killer.

Genre

Horror unilateral competition game

License

The game has several licensed killers and survivors.

Licenses used include:

The killers used from these Licenses have had their methods of killing in the movie adapted for the game. For example Michael Myers gets stronger by stalking the survivors before trying to kill them.

Genre

Horror unilateral competition game

Target Customer

Horror fans and fans of unilateral games

Competition

Friday the 13th: The game. Friday the 13th only has one available killer while Dead by Daylight has many, and the dynamics of escaping and hiding from the killer are very different. In Friday the 13th through effort Jason can be killed while the killers in dead by daylight cannot be.

Unique selling points

Target Hardware

PC, Xbox One, PS4

Design Goals

  1. Tension as the survivor of trying to get your objective done without being killed by the killer, and Tension as the killer to try and juggle four survivors and kill them before they get their objective done.
  2. Feeling of cleverness for outsmarting the killer to live longer or outsmarting the survivors to kill them faster.

Characters

Different killer have different abilities of various complexity to help them catch and kill survivors which you can choose depending on what play style you want and how comfortable you are with playing as the killer. While there is a cast of survivors available to play as there is no mechanical difference between them other than the male survivors tend to be larger in stature and thus slightly harder to hide.