Losing Limbs and Loving It: The Lacerator with Developer Fernando Tittz
Fernando Tittz (Games from the Abyss) went from personal trainer to solo horror developer, and his third game is something else entirely. The Lacerator is a survival horror game where you can lose your limbs—and keep playing. Lose a leg? You're crawling now, sneaking under tables, weaker in combat but stealthier. Find a chainsaw? Strap it to your stump and get back in the fight.
The game pulls from grindhouse movies like Planet Terror, trashy B-movies, and Brazilian comedy sketches to create something that mixes genuine horror with deliberate cheese. Think Resident Evil meets intentionally bad acting and a protagonist who's too egotistical to realize how screwed he is.
I sat down with Fernando at PAX to talk about building adaptive gameplay around dismemberment, why PS1 graphics make things creepier, and how he studied serial killers for his antagonist.
I interviewed other developers at horror publisher DreadXP about their upcoming games, so stay tuned for more videos like this soon!
