Dentist Designs A Horror Game In MS Paint

Polish dentist Pawel Kozminski has another life besides helping people with their tooth problems. His other life is spent on coding his passion project, World of Horror. World of Horror is a retro throwback RPG inspired by the works of Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Instead of using custom animation software for the game, he used MS Paint to build the game’s world. Gizmodo has the details:

The game is set in a small seaside Japanese town just as the “Old Gods are reawakening, clawing their way back into a world that’s spiraling into madness.” It features a series of branching stories helmed by five playable characters, and gameplay involves turn-based combat and “unravel[ing] puzzles and mysteries through spells that sacrifice sanity.”

Usually, game developers save themselves the horror of creating complex works in such a dated program by using custom animation software. Not Kozminski, who told Engadget that he specifically chose MS Paint for its limitations. “Creating art in Paint is actually really inspiring and somehow relaxing. The limits of the program really force you to get creative with it, which is a huge thing. I guess 1-bit black-and-white art is the closest I can get to simulate that comic book feel, too.”