game news For a dollar, they used this quote from a horror king to include it in Alan Wake
When the tormented novelist Remedy (Max Payne) has dreamed up is about to return, we learn that one of the masters of horror has been very kind to the Finnish studio.
Stephen King an author…
If Alan Wake’s first episode set the mood, it was less because of its gameplay and more because of its story, which tells the misadventures of a novelist by inspiration. Tired of seeing her lover brooding, Alice takes her husband Alan to Bright Falls, a small town surrounded by a vast lake, to recharge her batteries. Fear of the white sheet quickly turns into fear of the dark night, as supernatural creatures will emerge from the shadows. Worse, Alice disappears. As Alan tries to track down his wife, the writer must face an unlikely event: in the forest of Bright Falls, he finds the pages of a novel he appears to have written but has no memory of… and those written in it Adventures are the ones he must face.
Does that strike you as strange? This is perfectly normal. Alan Wake has fun losing the player in different realities. The game’s relatively open ending doesn’t provide all the explanations, but we can’t blame Remedy: in the introduction to the software, Alan Wake begins with a monologue that warns the player from the start. In fact, from the very first few seconds of the game, the novelist comments: “Stephen King wrote: Nightmares are illogical and it would be pointless to explain them, it would be contrary to the poetry of fear. In a horror story, the victim keeps asking why, but there’s no explanation, and it shouldn’t be the case. It’s the unanswered mysteries that shape us the most, and that’s what we remember in the end.“
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“I’ll take it for a dollar”
Citing an author in another work is never free. Sam Lake, the head of Remedy, was keen to start the events of Alan Wake with this quote from the famous writer, without really knowing how much it would cost him. In an interview with EurogamerSam Lake says: “When I first created Alan Wake, I really wanted a quote from Stephen King to open the game. I understand he only wanted a dollar to give us the rights to use it. It was very generous“. King allegedly only asked Remedy for a token dollar so that the developers could copy a passage from “Why Hollywood can’t make horror” in her horror game. Alan Wake II is still expected for October 17, 2023 on PC, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5.
