A Look at the Amnesia Franchise as a Part of the Internet History

In the late 2010, the first videos of screaming youtubers began to emerge from seemingly out of nowhere. Horrified faces blabbered incoherent curses as ominous instrumentals accompanied dark cellar walls on their way to bring terror to a wider audience. These wall would later come to house one of the most infamous and terrifying monsters to ever come out of any videogame ever and leave a lasting impression on the audience and industry alike. Today, we will be looking at the story behind the infamous videogame Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a game that shaped Youtube for years and that turned the tables of its content for even longer. Studio Conception and Penumbra Projects Back in January 2007, a freelance artist Thomas Grip and a musician Jens Nilsson decided to band together and found a game studio, naming it Frictional Games . Despite having zero experience in the videogame industry and having only few small software projects behind them, they set off to create their ...