In December '10, one simple guy downloaded the mod tools of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and thought of a story: "What if one day, you wake up as a patient in a hospital, without any memory of yourself? What are you going to believe? Or... Who are you going to believe?..."
Since then, that simple idea and cr*ppy levels grew bigger and stronger; and in ten months became a total conversion modification with 'Best Potential' award for Amnesia: The Dark Descent, where it takes you from murky castles of 19th century to an old fashioned asylum trying to meet to modern day standards of 2000s.
White Night is a completely story oriented game, created by Tanshaydar; where you embody someone who has no memory, someone who tries to find what really happened and someone who does not know what or who to believe. White Night is not created to be a 'scary game', therefore to scare players is not its main concern; but it is created to tell a story, thus have a little different way of story-telling which you need to follow carefully. Exploration is always awarded.
White Night has its scares, and even they are related to story too. You can watch the teaser to have idea what it would be like playing White Night, but since you play as character who remembers nothing, it would be best to play without knowing much.
Also, you can read the pre-release review from C-zom (Glenn), the creator of fascinating Worry of Newport. I'd like to thank him for his thoughtful and comprehensive review.
To enjoy White Night, you need patch 1.20 (Justine) installed alongside your Amnesia: The Dark Descent installation.
Also available on Desura!
Translations
There are translations planned for White Night. For now, Turkish, German, Italian, Greek, Castilian, Dutch, Portuguese and Romanian are planned. If you want to contribute a translation, feel free to contact me and I'll get your translation to the game.
Help?
Many of the modern looking models are converted from Penumbra games, which is a series from creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Frictional Games. So, if you don't already have it, buy their game to support them.
If you really liked White Night and have a few cents to spare, I'd highly appreciate any donation, as I'm a student and have some needs.
I'd like to thank all of my voice actors for their great contribution. Without them, White Night would be an ordinary night. They have great talent.
David - David Lyon
Grace - Amanda Ford
Sofia - Deyanira Gomez
Patrick - Ryan Terry (Cry, yes, and he will make a LP of WN)
Psychiatr - Miss Rigi
Do not forget!
I am not here to scare you.
I have a story to tell.
I am here to heal your mind...
PS. White Night is my first 3D game/mod released ever. I'll be writing postmortems of White Night along with the some things I learned in these 10 months in my personal blog. So if you are interested in the development process and behind the scenes of White Night, check them out.
I guess that's it! I hope you'll have fun playing White Night!
Congratulations on the release. My utmost to you for future projects.
It actually looks like one of the best Amnesia mods :)
Congrats man. It's all coming together. Updated all the sites this goes at. Will recommend it to Mxthe also, the maker of Underhell, he always likes good writing.
CONGRATULATIONS ON THE RELEASE!!!!!!!!!
just watching the trailer gave me spooks.
Tiny bit of what I played so far; I have to say...
The voice acting is NOT bad...what is bad is that it sounds like someone used a cheap headset to record some of the voices, and it shows. The voices are actually good & realistic, but the recording quality is awful. I myself am planning to buy a recording mic, and my audiophile friend told me that without spending several hundred dollars, I could get a good one, I recommend you tell your VA's to use these in the future:
Auzentech.com
Like 90$, and very good quality. Best bang for yer buck out there right now. Only reason I stopped playing was to defrag; cause I was experiencing a WEIRD stutter, which kills the whole exploration thing...so hoping that fixes it.
i had to update =(
didnt even know there was a 1.2 lol
i didnt no there was one either and i cant play it i downloaded it.. but i need the update to justine 1.2. can you help out thanks
just google amnesia patch update 1.2. it should take you to Frictional games page .. thats what i did
you can't update if you just downloaded the game
Reminds me alot of the HL2 mod: Korsakovia!
I couldn't help thinking that either. I don't wanna say he ripped it, but the setting, the voice acting, and general style so far reminded me of like a professional Korsakovia, which is a good thing, cause unlike Dear Esther, it wasn't getting a HD Remake.
Is more Silent Hill then Korsakovia, and i played both, just play Silent Hill 2 PC (it still looks good today) and you will have a few surprises. ;D
I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Unfortunately I'll have to wait until my PC is up and running again before I play it. Congrats on the final release though, Tanshaydar!
Good news! I hope the fast transition to foreign languages!
OH ****!!?? I clicked the play button for the trailer and I heard that voice that said, "David, wake up, I need you to come back." It scared the **** out of me because my name is David >:(
Interesting thing is, the man voicing the character David, has the same name: David.
Haha! That's like me! My name is Daniel like in Amnesia! xD
after you kill someone :DDD
i have found a few bad things.. the dead character models.... lets say they are basically still in poly form. the lighting on some lamps are very weird, and the AI is a little off, but it is a first release and im sure updates will come. other than that. ITS REALLY GOOD
This is SUPER GOOD! I havn't finished yet because of every single scary event. :D When I see something so freaken scary, I save and quit like that! I almost wet my pants!
I love when new custom stories for amnesia release. Playing old stories again doesn't scare you anymore. I'm definitely gonna try this one.
When talking of translations... how many words are we facing here? Just a rough estimate? Mainly dialogue or extensive descriptions?
I could do a translation into german. Just drop me a line.
I'm having a very hard time figuring out the puzzle to get into sofias office...can anyone help me?
lol im screwed on that part. i dont have any batteries and my flash light went dead as i was entering the code so... i cant see what im doing XD
YAY! Dont mind if I LP this :3
great mod..and the music is quite scary.Thanks!
So far, I love it! I'm to the point with the working phonograph, and I've been running back and forth around the lobby and the rooms upstairs, and can't figure out how to progress! Any quick tips in the right direction?
There is a piano near phonograph. There are 6 buttons you can press on the piano. You should press buttons in the right order, so that what you heard from piano would imitate what you heard from phonograph.
Awesome! Can't wait to try it out!!
when i pass the nightmare part in the beginning where you must jump from turning beds and offices to a lightbol, it starts leaking and it isn't even fun to play anymore.....
someone please help me!!!
I can't get it to work. Everytime i run the "White_Night.bat" I get a black screen and nothing elese happens. I need to open the task-manager and a crash log appears. Any thoughts? Please help me! P.S. i have the 1.2 installed! (no steam)
anybody know where i can get some batteries. im trying to get into the Doctors office and as i was trying to enter the code.. my batteries died and i cant find anymore =(
Try to use screwdriver on locked doors.
dont have the screwdriver.. but i figured it out!
music in the Patient Ward is really creepy..now im outside and i cant figure out how to open the door..... unless like you said i need the screwdriver
Broken iron pipes will be useful.
I'm at the part with the fireball water monster things and I have the empty gas can. I can't find the generator or any gasoline.
I have no idea what to do here.
Stack a box to climb up back the way you came and use the storage room key to go in one of the rooms in the hallway. You can fill the gas can in there and then go further back and use it on the generator.
I meant to reply sooner but THANK YOU. I never would have figured that out on my own.
Later in the game, after walking up the front stairs to get into the hospital, I open the door and get: FATAL ERROR: Could not load script file 'maps/white_night/D:/Amneisa - The Dark Descent/redist/maps/white_night/08_entrance.hps'! main(309, 2): ERR : No matching signatures to 'MovePlayerForward(const uint)'
Why didn't you have 1.2 update while I was strictly telling so?
hey Cylinsier do you fix it the ATAL ERROR: Could not load script file 'maps/white_night/D:/Amneisa - The Dark Descent/redist/maps/white_night/08_entrance.hps'! main(309, 2): ERR : No matching signatures to 'MovePlayerForward(const uint)' ????
D=
instead of kosakovia, it reminded me more of Nightmare House 2. just the atmosphere at least. But congrats on the release, and looks great. May just have to download this and check it out
The gun-slinging, shoot em up, Nightmare House 2 reminded you of a game with no weapons?
The game keeps crashing at the stairs after the note telling you to run and not look back. What do I do?