“I thought it was a cool setting that people hadn’t used much before in video games. Which wouldn’t be quite so distressing, were it not for the fact that the place is also haunted and you’re being stalked by a malevolent presence throughout.ĭelivering his impromptu elevator pitch, Clarke said: “I’ve distilled my idea into one brief sentence: ‘Dead bodies in a funhouse.’ Because that perfectly sums up what I’m going for! In other words, you’ll be responsible for all manner of gruesome nastiness. Instead, every playthrough will get you to deal with three (randomly selected) cadavers, each with their own unique backstories and preparation requirements.ĭuring any given shift, you’ll have to get bodies out of cold storage, spot their identifying marks, input findings onto the River Fields computer system, drain fluids, make clinical incisions and even dabble with a bit of cremation. Sure enough, those who are keen to hone their embalming technique will have ample opportunity to do so with the Mortuary Assistant’s new build, as you’re no longer merely taking care of a single body. Upon telling us this, Clarke lets out an unnerved chuckle, presumably taken aback by how great an appetite for corpse preservation there is within the gaming community.
At least, that’s according to the feedback I got.” Apparently, that’s what everyone wanted to do the first time around.
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“With this full release version, you’ll finally be able to do the whole embalming process from beginning to end. To find out more, Bloody Disgusting spoke to Clarke in an exclusive interview. Published by DreadXP, he hopes that this more fleshed-out take will be able to satiate those who were (perhaps a little too) invested in completing their original shift over at River Fields funeral parlour. Flash forward two years later and he is now on the cusp of launching a finished version of The Mortuary Assistant on Steam. However, there was something about this prototype that managed to capture people’s attention, which is why Clarke decided to pursue his macabre idea a little further. No matter how efficient you were as an undertaker, you could only ever make it about a third of the way down your to-do list before a demon attacked and then it was game over. While you were performing your duties, lights would flicker of their own accord, scrawled messages instructed you to kill yourself, eerie whispers could be heard emanating from off-screen, and the cadaver you were meant to be operating on unaccountably disappeared from its gurney.Īs a proof of concept, it was a short but sweet experience that culminated with a decent jump scare and an abrupt cut to black (as is tradition for these things). This entailed donning the appropriate attire, mixing the embalming chemicals, and collecting a grisly assortment of tools so that you could make a jugular incision.īeing left alone in that situation is probably scary enough for most people but, this being a horror title, things quickly went from bad to worse. You were subsequently left holding the bag on what turned out to be the mortuary’s busiest night ever and had to prepare all the dead bodies yourself. In it, you played as a funeral director’s newbie apprentice (named Rebecca), who was thrown in at the deep end when her employer bailed on a shift at the very last minute. Serving as a 10-minute appetiser - for what would later be expanded into a full game- the indie horror had a gripping premise.
“The amount of people who want to be morticians, or have some kind of interest in embalming, is alarmingly high!”īrian Clarke (aka DarkStone Digital) discovered just how common it is to have this ghoulish fascination with death, when he released his initial prototype for The Mortuary Assistantback in 2020.
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