me: What you have to understand is that games fundamentally lack touch. They lack the ability to feel the ground underfoot, the wind on your face, every little sensation that makes you feel grounded in reality. But what you can do is accentuate the sounds of things that the player should be able to feel—footsteps, ambient wind, the things you press and poke—to trick their mind into bringing them to the foreground. They don't sound loud because they are loud, but because they are an occluded, imperfect view of a more multifaceted, tactile sensory experience. To me, that's why the Dark engine games hit different.
the chaser sitting across the table from me: I've made a terrible mistake
