Your Token White Guy

Around the time Resident Evil came out, I was already part of the Konami team and we wanted to do something similar but different, too. We wanted to achieve something horrific and thrilling at the same time. Stephen King’s movie “The Fog” was a great source of inspiration for us. Our team was brainstorming around that idea, and everyone would give a little piece of the final product with every idea. We loved the concept of the fog, but at the time we couldn’t manage, graphically speaking, what we wanted to ultimately achieve. So in the first game, the fog has two uses: one being the main element where the game develops around. The other use was to help us achieving background and building graphics easily by “hiding” them with the fog. The Playstation system didn’t allow us to go as far as we would have wanted to. But later, with systems such as Playstation 2 or 3, the fog effect was done a lot better and without the need of hiding graphics.