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Join members of the development team at Schell Games for a deep dive into Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire, an upcoming VR horror game. The latest trailer showcases the creepy castle setting, gameplay, puzzles, and tools you'll use during your quest to slay vampires. Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire will be available on Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and Meta Quest 3 VR headsets in 2024.

In Silent Slayer: Vault of the Vampire, players take on the role of an intrepid vampire hunter who must enter a foreboding castle and eliminate a council of evil slumbering vampires. The castle is vast, dark, and gloomy, filled with dangerous foes asleep in coffins. To reach the sleeping vampires, hunters must carefully disarm various traps, find the vampires’ hearts, and perform binding rituals to slay the creatures.
Transcript
00:00 "Stay calm. Look sharp. Keep silent. Slower. Gently."
00:25 In Silent Slayer, you take on the role of a vampire hunter, infiltrating a castle filled
00:30 with evil vampires. Your goal is to carefully disarm the traps so you can slay them in their
00:38 sleep.
00:39 "When players first play in Silent Slayer, they will find themselves in a gloomy, creepy,
00:46 and evil, but also incredibly gorgeous place called the Castle Tsar."
00:51 "There are empty libraries. There are haunted hallways."
00:57 "These vampires wrote and engraved their magic spells in vampiric alphabets all over the
01:03 castle and also on most of their defensive traps. So, a coffin for the vampire, they
01:09 can really tell the status and aesthetic preferences of whoever sleeps in there."
01:15 Silent Slayer is a game of you directly in front of a vampire. Thanks to the immersion
01:21 of being in VR, you are alone in the castle, and it's just you and a vampire who might
01:27 eat you.
01:28 "Imagine a creature with bloody red eyes and sharp teeth jumping out of the darkness
01:33 to attack you."
01:40 The key aspects of the experience of Silent Slayer are discovery, tension, and overcoming
01:48 obstacles.
01:49 "Players will face a variety of traps, so you need to be precise and quiet, and any
01:56 wrong move and you might regret it."
01:59 So at first you may see some trip wires, and you'll have to learn to carefully position
02:03 your snips to get through those wires.
02:06 "While disarming traps, sound is used to warn a player to tell them how well they're
02:13 doing."
02:14 "The watchful idol is a doll that watches the player, and if the player moves, the doll
02:22 will start to scream just to tell the player, 'You messed up.'"
02:27 "Stop moving!"
02:35 Each chapter of Silent Slayer is broken into two halves. The first half is time with the
02:41 book preparing for the coffin ahead.
02:44 "First, there are also bindstones that the player must assemble, kind of like a big 3D
02:52 jigsaw puzzle. Certain traps require the use of certain tools, so the player really needs
02:58 to understand which tool goes to which trap."
03:02 In order to get to the vampire, the player must first find their heart. There is a tool
03:09 that we refer to as the heart tool that players use to locate a vampire's heart wherever
03:15 it may be in their chest.
03:19 Then they perform the binding ritual to unlock the last magical barrier of defense that's
03:27 keeping them from killing this vampire, and also bind that vampire in place. And so we
03:34 want players to feel scared, we want them to feel the tension of those moments, but
03:40 ultimately we want them to feel accomplished when they finally succeed in their goal and
03:46 slay the vampires of the castle.
03:49 [Vampire grunts]
03:52 [Vampire sighs]
03:55 (dramatic music)
03:58 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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