Hong Kong’s famed Kowloon Walled City was a ramshackle, ever-growing colossus of haphazardly-connected high-rise buildings, ungoverned by the country’s health or sanitation authorities. Before its demolition in 1993, some 33,000 families resided and worked for a living in dank, windowless apartments, with some children having never seen true sunlight. Squatters, criminals, and drug addicts alike dwelled in the city’s corridors, mingling with great fleshy spiders and sanity-sucking tentacles.
Well, okay – the monster spiders or tentacles probably weren’t part of the real Walled City, but they’re a squirm-inducing addition in New Zealand developer Eyemobi’s procedurally generated horror game Phantasmal, which takes place in the notorious metropolis after its residents have been evicted, just weeks before demolition.
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Well, okay – the monster spiders or tentacles probably weren’t part of the real Walled City, but they’re a squirm-inducing addition in New Zealand developer Eyemobi’s procedurally generated horror game Phantasmal, which takes place in the notorious metropolis after its residents have been evicted, just weeks before demolition.
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