godot-genre-horror

Use a dual-brain design: a Director that hints the monster toward the player's general area, plus honest senses using PhysicsDirectSpaceState3D.intersect_ray for vision and spatial noise emitters for sound. Add a suspicion meter or 1-3 second reaction window before full aggression.

Implement a sawtooth pacing model with a Director autoload that cycles through buildup, peak scare, and dedicated relief phases. Constant maximum tension numbs players, so enforce quiet periods and safe rooms between scares.

Yes, the skill targets Godot 4.x and includes migration notes covering version hops from 4.0 through 4.7, including volumetric fog changes, AreaLight3D flicker panels, and AudioStreamPlayer area_mask defaults introduced in 4.7.

Synchronous file I/O and load() calls block the main thread. Use Thread with Mutex for safe-room checkpoint saves and ResourceLoader.load_threaded_request for heavy scare scenes or 4K textures to prevent frame stalls.

Drive camera shake intensity, audio bus low-pass filtering, and screen distortion shaders from a single sanity value. Use sampler2D with hint_screen_texture for screen-reading shaders and is_equal_approx thresholds instead of exact float equality.