Ghost Face? Ripley? Nicolas Cage? They're all part of the wildest horror game around, and Behaviour Interactive's Mathieu Côté and Dave Richard are here to celebrate M athieu Côté, the director of eclectic horror game Dead By Daylight , has something to admit. “I’ve famously always been a wuss,” he tells NME , grinning sheepishly over Zoom. “I used to have nightmares about Jabba the Hutt.
” Creative director Dave Richard, who’s also on the call, laughs mercilessly at Côté. It’s a surprising confession, given he works on one of the biggest horror games in the world. A competitive multiplayer game, Dead By Daylight pits four people (called survivors) against a fifth player (the killer) who must catch and slaughter them all.
Its characters are a mix of original heroes and villains, and some of the biggest names in horror – think Chucky, Ghost Face, and Freddy Krueger – are included. Since launching in 2016, Dead By Daylight has found success after success, and is now played by over 60 million people. Keeping a game alive for eight years is no small feat, but its Canadian developer, Behaviour Interactive , hasn’t stopped there.
It’s since released dating sim spin-off Hooked On You and announced a tie-in psychological horror game called The Casting Of Frank Stone , while a film adaptation with Insidious production studio Blumhouse is in the works. If managing all of this keeps Côté and Richard up at night, it doesn’t show. The pair are jovial.
