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Student: Akopyan Arina

Educational Programme: Design (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2024

The aim of the visual research "Methods of emotional manipulation in psychological indie-horrors" is to find out the main methods of manipulation on player's emotions in indie-horror games. The research exists to be a manual for future indie horror developers. The result of the research is the list of main manipulation methods and an explanation on each of them.

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