Haunted Dorm Interview: Producer, Meiyu Li, discusses the positive performance and plagiarism accusations for its tower defence game

Halloween might be behind us but that doesn’t mean the horror season has to be over. In case you missed its release on Android and iOS in February this year, Haunted Dorm is the chilling tower defence game by indie studio Mihuan Limited and its one of the few genuinely nerve-wracking and original horror releases to spring up in the past year. There are of course good reasons for this; most major studios tend to shy away from horror-themed games in general as it’s a niche market, and building an original game that’s genuinely scary is a challenging task. For Mihuan Limited, this challenge was made all the more tricky due to China’s strict censorship rules on horror games - which required some ingenious workarounds where the Ghost antagonist for the Chinese version is disguised as a teacher, stalking the school dorms - as well as continued claims of plagiarism from other studios. ... [MORE]

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