Horror Game Environment Prompt

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Design a horror game environment for [setting: abandoned hospital / underground lab / Victorian manor / deep space station].

Requirements:
- Lighting should guide the player while creating dread: one safe zone, one danger zone, one unknown.
- Include environmental storytelling: 3 discoverable narrative details visible in the scene.
- Design sightlines that create anticipation (long corridors, blind corners, reflective surfaces).
- Specify audio design cues that pair with the visual: ambient, proximity, and jump triggers.
- Show one "before the horror" version and one "after something went wrong" version.

Return:
- environment concept
- lighting zones with gameplay function
- environmental storytelling inventory
- audio design pairing notes
- before/after comparison

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