Proof Case 02 - The Nightmare Of Eveline Shadow

Founder framing:

• RELiK helped create an immersive horror / real-life game across three stories of the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Amsterdam.
• The experience was built from an existing hotel surface with limited modification and a small budget.
• Guests entered through a metafictional premise: they had been invited to meet horror author Eveline Shadow, but she was missing, the typewriter began writing them into the book, and a hidden hotel wing opened.
• Participants’ submitted fears were assimilated into the experience.
• The result created wonder, controlled fear, recreational adrenaline, laughter, and durable memory.
• This case grounds the operative question: how might we take fear and make it something more beautiful?

Source reference:

• Entered: https://entered.be/en/belevingen/the-nightmare-of-eveline-shadow/
• Verified page title: “The Nightmare of Eveline Shadow”
• Verified source note: Entered describes it as a story-driven horror game at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Amsterdam, from the designers of TERPECA-awarded games including Amsterdam Catacombs, with a 120-minute runtime and an immersive story around Eveline Shadow’s disappearance.

Identity implication:

• RELiK can transform fear into playful intensity, beauty, and unforgettable presence.
• The work uses real-world architecture as a metaphysical instrument.
• The participant is not a passive viewer. The participant becomes subject, character, witness, and co-author.

Design-system implication:

• The Figma library should not only document logos and colors. It should preserve sensory principles: controlled fear, hidden threshold, authored space, low-budget transformation, invitation into the unreal through the real, and afterglow.

Open questions:

• What source materials exist: guest interviews, photos, floor plans, contest materials, scripts, props, press, design docs?
• What can be shared publicly versus held as private production archive?
• Should “Eveline Shadow” become a named RELiK proof case in the public-facing library?