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BRING TO LIGHT BY SHIVAM BALIYAN The developer behind “Bring to Light,” a horror video game that drops a player into a subway system filled with lurking creatures, Makse designed the game to take in readings from a player’s heartbeat and incorporate that data to make the experience as scary as possible. “Nothing makes your heart race faster than [hearing] a racing heartbeat,” Makse said. “If you are wearing the heart-rate monitor sometimes you can hear the heartbeat... and it’s your own heartbeat that you hear.” “Bring to Light” is one of only a few video games in the industry that uses biometrics, in which the physical responses of a player’s body alters their in-game experience — and improves the game for other players as well. Makse’s system reads a player’s heart rate monitor to change their experience and amplify the terror they feel in real time. If their heart rate indicates their experience could be heightened by more fear, the game’s system might amp up...