Alan Wake's American Nightmare (Windows)

Alan Wake's American Nightmare is a standalone spinoff to Alan Wake, that combines the latter's gameplay with the wild action and campy silliness of a B movie.

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Prototype Info

Unused Cinematics#

The game's data/videos folder has one unused .bik video clip which is also present in the first game's videos folder. The video in the file is named "ingame_tv_trailer.bik" and is also preasent in the videos folder of the previous game. It appears to be a very low quality version of the E3 2009 trailer of the first Alan Wake game.

Unused Audio#

There are several unused voicelines in the game files. Like the previous game, most of those are extra narrations that were likely removed to not overly hold the player's hand.

Act 1#

Desert Shore Motel#

Grunts from Alan as he wakes up at the start of the level. Oddly there are different grunts for each time he wakes up at the start of a loop, but only the grunts for the second loop are used.

Extra narration about the nature of the town and the setting, which is absent in the final game

Extra line for Emma, likely meant for her turning off the radio when Alan approaches her

Narration meant to happen after the Setilight crash scene, which is not heard in the game itself

Extra lines of narration about Emma's death

A LINE OF Mr. Scratch laughthing

A comment from Alan regarding the keys he picks up at the diner. In the game itself, he doesn't say anything when picking up the keys.

Observetory#

A comment from Alan, likely about the observetory itself.

When searching for the valves, it seems that Alan would've been able to interact with a map that would show him where the valves are, and Dr. Meadows would comment on that.

Drive-in Theater#

A comment from Alan about a movie poster or a sign.

Alan reactiong to something being thrown at him, likely meant for a part where a car is being thrown around.

Act 2#

Desert Shore Motel#

Extra line of narration at the start of the loop, absent from the game itself.

Another line of narration about the events repeating themselves, pointing the player to go to the motel once more. This line is absent from the game itself and the player is left figuring out to go to the motel by either the objective text or by their own intuition.

A scripted painted grunt from Alan, not heard in the game.

A part of the conversation between Alan and Emma during the fight with the taken at the motel, which is absent in the game itself.

Another part of narration which would be played when Alan enters the room with the dead man once again. There is no narration on this part at the game itself.

Observetory#

A line from Dr. Meadows which is absent in the game.

A scripted painted grunt from Alan, not heard in the game.

Drive-in Theater#

A comment from Alan upon seeing Alice's film in a poster or a sign.

Act 3#

Desert Shore Motel#

Grunts from Alan upon waking up at the start of the loop.

An extra line at the end of a secret conversation with Emma upon checking on her early on the level, telling Alan to go on. This line is absent from the game.

An unused line from Emma upon seeing Alan again.

An unused conversation between Emma and Alan during the fight with the taken at the motel at this loop.

Comments from Alan upon going to secure the fusebox behind Emma's garage to prevent her from being killed again.

Observetory#

A comment from alan about the gate being open and needing to find another way in. In the game itself the gate can still be unlocked.

An unused line from Dr. Meadows during the battle with the taken inside the observetory.

Drive-in Theater#

Passive lines from Serena in her touched form, meant to be heard from a distence when the player would get close to her office.

An entire unused conversation with Serena in her touched form, which would've happened before restoring the power in the nearby power plant and being able to remove the darkness from her. In the third loop, the player starts directly at the power plant and it is impossible to reach Serena's office prior to restoring the power. When entering her office in the game itself she has no lines in her touched form until the player turns on the lights.

Two unused lines from Mr. Scratch, likely meant for the final battle with the taken outside the projectore booth.

Miscellaneous#

• There are folders and files for 6 arcade maps in the game files, while the game has only 5 unique arcade level. Their Nightmare difficulty counterparts do not count, as they are each stored in different folders named "ArcadeX_Nightmare". The folders for "Arcade2" end up being unused, and the code for the main menu shows that the second arcade map actually loads the assets for "Arcade 3". This affects the numbering for the following maps too, with level 5 being "Arcade 6".
  • It is possible that Arcade2 eventually became Arcade3 and the numbering never changed for some reason, as there are metal crack sound files named "oneshot_arcade2_metal_creak" which can be heard in the final Arcade 2(Arcade3). The folders for "Arcade2" also only contain low level terrain files, with no collision or asset logs compared to the other arcade folders used in the game. However, it's just as possible that all the leftovers from the original "Arcade2" that were never used elsewhere were removed entirely given that the game had a strict size limit as part of the Xbox Live Arcade program and thus doesn't have leftovers and unused assets in the files, especially compared to its predecessor.
• There is an ambience preset naming the Arcade 5 map "Junkyard" while its name in the final game is "Caves".