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A new kind of real-life game aims to scare you senseless by reading your bio-data (such as your heart rate) and responding accordingly.

Called Hyde, it is described as a mix of the Crystal Maze and the video game Portal.

Players enter a creepy maze and need to find their way thorugh, completing challenges and dodging enemies (actors) as they progress.

Each player will be fitted with sensors and the game will respond to their physical state. For example, it may refuse to open a door until a players heart rate drops below a certain point.

"Imagine a game that can track your emotional state," said Simon Evans, who co-founded Slingshot Effect, the company behind Hyde.

"It’ll be real-life psychological thriller, where what people imagine is far more terrifying than what they see. It will be a horror of the mind, drawing people to the thing they fear most."

As for the plot, it involves players taking part in an experimental trial of a new drug developed by the Jekyll Corporation.

The Bristol-based company is currently seeking £50,000 of funding on Kickstarter to develop the experience.

“We have put together a number of packages that will enable funders to not only get exclusive access to tickets for the opening weeks, but to also participate in the design and development process," said Evans.

"For example, the ‘Lab Rat perk’ will allow players to come to the maze during development and be wired into Hyde to offer up their bio-data to help us test and feedback on the experience. And the ‘Mad Scientist perk’, where funders can help us design one of the rooms in the maze and get credit."

Slingshot anticipates being able to launch the experience in London in late March or early April of 2016 if funding is successful.