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Designing Horror: Deep Sleep
This post is part of the Designing Horror series. Game: Deep Sleep by scriptwelder Deep Sleep is a game about a person having a dream. Things connect. Things fall apart. There are mysterious dark...
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Swain on Dear Esther
So Eric Swain has an article up at PopMatters about Dear Esther. I have written about Dear Esther extensively on this blog. Faithful readers of this blog will know that I have a particular weird love...
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Designing Horror: Metro 2033
This post is part of the Designing Horror series. Game: Metro 2033 No one told me that this game was actually good when it came out, so when I picked it up for $5 on a Steam sale whim, I was super...
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Designing Horror: Nyctophobia
This post is part of the Designing Horror series. Game: Nyctophobia by Nik Sudan Nyctophobia is a game where you play the saddest British man on the planet. You are a security guard, working your...
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Designing Horror: Hugo’s House of Horrors
This post is part of the Designing Horror series. Game: Hugo’s House of Horrors (a complete playthrough at youtube) I picked this game because Darius suggested it to me over Twitter. I remember the...
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Designing Horror: imscared
This post is part of the Designing Horror series. Game: imscared by Ivan Zanotti I’ve learned a few things about horror games while doing the Designing Horror series. I’ve learned that there are about...
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On Alan Wake
I spent most of my time with Alan Wake controlling Alan Wake and saying “Alan, wake up” in a silly voice under my breath. For some reason, I think that’s how the game should be played. Alan Wake in...
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On Kentucky Route Zero, Act 1
Warning: some vague spoilers about Kentucky Route Zero. This isn’t going to be long. I’m not going to address the comparisons to The Walking Dead that everyone is making (which I don’t understand at...
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I Have Launched A Kickstarter for A Scary Game
You might remember that last year I created a kickstarter where I basically just asked for $200 to make whatever the hell I wanted in game form. I set a release date, made fun of Kickstarter, and went...
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You Can Listen To Me Talk About Horror Games
A few weeks ago Tara Ogaick asked me if I wanted to do some kind of vlog or podcast or whatever about horror games, and after fumbling around for a few weeks we finally arranged schedules to get some...
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Shaviro’s Redux of The Cinematic Body
It’s rare for academics who work in the realm of critical theory, or poststructuralist theory, or other such things in the humanities, even to polemicize against cognitivism: either because they are...
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Fungal Growth
B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs #2 Filed under: Comics Tagged: bprd, comics, fungal, horror
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Released: Catachresis: A Way Too Scary Game
IT IS HERE You can play Catachresis here. I don’t have a lot to say about the game currently. I’m very proud of it, and if it doesn’t break in the middle (save often, be gentle!), then you should also...
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Designing Horror: 5 Days a Stranger
After a long pause, I’ve decided to start doing these Designing Horror posts again. This time I played Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw’s 5 Days a Stranger. The game is a basic point and click adventure game with...
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AMBER: Journeys Beyond
I played AMBER: Journeys Beyond on CDROM more than a decade ago and it was super strange and I never got very far. I did some research last week after a helpful bunch of people helped me figure out...
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Designing Horror: Ib
This post is part of the Designing Horror series. Game: Ib by Kouri Ib is a game about a young girl who goes to an art exhibition with her parents. The exhibition is a retrospective on an artist named...
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Send Me Your Contemporary Horror Recommendations!
This is just a quick post to ask you for some help! Recommend me some contemporary horror stories, preferably written and in the short story format. Anything that you like, from any subgenre. I want to...
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On The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo
There was a time when the specter of the uncle who worked at Nintendo haunted every recess period in the United States. I first heard him in the pickup spot where parents would pick up their kids after...
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On Evil Dead (2013)
The word of mouth that I heard about the remake / reboot of Evil Dead was that it fundamentally misunderstood the thing that made the Evil Dead trilogy so great in the first place: the comedy. There’s...
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On The Last Door: Season 2
I’ve been sitting on the second season of The Last Door for some time now, and I can’t really explain why. It was less an avoidance and more of a saving, like I wanted to make sure that I was in the...
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