Judith Revisited

While resurrecting my blog, I was browsing through old posts, where I found my previous post about a little indie game called Judith. View the post here.

Recently, - as in, Valentine's Day - I posted a The Spookie Plays wherein I visited Judith. I suck at reading out lout. Enjoy.

TSP: SCP-087-B

The Spookie finds herself trapped at the top of a grim corridor, with only one option: descend.

SCP-087-B is an indie game, inspired by subject SCP-087 of the SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) Foundation. The SCP Foundation is a fictional wiki, allegedly housing a vast number of specimens that are potentially harmful to the world of the norm. 

SCP Foundation Wiki

The Spookie Plays Slender

Welcome to my first Let's Play ever. With only the recording equipment and my cat, I reembarked into the tenebrous forest of the Slenderman. My first attempt involved playing for about 5 minutes, and then promptly throwing the mouse/keyboard to a friend as soon as I caught a glimpse of Slendy.

This attempt went much better....

Judith

So, we all know by now that I'm a freak for old [style] games. Pixels get me all hot. *wiggling eyebrows*
Sorry, that was creepy, wasn't it? Well, if you're like me and get your kicks from old school graphics and unique ideas, you'll love this.
Moving on!
I have a "game" I'd like to share.

Judith

*Spoilers Below*

Judith isn't so much a game, as an interactive tale, something of a ghost story. The story is fairly simple, and the game play is very linear, but that doesn't take away from the atmosphere they created.

So, what's Judith about?

The story takes place in a spooky abandoned castle. We meet Jeff and Emily, secret lovers who sneak away to this place to be alone together. Jeff explains to Emily that the place is a safe place for them to rendezvous because the locals are superstitious about it. Emily runs in first to explore this uncharted and exciting territory. Running in after her, she appears to have.. disappeared.

You spend the game trying to find Emily, while exploring the house from two perspectives: Jeff and Judith.

Judith was the wife of a baron who once owned the manor, who soon discovers her husband has been hiding things from her - like bloody gold, an armoury of not-so-gently-used weapons and a prisoner!

From two different times, you search for the truth, with every door that Judith opens, it is unlocked for Jeff.

This game is unique, and I think it's wonderful. It's very short, but I love the music/sfx and atmosphere created in the game. No really, this game had me on edge the whole time! At least during Judith's parts.

I've played through this several times and I'll probably do it again.

You can download the game from Distractionware.

Or here. (11mb)

A Few Different Things

Ok, no more fake posting. :) There are a few things that I have to say today:

Chzo Mythos

From Trilby's Notes

If you don't know what this is, you are missing out. A series of point-and-click adventure games created in AGS. The man responsible? Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw. My hero. You might recognize this name for he is also responsible for Zero Punctuation. These have to be some of my absolute favourite games, I've played them soooooo many times.

A series of four survival horror adventures (in this order):
5 Days A Stranger: a cat-burglar breaks into a recently-abandoned mansion only to find he cannot leave.
7 Days A Skeptic: a crew of cosmonauts begin experiencing strange things after they take aboard a metal box.
6 Days A Sacrifice: a city inspector finds himself injured and trapped in the basement of a powerful cult building.
Trilby's Notes: survivors of 5DaS continue to be haunted by bizarre phenomenon.

Seriously, I really can't think of a point-and-click adventure that can top any of these, commercial or amateur, except for Beneath a Steel Sky, but even they sit differently on the spectrum. Where the Chzo Mythos is a survival horror series, Beneath a Steel Sky is a science-fiction game.
All of these games can be found at Abandonia, along with a ton of old DOS games. (Cause I'm old school.)

Yahtzee, you rock.


The Fear of Darkness

From the website, of the alleged "round rock"

Earlier I posted a link to a page about a spooky cave. Seriously, the story scared the poop outta me. And through about the first half of the "blog," I realized that I wasn't reading a blog, but a story. It couldn't have been real, I thought! That's really creepy. Night-light kinda creepy. So I went looking around the internet, and found a few forum posts about it from a long time ago. I must have missed the memo. Either way they directed me to a story, The Fear of Darkness by Thomas Lera.

I was really relieved to see that the website was a hoax. (T_T) I was really worried for a second. I read the story and it goes further past the the "blog" to describe what the horror actually was. The story was altered slightly. Something I really liked about the website was that it added photos. Where they photos originated is beyond me.

When I posted the website, Ted the Caver, I was aware of the hoax and original story, but I wanted it to be read like I read it, with the assumption that this could actually have happened. The truth factor makes it much more frightening.


//spookie//