So, I've been absent for a few days. I'm still alive, as you can see by the ever-changing layout of the blog. I'm just testing different things. I've gotten a few new ideas, which I am working on. Just getting my bats in a row. :)
//the busy spookie//
Randomness including weird news, indie games, movies, stories and projects!
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Micro Fiction & The World's Shortest Horror Story
Micro fiction is great, especially for people like me with excessive ADD. It's short, sweet (or not?), and to the point, usually no more than a couple hundred words, sometimes as short as ten.. It's particularly awesome for horror stories, in my opinion. Nothing is more scary than unanswered questions, the unknown. Micro fiction offers nothing more than a glimpse, the past is vague and the future is completely unknown. It leaves most of the storytelling up to the reader's imagination. An amazing example of micro-horror is as follows:
The World's Shortest Horror Story by Anonymous
The last man on Earth sat alone in the room. There was a knock at the door.
I've written micro-horror and will be posting old and new ones.
One great place to find micro-horror is Micro Horror.
Expect short stories shortly. :)
//spookwriting//
Borrowed randomly from Google Images.
The last man on Earth sat alone in the room. There was a knock at the door.
I've written micro-horror and will be posting old and new ones.
One great place to find micro-horror is Micro Horror.
Expect short stories shortly. :)
//spookwriting//
Friday, April 22, 2011
A Few Different Things
Ok, no more fake posting. :) There are a few things that I have to say today:
Chzo Mythos
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
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//
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//
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Don't Judge Me.
I'm obsessed.
It needs some work. But it was a quick sketch.
//spookie got a letter today//
Monday, April 18, 2011
Angst.
I've been emersing myself in the world of Silent Hill for the past several days. Call it an obsession if you must. I call it a passion. However, I have one thing to say...
Silent Hill 1-4 are brilliant and beautiful.
However, I cannot get past....
Silent Hill: Origins/Homecoming/Shattered Memories, Silent Hill: The Movie, and Silent Hill: The Comics.
I hate you.
Thank you for ruining something I loved.
This is what I look like right about now:
Silent Hill 1-4 are brilliant and beautiful.
However, I cannot get past....
Silent Hill: Origins/Homecoming/Shattered Memories, Silent Hill: The Movie, and Silent Hill: The Comics.
I hate you.
Thank you for ruining something I loved.
This is what I look like right about now:
I am disgusting, useless, please let me die.
Dear Climax (Origins/Shattered Memories),
Keep your dirty hands out of my beautiful town.
Alessa is NOT evil, and never was.
I hate you.
Dear FREAKS-WHO-MADE-HOMECOMING,
Stay away from Silent Hill.
Dear Sam Barlow (Writer: Origins/Shattered Memories)
You know nothing about Silent Hill.
//angryspookie//
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