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A Not So Spooky Blips Episode (Draft?)
🕑 Added 2020-10-01 04:27:09 +0000 UTCHey all!
Long time no see! I'm back! And while we're not quite kicking off Halloween season with the spookies and the scaries just yet, I figured now would be a good time to do a small Blips episode that highlights some not-so-scary but maybe... vaguely spooky adjacent games? None of these games are horror titles proper, but they're all kind of just next door to scary or disquieting stuff. Enjoy!
I'm also trying to force myself to cover some bigger titles this time around. Nothing major, but I realized part of the wall I was hitting with Blips was looking for great games that had like, under 1,000-2,000 Steam reviews. And there are plenty of gems in that category, believe me! But I realized how even a game with a few thousand sales can be struggling for visibility after comparing Post Void's review count (~1,200 reviews) with the recent smash hit Among Us (154,189 reviews). Suddenly Post Void didn't look like a well-known hit that it felt like when I was debating whether to cover it. And realizing that I had a pretty sizeable audience, well, I figured there's gotta be some people out there for whom it clicks that wouldn't have heard about it otherwise. It's not like I'm covering Risk of Rain 2 or Spelunky 2 or whatever. Besides, the less time I spend agonizing whether a cool game warrants coverage the more time I have to cover more stuff.
Anyways! On to Halloween, which I think will mostly be a few shorter episodes every other week or so instead of a giant thing at the very end like this was. I've got a few spooky games planned, so stay tuned!
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Good ep. I was just watching the spoiler warning for Vampyr where you make fun of the "Humans are the virus, nature is healing" dude and I know you don't mean that, but couldn't help think of it when you talked about Cloud Gardens.
Theo Gerome
Another great blips, and excited for Halloween eps! Spooky-Spelunky sounds like a vibe I might need for this month. Side note, did you play Lenna’s Inception from earlier this year at all? I got around to it this past month, and feel like it might be the type of thing you like, and might fit for this series?
Zachary Fine
Great video! I always look forward to your spooktober episodes.
Talen Lee
The 'collect all the endings' is something I've seen used/referred to as a type of Hypertext - where the text is transformed by the text itself.
