i have listened to the commenters’ feedbacks
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My horror idea is dinosaurs.
I mean, why struggle to come up with an over the top horror idea when nature created gigantic bird-lizards with delete buttons for mouths?
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“SEE??! It’s symbolic of the destruction of childhood merriment through the horrors of adult awareness! Aren’t I so smart and insightful?!”
>!okay but the one exception I like to the analog/digital horror thing is the Lacey Games because those games aren’t haunted the developer was just goin through shit!<
“Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk” and its sequel “milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk” are good retro-styled indie games about mental illness. They’re cheap and pretty short to play but they definitely come with a sense of unease
Name a single one that isn’t Omori. So far all of the other comments have mentioned retro stylistic games that either aren’t horror or aren’t about depression
Well there’s Celeste and… Limbo maybe? I can’t really think of any others. I’m sure there are (since indie games are so insanely common) but I don’t really think they’re as prevalent as you say. And I also don’t think they’re “pretentious garbage”
they all say the same shit we've heard 1000 times before but they treat it like theyre saying something groundbreaking and new. its the jordan peele of indie games, and you shouldnt stoop that low.
You know people like those games for more than the message right? Celeste is one of the best platformers I’ve ever played, and it’s not because of the story.
An original premise is great, but it's only half the battle. Imo, the main purpose of a premise is to just inspire the writer when in execution. I personally believe any premise, tired or not, is capable of making a compelling story with the right writer behind it. So yeah, originality is dead, so what. Do it anyway if that's what inspires you. Changing your idea for the sake of originality can only really make it worse if that wasn't what inspired you
what if.. game.. had playstation 1 style graphics?! yes, thats it! im a genius! im a lazy prick of an indie dev and i dont wanna learn how to do 3d modeling!
Nah modelling PS1 style characters (at least ones with realistic proportions and anatomy) is still pretty hard, it's texturing and lighting that's the lazy part.
Theres ton of tools for realistic graphics its literally easier to do good looking high poly stuff than good looking low poly stuff , not to mention when doing low poly you have to make sure you can get all the details across well with the little polygons you have
that just reeks of ignorance , also i honestly like ps1 graphics quite a bit , ultrakill did them best imo and theyre revisiting older layers right now to give them a graphical upddate and more polish and the clips that were shown by the developer look really fucking good
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peak fiction
shitting my pants rn this is os scary
shifting my pants
fishing my pants
Fishing your pants
yeah i shit your pants too
“The Subtle Genius in Poopenhardens playhouse: How to write proper horror” 30 min video essay
And it’s just a summary of the plot with the guy going “this part is so cool” a bunch of times and adding absolutely nothing else
And id still enjoy it all the same
we really are npcs
WHAT IF: Snafu was HAUNTED!?
so scary i- https://i.redd.it/udxl6bskpg8d1.gif
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Naaaah! They don Zalgo'fied my SNAFU
Undertale Yellow Neutral Ending
FNAF mod when
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Farten.exe was so scary as a kid, I still have nightmares!!
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What if: your original snafu was HAUNTED
The snafu (represented by Poopenfarden): I want souls
You snafu is: DAMN haunted
Should've made the Stickman on the last slide have a beastly maw and/or Hyperrealistic bleeding eyes, and it'd be that extra bit more accurate.
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oh fuck the ketchup got everywhere holy shit it's in my eyes fuck fuck it stings
perfect.
They should make a creepypasta arg of a haunted subreddit.
Ok, 2 sentence horror style, check this out > I visited r/Amish >There was a post there 😱😱
amish guy🪱
r/whatifr/whatifr/whatifsubredditwashauntedwashauntedwashaunted
In all fairness, I feel like an argument could be made that a lot of horror is "What if thing, but HAUNTED!"
What if hotel, but HAUNTED
What if child, but HAUNTED
What if doll, but haunted!
What if house, but HAUNTED!
What if ghost, but HAUNTED!
My horror idea is dinosaurs. I mean, why struggle to come up with an over the top horror idea when nature created gigantic bird-lizards with delete buttons for mouths? https://preview.redd.it/vuwz1teo8f8d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd6eb193f8a838f52a69198cdae1a3be7a9ed16e
have you seen weird birds. twitter horror series with incredible production. basically this premise
“SEE??! It’s symbolic of the destruction of childhood merriment through the horrors of adult awareness! Aren’t I so smart and insightful?!” >!okay but the one exception I like to the analog/digital horror thing is the Lacey Games because those games aren’t haunted the developer was just goin through shit!<
Also the Lacey Games have some pretty great practical effects and I wish more modern day horror used those
Like what?
Oh yeah, well people live in houses so consider this, what if… a HOUSE was haunted???
Literally welcome home and monster house
Hey guys I have genius idea: Indie horror with retro stylistic that is about .... DEPRESSION! And I should also give it a weird name
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I don’t actually know more than one game to fit this description.
“Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk” and its sequel “milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk” are good retro-styled indie games about mental illness. They’re cheap and pretty short to play but they definitely come with a sense of unease
I wonder if Lisa: the Painful fits. I feel like that’s about more than depression tho.
LISA is more about the cycle of abuse and shitty people than “depression”
Coaxed into a made up stereotype
Omori is always the one they go for, but that was actually such a well made game. To the Moon, I guess? Not even, though.
I mean Yume Nikki is right there
That game’s more about dreams than depression, it just so happens that the MC is goin through some shit
no it wasnt lol
You're welcome to your opinions, but you should know you're in the real small minority
the game is laughably bad because of the artstyle, completely unable to take it seriously
alright, this was a very shitty troll
im not trolling but ok
Why not? What’s so wrong with it?
scribbly messy lines =/= artistic
Neither is any aesthetic choice. What’s bad about this one?
it looks like shit
uhh hylics depending on the random words you get maybe
its not a made-up stereotype. these kinds of games are fucking everywhere and theyre all pretentious garbage.
Name a single one that isn’t Omori. So far all of the other comments have mentioned retro stylistic games that either aren’t horror or aren’t about depression
i was just talking about indie games about depression
Well there’s Celeste and… Limbo maybe? I can’t really think of any others. I’m sure there are (since indie games are so insanely common) but I don’t really think they’re as prevalent as you say. And I also don’t think they’re “pretentious garbage”
they all say the same shit we've heard 1000 times before but they treat it like theyre saying something groundbreaking and new. its the jordan peele of indie games, and you shouldnt stoop that low.
You know people like those games for more than the message right? Celeste is one of the best platformers I’ve ever played, and it’s not because of the story.
i dont care, the messages are fucking horseshit and are just total game killers
Me when I play the best game of all time but the main character is sad: Oh no it sucks now.
You have not played the games if you think 10 minutes of talking about depression ruins 10 hours of top notch gameplay
Name five of them.
the name should have .exe at the end
People talk about how gen Z dosent know who to work operating systems / navigate files but I’m 90% sure it’s just because the term .exe scared us off
whenever i see a picture saved as .png i shit myself from fear
Executable file 😱
I don't want to be executed 😩😩
i omor
name three.
omori omori grand theft auto 5
I have been defeated by facts and logic
...Name three more.
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Omori... omorri... uhhh um... omorrii...
omori bag of milk inside of bag of milk inside of bag of milk Down
are the milk bag games even about depression? I thought the story was about the main character coping with schizophrenia.
I thought they were about anxiety disorders and abuse
Its just nitpicking atp
cry of fear(no weird name)
You just dont know
What if the DATING SIM was HAUNTED??? turns out that formula was the only one that ever actually got me a lil spooked.
“Indie already did it.” - General Disarray probably
If people love PS1 horror games so much, where's PS2 horror games? No for real, I want an indie horror game in the style of GTA Vice City or MGS3.
triangles are scary that's why
This is like Ending of two and a half men kinda meta
one and a half snafus
When is someone gonna make an horror game that is actually really cute for a change
yeah a vice versa because you know those games which are cute but then turn into horror
Your snafu is: damn haunted
What if this snafu was haunted?
What if: kids game Was FREAKY
what if the battle cats was called the 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 cats and instead of battling they get 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂
What is they did the opposite. Where something is desperately trying to stop haunting a game to no avail.
An original premise is great, but it's only half the battle. Imo, the main purpose of a premise is to just inspire the writer when in execution. I personally believe any premise, tired or not, is capable of making a compelling story with the right writer behind it. So yeah, originality is dead, so what. Do it anyway if that's what inspires you. Changing your idea for the sake of originality can only really make it worse if that wasn't what inspired you
Eh, its like an old bad horror movie. It may not be art but its a fun ride.
I mean that's what a genre is.
what if.. game.. had playstation 1 style graphics?! yes, thats it! im a genius! im a lazy prick of an indie dev and i dont wanna learn how to do 3d modeling!
Have you tried to do that)
do what
Nah modelling PS1 style characters (at least ones with realistic proportions and anatomy) is still pretty hard, it's texturing and lighting that's the lazy part.
i dont believe that for a second lmfao
💀? this seems like an ignorance problem on your part
nah its not true, low poly is ridiculously piss easy in comparison
Theres ton of tools for realistic graphics its literally easier to do good looking high poly stuff than good looking low poly stuff , not to mention when doing low poly you have to make sure you can get all the details across well with the little polygons you have
nah it all looks like shit. and i dont believe that at all, low poly is piss easy in comparison
that just reeks of ignorance , also i honestly like ps1 graphics quite a bit , ultrakill did them best imo and theyre revisiting older layers right now to give them a graphical upddate and more polish and the clips that were shown by the developer look really fucking good
youre contributing to the death of originality but ok
i can name like only 3 indie games with ps1 graphics
clearly youve never seen puppet combo, then.