The Drake Incident: A Dark Souls Story

Ding dong, the Bell Gargoyles are dead. I ring the bell. Where next for my lonely undead hero...?

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HOW IT WAS MADE

If you're interested in how the film came into being, which is partly through luck and partly through bloody-minded determination, here's How I Made: The Drake Incident.

FEATURED GAMES

• Dark Souls, From Software
• Temple of Apshai Trilogy, Epyx

FOOTAGE

• 1970s Cinema Intermission Intro
• Intermission Time
• Home Alone (audio of scream)
• Odeon adverts and trailer package
• Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!
• WarGames
• No Country For Old Men
• Kill Bill Vol. 1

MUSIC

• Motoi Sakuraba "Firelink Shrine" (Dark Souls)
• Motoi Sakuraba "Bell Gargoyles" (Dark Souls)
• Kokenn "Without"
• Quantic "Common Knowledge"
• Vladimir Platine "Destiny"
• Motoi Sakuraba "Centipede Demon" (Dark Souls)
• Motoi Sakuraba "Dark Sun Gwyndolin" (Dark Souls)
• scntfc "Lost (Prologue)" (Oxenfree OST)
• Robin Trower "Bridge of Sighs"

What I Really Thought About The Witness

Hidden inside The Unbearable Now was access to a secret video. After three weeks, I decided to make the video public for everyone. Here it is, twenty random observations about The Witness (Thelka, 2016) which had no home in The Unbearable Now.

There be much spoilers for The Witness from the very beginning; the focus is more on puzzle mechanics.

Also here’s the audience retention graph for The Unbearable Now! Click the image for a larger version.

The red band indicates the twenty second challenge. I was pleased to discover that the audience who hung on this far stayed for the ride and did not let me down. The green circle seems to be interest in Sokobond, but I can’t be sure. The spike at the end is clearly a lot of viewers trying to solve the mystery of the secret video.

Into The Black: The Movie

How do videogames undermine those players who enjoy exploring virtual worlds? Here is the fourth Electron Dance film, a hybrid of Into the Black and Chekhov's Collectible.

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FEATURED GAMES

• Obsolete, Orihaus
• Proteus, Key & Kanaga
• Flight Simulator II, subLOGIC
• GTA III, Rockstar Games
• Fuel, Codemasters
• Dear Esther, The Chinese Room
• TRIHAYWBFRFYH, Connor Sherlock
• TIMEframe, Random Seed Games
• Secret Habitat, Strangethink
• Bernband, Tom van den Boogaart
• Aeon, Orihaus
• Lumière, Orihaus
• Césure, Orihaus
• Xaxi, Orihaus

FOOTAGE

• Scuba bubbles
• Landing at Meigs Airport in a Piper Archer II
• Banksy takes over Springfield

MUSIC

• Jerry Goldsmith "The Cloud" (Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack)
• Rémy Bourgeois (prev. Aaren Reale) "Bal de Nuit"
• Max Richter "Maria"
• Andrew Hewitt "The Double Theme (Version 2)" (The Double OST)
• Andrew Hewitt "A Boy Held Up By String" (The Double OST)
• Jerry Goldsmith "Ilia's Theme" (Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack)
• Max Richter "November"

Bioshock Infinite Is The Worst Game Of The Year

The original script for this video essay was written in January 2014 and then I spent a mere 18 months thinking about making it. Two years after Bioshock Infinite (Irrational Games, 2013) was released to huge critical acclaim, I finally have a video about it. If you love the game, you're going to hate me. If you hate the game, you're going to have a laugh.

Oh the hyperbole. Not just a bad game. The worst game. Maybe he meant the worst out of those games that get called “game of the year”? That would have been okay. But I can’t think he really meant worst compared to all the crappy clones that are foisted on mobile users every month.

Watch this video below or direct on YouTube.

REFERENCES

"On Videogame Reviews" by Tevis Thompson

"Stanley Scores Reviews" by Joel Goodwin

Video Transcript

Counterweight podcast where Eric and I trashed Bioshock Infinite.

MUSIC

Adrián Berenguer "Iaia"

Tipsy "Tuatara (Remix)"

Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra "Educating Stanley"

Jurassic Park Theme (slowed down 1000%)