{"id":28146,"date":"2015-08-12T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28146"},"modified":"2023-12-16T13:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T18:13:26","slug":"spookys-house-of-jump-scares-episode-1-the-boring-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28146","title":{"rendered":"Spooky&#8217;s House of Jump Scares Episode 1: The Boring Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: The following video contains images that may cause extreme terror in some viewers that are Campster.<\/p>\n<p>Campster discretion is advised.<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/36WKwlqZY2w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=36WKwlqZY2w'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>We needed a a couple of silly one-off episodes before we start the n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic\">e<\/a>xt season of Spoiler Warning, which is still a secret that I can&#8217;t tell you and you will never figure out so you probably shouldn&#8217;t bother trying.<\/p>\n<p>I want to stress that this is a free game, and I&#8217;m not even sure why or how it was made. It&#8217;s very likely that all of the seemingly dumb and goofy things here were done on purpose. The title screen makes it pretty clear this thing isn&#8217;t trying to be Amnesia. So while we&#8217;re laughing at the game in confusion, please don&#8217;t mistake this for some sort of mocking &#8220;CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW LAME THIS INDIE GAME IS?&#8221; shtick. These are just our honest gut reactions to unexpected content in an unknown game.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Talking to my daughter Esther confirms my suspicions that this game was designed to exploit, mock, or comment on the fad of &#8220;Scream Streams&#8221; where people play through jump-scare games and over-react for the audience. <em>Five Nights at Freddie&#8217;s<\/em> is the most notable example of the genre. A game that&#8217;s made for streamers instead of the masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning: The following video contains images that may cause extreme terror in some viewers that are Campster. Campster discretion is advised. Link (YouTube) We needed a a couple of silly one-off episodes before we start the next season of Spoiler Warning, which is still a secret that I can&#8217;t tell you and you will never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56848,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions\/56848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}