ALooseGhost

That is to say, a lot of people know I love art but not many of them know how much I detest A.I

I never want to be an ungrateful person, but if I get anything A.I related for Christmas I'm throwing it on a fire

#Dispatch devs have no interest in using AI for game development 🎮

"AI feels like a production solution, not a creative one. Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative"

"Whatever we're building, it has to connect. It's got to be made by people. It's got to connect to people"

(via GIBiz)

Mm put more street lamps under big old trees so they look sick as fuck in the autumn

Going to respec into just the worst person imaginable
just no points in biting my tongue, no points in choosing the right moment, no points in tact or reading the room
Putting them all in being a hater

Good news, I'm no longer worried about the world ending in 2012

YouTube video by The Ace of None Fight VS. Flight: Which Makes Better Horror Games?

My good friend (forgot his name) did this fantastic and thoroughly researched video on combat vs non-combat horror games.

Give it a watch it's a nice chill and interesting time

youtu.be/V6C6aYTD95k?...

Alan Wake 2

YouTube video by Jeffiot The Story Behind This Perfectly Normal Photo

16. The Story Behind This Perfectly Normal Photo

And finally (doubled up today) this video is a great exploration into a classic creepy ghost image that has always fascinated me.
An extremely interesting exploration of the legacy of this photo and the importance of art.

youtu.be/4V44Ha1eZF8?...

People Still Live Here - YouTube

15. People Still Live Here

Kane Pixels proving it's not just the ridiculously well crafted CG environments that make his work great, he's also great at blending absurd horror with absurd comedy.

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Twitch Twitch is the world

I don't normally post go-live announcements but today is the annual HALLOWEEN STREAM! We're looking at ghost pictures and videos and having fun!

www.twitch.tv/kreamies

YouTube video by Douger Facts The Game That Killed Its Creator

14. The Game That Killed Its Creator

(It's online horror week, forgot to say)

This is a type of video essay that's cropped up recently that I really like and hope to see more of. I won't say what type that is, you'll just have to find out for yourself.

youtu.be/A0vK36iuHck?...

redredhat One day at a time. 📍

13. Redredhat

I really thought there was no more to squeeze out of Slenderman but Redredhat brilliantly takes our overfamiliar friend it turns it into a story about gender dysphoria.

This is a story clearly very personal to it's creator and that alone is worth a watch.

youtube.com/@redredhat0?...

The poster for the movie Southbound. It features roads on a stormy desert arranged to make a pentagram. Above the tagline reads "no matter which road you choose, it's all going south". The poster has a white border in right the film title is at on the bottom.

12. Southbound

An anthology of stories that loosely connect and give you a glimpse of some bigger, stranger world.
Like if you drove past Silent Hill and didn't have time to take it all in.

Great imagery, horrifying ideas, and the perfect ratio of mystery to explanation.

The poster for the movie Caveat. The background is completely black. On the left of the frame the film's name is written in thin white letters that look as though they've been scratched in. On the right of the frame is the head of what appears to be a taxidermied hare, or possibly a stuffed toy, only the top left of the head is visible, the rest is cut off by the edge of the frame. It looks up and at the viewer with one realistic eye.

11. Caveat

(I'm a bit behind on this week)

I'm a sucker for horror featuring a bizarre rule being imposed on the character/s.

There's a lot of creepy, unique imagery going on, then the 'caveat' is added into the mix creating an oppressive and fairly fresh experience.

The movie poster for In A Violent Nature. The movie title is small, overlayed on top of a figure wearing some kind of mask that covers their entire head, facing away from the viewer into a warm sunset behind a line of trees. He is holding two large meat hooks.

10. In A Violent Nature

A slasher film that takes its time. Long, long sequences following the killer walking the woods through calm scenery followed by some of the most ridiculous kills I've ever seen.

The sound design in this is absolutely incredible. You could almost watch it with no visuals.

Poster for The Ugly Stepsister. A woman with blue eyes and a gold contraption on her nose is partially obscured by a foot in a pink fancy heel and a ribbon around the ankle. The films name in Norwegian is at the bottom in bright pink. The poster is framed in an ornate pink decoration.

9. The Ugly Stepsister

Movies this week!

A cruel spin on a classic fairy tale. Cinderella from the perspective of the sisters, but with all the evils of the time period it's set in included.

I'm a sucker for an adaptation that flips the moral of the original.

Beware, body horror galore

The cover art for the game Detention. A high school student in grey scale on a white background that's filled with classroom furniture that seems to be falling. The student is clutching a portrait that has been smashed, the person in the portrait is unclear due to the breakage. The name of the game is on the right written in red text.

8. Detention

Set in Taiwan in the 1960s and utilizing the Silent Hill method of metaphorical horror.
Detention tells a horror story based around the history and culture of Taiwan.
Deeply uncomfortable and unsettling.

Cover art for the game Signalis. A feminine robotic humanoid with a black and red body and pale face stands with a gun in hand on a background with some organic looking substance off to the side. The game title is at the top with a complicated geometric symbol behind it.

7. Signalis

We're in a retro-style survival horror boom over the last few years and this is my favourite of the bunch.

Brilliant atmosphere wrapped around a strange, purposefully obtuse narrative. The strength of this game is the way it *feels* to be in this story.

The cover art for the game Luto. It is simply the word Luto in white capital letters on a black background, reading downwards instead of left to right

6. Luto

A spooky and clever experience hiding an intimate, emotional story.

Full of well thought out, interesting sequences that play around with the simple "haunted house horror game" format.

The smartest use of horror as a metaphor I've seen in ages. I'll need more characters to explain why.

YouTube video by A Loose Ghost How Silence Can Be Scary

Just in time for the spookiest month! Come and join me for a little while as I tell you about the idea of Sensory Deprivation Horror.
I'll start small, but stick with me and you'll see how far this goes.

youtu.be/e6b9W0nU4E4

How it feels to successfully pull off a scheme

The cover art for the game PROXIMATE. Bold red capital letters saying "PROXIMATE" that appear to be eroded around the edges on top of yellow-green pixelated x-rays of various heads, and some unrecognizable x-ray at the bottom right

5. PROXIMATE

Week two is game recommendations!

PROXIMATE puts you in a visor that obscures your vision completely and provides you with a computer that estimates what's in front of you and how far away it is.
This concept is thoroughly explored and terrifying.

(More about this from me soon)

The cover of The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson. It features a woman with long red hair and a colorful blouse, and bright red lipstick underneath a blue sky with a couple of birds. The woman is pictured from below, looking away from the viewer

4. Shirley Jackson

Way more famous than I'd normally cover, but less than half as famous as she deserves.
Jackson writes stories about the horror of plainly interacting with people. Stories that might not feel like horror at all, until you consider the context.
Most of them, simply conversations.

Yeah either it takes off and everyone's art gets stolen or it fails and Disney won't let anyone even utter the words Mickey Mouse without paying a license. We've got a real Alien V Predator here. (If I can say that without getting struck)

Man that sucks, it really feels like a losing battle as people slowly get used to it and eventually start using it

It's just that there's no reason for it, people have been making films for years without this shit, and either it's an inconsequential background image, in which case just grab something from a stock library or prop department, or it's an important detail, in which case fucking pay someone to do it!

Man, I've watched every installment of V/H/S from the beginning except for the newest one, on account of the AI used in one of the segments.
I know it's one image in one segment but I've got absolutely no tolerance for that.

The cover of the novel Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. It shows a childs toy rabbit from behind in a dark, empty background. The title and author name are written in large, bold, red text on a dark blue background.

3. Incidents Around the House

Written from the point of view of a child, this book uses ambiguity to force you to fit its strange, disconnected imagery together, giving you snippets of what's going on so you never know what's actually there in the darkness.

Above all else, this one is scary.

The book cover for Let Me In Your Window by Adam Ellis. It portrays a person cowering behind a boarded window, holding a knife. Through the window a giant, bloodshot, yellowed eye looks into the house.

2. Let Me In Your Window

Adam Ellis makes some of the best short horror comics out there. While he's fantastic at monsters, where he really stands out is simply in the characters expressions, both facial and body.

With shadows on a face Adam conveys believable fear, or something to be afraid of...