final reminder π«‘
come check out me and a special build of @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social at @wonderville.nycβs 666 anniversary party. Itll be tons of fun :)
@darkwebstreamer.bsky.social
β§ psychological horror streamer simulation RPG :: award winning :: procedurally generated narrative roguelite :: β§ πΎ WISHLIST NOW: https://tinyurl.com/wishDWS ποΈβπ¨οΈ http://discord.gg/hmdCJ46GYw π³οΈ www.darkwebSTREAMER.com βοΈ chantal@whalitf.com
final reminder π«‘
come check out me and a special build of @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social at @wonderville.nycβs 666 anniversary party. Itll be tons of fun :)
i've spent the last four years making a video game about the old internet and the ghosts of modernity that haunt it.
it uses handmade procedural generation techniques to create a randomised simulated internet + NPCs[ghosts]
πΎcheck it out + wishlist on steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/2151810/...
a photo of a laptop displaying the game darkwebSTREAMER. the words "my blog" are visible as well as a black and white bison skull. there is strange stuff in the background, including multiple lit up skulls, tarot cards and candles
tell me a memory about darkwebSTREAMER
17.05.2025 02:59 β π 28 π 2 π¬ 3 π 1screenshot of darkwebSTREAMER, horror looking desktop simulation
sup new friends
do you like weird shit on the internet? of course you do. go check out darkwebSTREAMER, my psychological horror RPG streaming simulation game
it's 100% procedurally generated, inc the world's first generated infinite internet. fully simulated NPCs. infinite stories
wishlist belowβ οΈ
white on black text: "you had a strange dream last night. you were sailing on a oat with a teeny hypercritical flamingo. it made you feel weird"
just a dream i had in darkwebSTREAMER
@darkwebstreamer.bsky.social
*whispers* talkin horror, talkin darkwebSTREAMER
19.04.2025 07:56 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0when the writer is the boss and controls where all the money goes and is also possibly the world's biggest nerd
WELL
BATSHIT COOL NARRATIVE TOOLS IS WHAT YOU GET
i need you to understand that our narrative tools over at darkwebSTREAMER are crazy π€ͺ
18.04.2025 18:34 β π 26 π 2 π¬ 3 π 1The general shape of most of my favorite art is, "Someone put in WAY MORE effort to make this VERY SPECIFIC THING, more than anyone else would have bothered to."
15.04.2025 15:23 β π 91 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0VHS style screen black background with white arial text that says "You slink cautiously into the master bath. You find your watercolour painting of a fish with bleeding eyes lying face down on the floor."
just darkwebSTREAMER things
#gamedev #games #indiedev #dev #horrorgame #proceduralgeneration #procgen #horror #horrorgames #indiegame
π darkwebSTREAMER's lurking the SUGOI Showcase π
come watch, it's live now!
@darkwebstreamer.bsky.social x @sugoigames.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cud7...
screenshot of darkwebSTREAMER's fake web browser, showing a page with a coloured saturated anime wallpaper image feat a girl playing a guitar, and some descriptive text "about the webpage owner" heading: youβll pay for this, captain planet!
do you think we should add a colour option to darkwebSTREAMER's procedurally generated internet? ποΈβπ¨οΈ
#gamedev #indiegame #games #indiedev #indiegames #horrorgame #web #geocities #horrorgames #horror
*whispers* we're working on webrings now
11.03.2025 19:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0black background with white text: *smiles excitedly* *** i truly love my dick
darkwebSTREAMER NPCs getting a little rowdy up in here
@darkwebstreamer.bsky.social
white text on black: "my life has grown into a depressing home"
this @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social webpage text generator has started putting out pure poetry
02.03.2025 03:09 β π 54 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0come watch this week's darkwebSTREAMER developer livestream π
it will be good and not full of curses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef5X...
π« the darkwebSTREAMER dev log stream is finished but you can access the VOD here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgC5...
today we talked about
- how to generate an infinite internet
- unique approaches to NPCs + language/narrative generation
- PHILOSOPHY
- lots more!
#gamedev #games #indiedev #horrorgame
one time someone submitted @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social as a new Wikipedia entry & i got to go & read a heated discussion about whether the game was or wasnt culturally relevant enough to deserve a wiki article
the article *was* approved in the end so, yo, culturally + historically relevant, baby π
WATCH OUR LATEST DEV LOG:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ff...
- in-depth looks at the inquiry + tag systems + how they influence emergent narrative
- unique deaths & endings
- the darkwebSTREAMER community creating an in-game internet
- a virtual tour of old-style Neocities websites
& more!
#games
WATCH OUR LATEST DEV LOG:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ff...
- in-depth looks at the inquiry + tag systems + how they influence emergent narrative
- unique deaths & endings
- the darkwebSTREAMER community creating an in-game internet
- a virtual tour of old-style Neocities websites
& more!
#games
the best way!!
13.02.2025 05:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A big, juicy, cult-y preview I wrote on @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social for @debugmag.com ! π
Do yourself a favor and grab Debug #8 and follow @thoughtrise.bsky.social to be always up to date on darkwebSTREAMER's news
image of magazine page saying THANKS FOR THE DONO and featuring an image of darkwebSTREAMER's key art of a close up of freaky black and white pixel art eyes
check out this feature on darkwebSTREAMER, as well as an interview with me, in @debugmag.com's latest issue!
the whole issue is great and i'm not just saying that cuz i'm in it. super interesting features.
thanks to @ignasvieversys.bsky.social for the writeup!
#gamedev #indiedev #games #horror
we weren't there this year! working hard on nightmares and curses β¨π
12.02.2025 14:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I'll be waiting impatiently for sure!
Seriously though, after playing this at Magfest, I can tell you that it's worth the wait!
noooo
did you buy an inhaler? π
caucasian person with blonde hair, round glasses and a spooky t shirt taking a selfie with a skull.
Come catch Beebo and I tonite @igdanyc.bsky.social βs Game-A-Polooza! Weβll be repping the @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social team with a few set ups of the game π pull up guys, gals & ghouls.
04.02.2025 16:31 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0so good actually π₯Ή
06.02.2025 00:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0dirty
slow
bass
β a musical experiment made in 1 day
inspired by @darkwebstreamer.bsky.social
I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons www.platformer.news/google-ai-pr...
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