#MrKravin

[cat-soap-opera]

anyways, if ur interested in getting more into horror games (especially indie stuff) but cant play them yourself or just dont know where to start, i highly recommend john wolfe and mrkravin for lets plays of em. theyre calm, funny, and dont ruin the games atmosphere with constant screaming. theyre both very critical of the usage of mental illness and sensitive topics for shock value in horror too.

#mod posts #not to be a shill but ghghhg #and an obligatory 'mrkravin is gay and handsome as hell' #also john is very good at figuring out game mechanics n playing hard games #so if ur easily frustrated by streamers skipping tutorials n not knowing what to do #hes ur guy

[owainigo]

any youtuber rec??

I've been watching a lot of emma in the moment because i dont know anything about crocheting/anything similar so i find drama about it fascinating

mrkravin is my favourite horror game youtuber because he plays a lot of indie games and i've been watching him since i was in like highschool, i found out about some cool games through him. he also doesnt scream or yell which is why i started watching him in the first place

and then i think a lot of people on tumblr already watch him but jacob geller. his video on modern art is my favourite video essay ever and made me change a lot of what i think about modern art

#anon

[yourbuddy1984]

Hello hello :) Just wanted to drop in and ask; I've been thinking abt watching someone play Buddy Simulator but my usual go to for indie horror games on YouTube hasn't played it. Do you have any recommendations for guys to watch? Ty :>

im happy to hear buddy sims sparked your interest!! i'm sorry to say i've never watched a buddy sim letsplay, i've only ever played it myself. maybe some of my followers have though, so i'm turning this question to them!!! my psionic warriors, help zyremida!!!! aid it!!! help zyremida dot com Now!!!!

if you're having trouble finding letsplays for buddy sim as a whole, here's one by mashe99, each video (many of them) is about 15-20 minutes long. another one i found is by RUIN, who has less videos in their letspay, that vary from 30-60 minutes. they also have a cover of one of the songs from the ost, so im willing to bet they felt Something about the game!! another one - though, its more of a playthrough? theres 2 videos and theyre both an hour long, is by gab smolders. this is the one i'm most familiar with, though only in the way that i've seen their thumbnails a few times lol. i've never actually watched the videos, but this is the one i'd rec most i guess? not for any solid reason though. there's also other playlists i saw out there (jesse cox) (mrkravin) (cadplays) (joystickjams) but those first 3 are the first that stood out to me as something i'd watch. i also cannot promise that any of these people have played all of the game. they may have gotten an ending and never played it again (there's 4 endings).. but if the game interests you enough after seeing an ending, you could watch somebody else get another ending..? there's also walkthroughs without commentary (1) (2) (walkthroughs for all the endings), and what's a walkthrough but a silent playthrough....

i also know that markiplier and call me kevin (dont think i have to link those) played the game - i know marikiplier didnt finish his (for this he will never see the lights of heaven (joking)) .. and .. i am unsure about kevin? he has three (i think?) videos on it, and one of the titles references a lategame thing, so i'm assuming he got at least near the end. i'm also assuming he got the 3rd ending if i remember who he is correctly (the guy that aims to get the worst endings in games, i think???? or is that somebody else...)

i am also legally obligated to say that buddy sim will have a different effect on you depending on if you watch it or play it, i think, as buddy wouldnt be Your friend, but some other guys - but i also understand that the game might not be avalible to you, it might be too much for you (understandable), you're not certain whether it'd be worth the money (if it's this, i recommend watching this 10 minute long spoiler free video on it - i recommend watching it either way, really!! i watched it today and i like it), or any other infinitely more nuanced thing. and all of those are ok!!! i just had to tell you or the curse would get me

#ask #sorry i cant be of more help 💔💔💔 #AND SORRY FOR THE LONG RESPONSE 💔💔💔my treacherous mind knows not where to stop #goddd i promise i tried to keep it short but then i thought “oh what if i find it some letsplays in case it cant find any?:)” #and then “oh right markiplier did one - and that ”buddy sim evolves“ thing too! oh this would be a good place to tell it that theseletsplay #might not be finished.. i should put that at the start too. oh and i cant not link the ghost trapped in the machine!! id be doing it a #disservice. and also a warning that the viewing experience will differ from the gaming. oh god oh fuck what is all this text on my screen" #if you have any questions. you know where to find me... the bloggerrr

[abalonetea]

hi there! If it isn’t weird or too much of a bother, I saw your reply on a post mentioning how marble hornets fundamentally changed the horror genre, and now I’m super interested. could you share more about that?

nnnnn this isn't weird or a bother, it's one of my absolute favorite topics to discuss! people don't discuss it much, or at least not in the circles that i tend to roam, but it truly changed the horror genre on a multi-platform level.

so! some basic information. YouTube was launched in 2005. four years later, the first video in what would become known as the Marble Hornets series was posted. right now, ARGs (alternate reality style YouTube series filmed as though they are 'real life') are super common, and the Slenderman phase had come and gone; and the indie horror game market is booming!

but when Marble Hornets first came out, only lonelygirl15 was on-going and making an impact. even then, it was only known in very select circles. Slenderman was only discussed on select Reddit threads, and had no solid popularity attached to it yet. and indie horror games were few and far between.

So, it was one of the first of its kind - and the first to truly make any known waves. by the time that the second 'season' came out, even people outside of the main horror circles had heard about it! there was so much discussion at the start as to whether or not it was real, and it hit a level of popularity that no other YouTube series had managed to reach.

the first 26 episodes were made with only $500, Adobe Premier, and Sony Vegas Pro. it was featured as one of the top ten horror fan films in Dread Central, and even got positive reviews from Robert Egbert! but this isn't about the acclaim around the series itself, which is its own separate post.

this is about THE RIPPLE EFFECT.

the ripple effect can be boiled down to several points

*ARGs

*indie horror games

*the slenderman mythos

*horror films

first, the obvious. Marble Hornet's showed people what you could do with a small budget and the still very recent addition of YouTube online. Keep in mind, it had only been about four years since YouTube launched and people were still finding new ways to make use of it. Marble Hornets showed other indie artists what the medium could be used for - and inspired a massive swath of horror ARGs such as tribeONE and everymanHYBRID which took the universe that Marble Hornets created and built off of it.

There were dozens of these. A lot of them fell apart fast, but others ended up being almost as good as their original inspiration!

and then people started to get creative! Daisy Brown, Petscop, Jack Torrence, POSTcontent, and countless others - and they were shown this medium through Marble Hornets series and subsequent success.

next up is the mythos itself.

Up until now, Slenderman had just been a vague concept on the Something Awful forums. Marble Hornet is the series that popularized an actual concept around it, providing the monster in question with the alternate reality base that has since become mostly accepted cannon. it very literally created the larger idea behind the Slenderman mythos - which leads directly into -

the truly massive amount of Slenderman indie horror games that came out en masse right after Marble Hornets became popular! and this was huge! many of the big name indie game developers we see on market today got their start making Slenderman games. it also, same as Five Nights At Freddy's, introduced a new method of gameplay that took the indie gaming community by storm.

suddenly, everyone was not only making a Slenderman game, but they were trying to one up each other, leading to a rapid increase in the capabilities of indie horror game developers, as well as a boom in the market itself. those who did Let's Plays at the time (i'll give a shout out to my favorites, John Wolfe and MrKravin) suddenly had a surplus of short horror games available to them!

and then there's the media sensation! not only did it manage to get its own movie, but it created a very specific genre of movie that took off rapid fire. Butterfly Kisses and Char Man fit into this genre, as examples.

it also took what was a seldom used concept at the time, the disruption of the camera and the audio/video distortions, and introduced techniques that had not been brought into the mainstream viewing.

it was also one of the first YouTube horror phenomena to break containment; a creation that started as a $500 project and rippled out into a genre defining, Slenderman mythos creating, technique inspiring series that to this day can still be seen as the influence in popular games and movies.

it heralded in the creation of so many new projects, inspired a new genre of horror, and reinvigorated an otherwise stagnant game market.

how cool is that?

#marble hornets

[askroahmmythril]

Man, all these controversies from various creators, particularly YouTube has left me quite depressed even if I didn't actually follow their work. Promise me you'll never have a scandal to your name, at least not a truthful one.

Do you know of anybody I could watch to fill the void of Chuggaaconroy's absence? Much of everyone I've found is blind or a streamer which make their videos too long for my liking.

In other inquiries, did you have a good Easter?

Yeaaaaaah, seems like there's been a lot of that going around. Sad to see, that.

As far as someone other than Chuggaa, admittedly, I usually only saw him via TRG, I didn't really watch much in the way of his solo work, so I'm not quite sure what the best comparison could be there for finding someone with I guess a similar enough vibe or what have you. I feel like right now, some of my most commonly watched are a couple of horror gamers, MrKravin and ManlyBadassHero, there's also a speedrunner I enjoy, AstralSpiff, has done a lot of amusing things with FNaF Security Breach (fear the power of Giga Monty), I do tend to enjoy watching ProtonJon and Tom Fawkes, and I still enjoy watching raocow from time to time.

As for Easter, there wasn't really too much to it around here, my uncle and I aren't particularly religious types, at most I usually just enjoy some Easter candy and fight the temptation to add more bunny plushes to my collection. My uncle had given me a couple of Bonnie plushes last Christmas, plus I had gotten a few from a couple of Makeship campaigns recently, so I was able to resist this year, haha.

[alistairian]

Tagged by @gingerwerk !

Last song I listened to:

The Dead Can't Testify - Billy Talent

Currently watching:

Got up to season 10 of Doctor Who and a couple episodes into the latest season of Drag Race!

Tbh I spend more time watching youtube these days so shoutout to MrKravin (horror games), Salmence (stardew valley), Steve Shives (star trek) and Smosh (mostly their games channel)

Currently obsessed with:

Mostly just preoccupied with school ): but I've been pretty into dinosaurs? I guess? I recently downloaded around 300 "new" songs so I've been listening to a lot of Manchester Orchestra and Half Moon Run as I try to catch up with some of their discography ~ also new hozier stuff is supposed to come out very soon??

Tagging: @knittingwitht1 @trans-corvo @somatiq @bimyheel @kayrielwrites @lady-onion @bigtuna108 no pressure (:

#tag meme

[pinkiepiebones]

Nine People To Get To Know Better Tag Game!

Tagged by @coiled-dragon and @just-a-silly-little-guy 🥰

3 ships you like: Hannigram, Me/Renfield, Dracfield (but like. In the past. Honeymoony)

First ship ever: Probably Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D Wolfwood waaaaay back when I was 13... Guess the shippers these days call it Vashwood?

Last song you heard: Ghost's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Avalanche"

Favorite childhood book: Dealing with Dragons!

Currently reading: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Currently watching: Like, in general? Mostly just Seinfeld reruns, or any number of niche-ish youtubers (CJUGames, ManlyBadassHero, John Wolfe, MrKravin, Matt McMuscles, etc)

Currently consuming: Diet Coke

Currently craving: Hugs and kisses, a fancy tea, weed chocolate that really tastes like chocolate (very disappointing to take a bite and have weed flavour overwhelm 😖 it's not even a high dose block!), more storage space at work, $500, movie theatre popcorn,... a lot. I'm a craver. I crave.

I tag anyone who reads this. Ha!

#drugs cw #the single only good thing about living in this horrible state is the legality of substances

[roakkaliha]

not to shill or anything, but if “bad indie horror games/asset flips of often russian origin” is a genre that interests u... watch john wolfe n mrkravin. or at least their older stuff, bc they dont do bad indie horror as frequently anymore. or if ur just interested in horror lets plays by ppl who dont overreact or get scared from the smallest thing.

#.txt

[transhitman]

and the fact he finds all the secret endings n extra bits 👌 manly is great

he really is. I also used to watch a lot of mrkravin but then I sort of fell off with watching horror games

[cerinelle-stellarium]

My Friendly Neighborhood - MrKravin

#my friendly neighborhood #ceri posts stuff #Youtube

[heartswap]

john wolfe and mrkravin are my favorite horror game youtubers..it feels nice to watch their videos again

#i havent been on youtube in awhile so theres a lot of vids i gotta catch up on #🐇.txt

[elisamaza]

one of the best reactions to untitled goose game

#mrkravin #untitled goose game

[the-ghost-is-me]

Man, what happened to DTGA? :( I’m really sad that all of those videos are gone forever.

#John Wolfe #MrKravin #my greatest fear... IMPERMANENCY #*urge to download and catalogue every single upload intensifies* #gonna need a bigger hard drive hhhh

[noctomania]

The Space Between - Surreal Narrative Experience by Christoph Frey

The Space Between is a unique story experience with a low-fi look.

It is also apart of the Racial Justice and Equality Bundle on Itchio consisting of 742 games by 564 game devs for as low as $5:

https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-raci...

https://chrstphfr.itch.io/the-space-b...

LFG GAMERS

#Racial Justice and Equality #gaming #mrkravin #black lives matter

[alexiareyesart]

I was commissioned by youtuber MrKravin to create a piece for his group streams with John Wolfe, Sinow and GGGab as they play World War Z! I love all their videos so im so happy I could paint for my favorite let’s players!

#digital #photoshop #commission #mrkravin #john wolfe #sinowbeats #gggab #world war z #Illustration #illustrators on tumblr #artists on tumblr #alexia reyes

[yozokai]

this cracks me up every single time i see it

#mrkravin #outlast #my thing