#Corpsepile

[fanpageforamon]

amon was so cool to tlk to :•)

i remember havin a good convo abt art n his techniques,,, hope he comes back soon. i miss him

One of my most prized possessions is a physical drawing I commissioned from him 😭 he really is such a fantastic artist. It's nice to see that I'm not the only one still holding out for his return.

[digitaltourbus]

Corpse Pile (Maggot Stomp Records) gives you a tour of the van that they travel the country in! Watch the video at https://www.digitaltourbus.com/features/corpse-pile-bus-invaders-ep-2001-video/

[luuckyyou]

We also need more ridiculous horror comedy games. Just straight up silly whilst also being well constructed and intentional. Do you follow

We need more horror games where you ARE the horror tbh.

[daybreakthing]

openhousegamic! ⸻ a gender connected to the game "The Open House" by corpsepile!

etymology; open house, gamic!

for 💤 anon!

tagging @radiomogai!

[doom-nerdo-666]

Doom Beta Graphics Corpsepile - Destructible (and Revivable) Decoration! MBF21 Decohack link in desc

[fandomsideworks]

the open house by corpsepile

[sawnocentersawnotwhereitlead]

corpsepilled deathmaxxer

-Suddenly, she shoots upright, gasping for air.-

"God- fuck- jesus-"

[kitty-m3ow]

Ashita no nadja and make sure it's closed by corpsepile, which is, I'm not sure how bizarre that would get for such a short game based on the fear the creator had as a kid but that could just be me.

[iknowwhattosayaboutrockandroll]

I'm a corpsepilled deadcel

[fanpageforamon]

It's been so fucking long and yet. I'm still here. I work on myself and I do stupid little paintings and I go to therapy and I get better but all I can think about is how empty and pointless and meaningless life is without him. I miss amon so much.

[digitaltourbus]

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[macksting]

11:31, 12-19-2022: on Horror (a ramble)

The main reason I love horror is it ramps down my anxiety. I have no reasonable explanation for this. The more dismal and futile the horror (mostly), the more okay I feel. It doesn’t feel like it’s a comparison to my life, since I never get relief by saying “at least I’m not THAT fucker” in any circumstance. ... Possible exception being my tabletop game characters. Anything bad that happens to them is hilarious to me. But that’s complicated and it’d be different if it happened to someone who didn’t live in my head. My usual joke is that it causes an anxiety The thing about horror is there’s ideas you can play with in horror that you literally can’t do much with outside it. There’s things that are truly fascinating which we justly and reasonably are terrified of, or which naturally lead to horrific scenarios. A lighter and fluffier Hereditary or Hellraiser would simply not be the same, or would amount to horror with a twist. I’m always interested in the exploration of strange and beautiful ideas. Horror offers some truly unique varieties, and personal favorites. One of my favorite things in horror is trying to use a medium to explain to someone else what it feels like to be afraid of something specific. My easiest example of this is Corpsepile’s “Make Sure It’s Closed,” a very simple game that expresses a childhood terror of having to close the garage door every night. https://corpsepile.itch.io/make-sure-its-closed You can do this kinda thing with other kinds of thoughts or genres, which is also fascinating, but it wouldn’t change that it’s one of my favorite things in horror. From the director of Hereditary (and other films!), Ari Aster, in an interview with Vulture: "When I was first writing this thing I was thinking, 'What scares me? What frightens me?’ And all of my worst nightmares revolve around either me inadvertently harming somebody that’s close to me and then me having to live with the guilt of that, or somebody that I love changing in some way and them either betraying me or leaving or dying and so I wanted to make a film that was kind of like tapping into these fears that have no real remedy. The fear of death, there is no remedy for that. The fear of death, of finding out that the people that you’re closest to are strangers or are that you don’t really know the people in your lives, there is no answer to that. It’s something we have to either make peace with or not. So I wanted to make a film that preyed on those themes.” That’s a very specific (and very reasonable) fear. I had to look away from some scenes in this film, not because they were visually disturbing, but because I was sad and heartsick.

[aquatic-batt]

The Open House by Corpsepile on itch.io is a favorite game a,omg my friends and I highly recommend y’all check it out, here’s the only two characters in the game whom we fondly refer to as Chet Bradley (based on another Corpsepile game) and Meatman lmao

[daybreakthing]

(1. A gender related to jingle bells

(2. A gender related to jingle bells (in a Christmas context)

(3. A gender related to Christmas & weirdcore themes

(4. A gender related to the horror game "The Open House" by corpsepile

(5. A gender related to Christmas themed horror games/horror games with Christmas themes (ex: Krampus is Home, Frosty Nights, Tattletail, etc.)

─ 💤 anon

all queued!

[playing-stories]

The Wonderful World of Itch.io

This is a love letter to the creators of free itch.io games. 

There is something incredibly refreshing about spending an evening on the itch.io free games page. They’re little bite-sized pieces of game play, but its not just the novelty of springing from game to game, from genre to genre that makes a few hours on itch.io feel like a cold drink on a hot day. I love itch.io because it feels like a reprieve. I talked in my last post at length about how Cyberpunk 2077 represents the flaws with the game industry and ‘gamer culture’ in a major way. This time around I want to take a closer look at the alternatives. 

Six Cats Under

Six Cats Under (Team Bean Loop) is both the most cheerful game I know of, and the most bittersweet. The basic premise is that you are an elderly lady who has died and you need to make sure your many many sweet kitties don’t go hungry. You achieve this by haunting your house as a poltergeist and getting those little kitty cats to eventually open the door and let themselves out. Six Cats Under takes the crazy cat lady stereotype of unmarried older women and uses it to explore a happy life we well lived. The game makes it clear that the old woman was not dissatisfied with her life, and these cats are not there to fill the void. She just loved cats, and lived surrounded by them. Six Cats Under did make me a little sad. It reminded me of those stories of the elderly who are left for weeks alone after they pass, with no one checking on them until they start to smell. Its an undignified and sad way to go and we hear about it all too often. For this woman though, its okay. All she wants for is for her sweet kitties to leave the apartment and then she’ll be at peace. No regrets, no unfinished business, no lamenting the path in life she chose. Playing in this woman’s domestic space, and using that domestic space to manipulate the cats according to their own distinct personalities is a joy. This game is a wonderful exploration of life and death. It is charming and happy. Importantly though, it doesn’t force you to be happy. You can be sad for the death of this woman, and either way it’ll comfort you. 

https://teambeanloop.itch.io/six-cats-under

make sure its closed

The description of make sure its closed (corpsepile) reads ‘I made a short game about something that used to scare me as a child’. What stands out about this is something that I’m sure is the case for a lot of itch.io horror game creators - its a game about what scares them in particular. make sure its closed features a garage door that is tricky to close and something horrible just outside. The game is incredibly simple in its controls and execution. It feels a lot like a scary story someone might tell around the campfire but a really good one. While I can’t comment on corpsepile’s creative process, to me what comes across is a real authenticity, that corpsepile wanted to tell their players why they they were scared of the garage door. We all have our own garage door. A place in our homes or another place that we feel is otherwise safe that gets our minds ticking over outrageous but horrifying ideas that something might be lurking just out of site. For me, it was the corner where the stairs in our hose would go out of sight. make sure its closed puts you back into that childhood body and asks you to revisit that childhood fear, making it visceral and uncomfortably familiar.

https://corpsepile.itch.io/make-sure-its-closed

Kill the Ice Age Baby Adventure: The Game

This game is very silly and very funny. Kill the Ice Age Baby (kypello) is like walking though a strange fever dream. Kypello implores the player not to play - ‘you’ll lose braincells’ but having ignored their request I found myself very invested in seeing the end of the ice age baby’s life. The humour of this game comes primarily from taking established properties, characters, and even political figures and completely alienating them from their intended context. Ronald McDonald gives me speech in which he expresses his WWII opinions. The primary villain, the ice age baby, is a character who was once supposed to inspire warmth in audiences of the hit animated movie saga Ice Age is appropriated to become something so utterly divorced from the intended context. This is something that game studios cannot do. Not because they aren’t funny or clever enough, but because this sort of appropriation would result in legal headaches and would simply not be allowed. The beauty of Kill the Ice Age Baby comes partly from the fact that it cannot exist outside of the margins. 

An assessment of the political implications of this can be found in a video on the McElroy brothers by let’s talk about stuff in which she addresses why corporate alienation is so effective - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nNYQc98Ftw

https://kypello.itch.io/kill-the-ice-age-baby-adventure-the-game

Browsing the free games on itch.io feels like the modern day answer to zine culture. They are organic, grass roots, and are often created in the margins. Just a quick browse of the Top Free Games Page will highlight just how often these games forefront LGBT+ characters, stories, and relationships (There’s This Girl by Angela He, one night, hot springs by npckc). They engage with topics that are often (or completely) ignored in larger game studios such as mental health issues (Adventures With my Anxiety by Nicky Case). They are sites for fans to express their love for other media (Transient - A Good Omens Fangame by Oemuff), and they can be satirical, or even scathing subversions of the world around us (Eat the Rich by Call Of the Void).

These games are small, but they feel like an escape from the alienation that bears down on large studios who produce games for mass markets. Much like zines, these games were made for the love of making games, and the love of whatever the game is about and it shows. Creators on Itch.io show us what videogames have the potential to be if we could all pursue what makes us happy rather than necessarily what will sell. Sitting down and playing these games allows me to briefly live in that world, and it is a joyful place to be.

https://itch.io/games/free

P.S - support game creators if you can! They do need to pay their bills at the end of the day!

[fandomsideworks]

the open house by corpsepile