Let's Drown Out

In a new feature for this channel, Gabriel plays through games I made ages ago that I remember very little about except that I feel vaguely ashamed about them. Starting with some games I made with AGS around 15 years ago, and I really do wonder why no-one in all that time ever pointed out how incredibly homoerotic these things got.

I'm just... I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything. Including this video.

We hark back to the days of Duke Nukem 3D modding to look at an old unfinished mod thing from back before I had a decent mic. I was going to split the video into two before I remembered that I couldn't be arsed. Also: the return of Q&A!

Our voyage through my embarrassing earlier works continues with a game from 2002 rather heavily inspired by the Monkey Island series if Monkey Island had been mainly about sex jokes. Donkey Island, perhaps. Also, at the end of the video the audio for the last word gets cut off, so here's a transcript. "rs". Enjoy.

We finally get to the interesting stuff and start on the Chzo Mythos, entering a nightmarish world of fixed perspective, uniform room sizes and weirdly hilarious vertical movement.

In the concluding episode, we find the dark answers to the game's many mysterious questions, such as "Is Yahtzee capable of creating an entire game without it getting stupid before the end?"

The Chzo Mythos continues when the horror that struck DeFoe Manor recurs inexplicably 400 years later, and it would have been very horrific indeed if any of the characters involved acted the slightest bit like human beings.

Events continue to escalate aboard the good ship Mephistopheles, culminating in some incredibly frustrating chase gameplay and a really really good plot twist at the end.

We start to rub up on the post-adventure game phase of my game dev history with an epic sci-fi tale of data validation specialists exploring the universe, doing a small amount of adventuring and an awful lot of baconburger selling.

Things start getting a bit weird as the crew of the Elaborate Gesture piece together the Extranoids' sinister plot, and we learn just how dangerous it can be to stay inside doing your maths homework.

A bandaged man wakes up in a cell in a facility with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and spends his days being routinely tortured by an insane scientist. Then things get worse.

The Chzo Mythos continues as we catch up with our old pal Trilby, former cat burglar turned obnoxiously verbose government agent.

The thief turned paranormal detective continues his journey into darkness, hoping to discover the secret behind the mysterious Tall Man so that they can share fashion tips.

The final chapter of the Chzo Mythos begins with some dense recapping and a council building inspector of the future being pushed down an elevator shaft.

The final, incredibly easy to understand chapter of the Chzo Mythos brings with it pain, horror and the occasional interesting bug.

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After watching Trilby get kicked up and down the garden path by occult forces for four games, we get to see the lighter adventures of his earlier life, when he was just being hunted and tortured by a ruthless all-powerful secret government. But at least no-one has to get nailed to anything.

The Ego Review is getting close to being finished, as we play my first Game Maker title and my last freeware release. Derek Badger, an unflappable Yorkshireman, descends into a Metroidvania underworld to rescue his local gamekeeper and save the world from creatures of darkness.

Derek Badger and Rebecca fight their way to the truth behind the war with the Dark Ones, and must face the ultimate test. Also, we get bored and Gabriel quizzes me on video game trivia.

We take a break from Dark Souls 2 to look at some old abandoned shit I made in Adventure Game Studio before moving on from it as a game development tool. So don't get too intrigued because these will never be finished. Also, don't expect a mid-week video this Wednesday. Basically just learn to generally lower your standards.

The Consuming Shadow Insanity Edition is now available on Steam! Get it here: http://store.steampowered.com//app/40... In this video, we demonstrate a few of the new features, such as the Daily Challenge mode, in the only way we know how: with competitive bickering.