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In ‘Motte Island’ You Can Beat Down Giant Moths With Baseball Bats
I hate moths. They’re ugly butterflies — I’m not being mean, they know this — and that makes them bitter. That’s why every time I go outside, without fail, one dive-bombs me. If I were able to speak Moth, I’d probably hear its desperate pleas for me to smash its ugly ass into the ground so as to put it out of its misery.
Thankfully, there’s an indie developer out there who seems to feel the same way about Moths as I do. They’re called One Aperture, and their debut game is an atmospheric top-down isometric survival horror game (that’s a mouthful) called Motte Island. It’s still very much a work in progress, but it looks fun and moderately creepy. See it in action after the break.
If you’d like to join the fight against the entire Moth species, you can support Motte Island by voting for it on Steam Greenlight.
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The best part about engaging with collaborative genre fiction on the internet is that anyone can get in on the action, with worldwide accessibility often resulting in absurd story beats that wouldn’t be possible if any single person was responsible for the entire narrative. And while Kane Parsons’ Backrooms film is definitely the young filmmaker’s own unique take on the infamous creepypasta, it’s fun to see other creators join the Backrooms sandbox now that the big screen adaptation is getting ready for a record-shattering opening weekend.
As if cleverly timed releases like Puppet Combo’s The Backrooms game weren’t enough (not to mention that Scary Movie poster poking fun at Parsons’ flick), McDonald’s official social media accounts have now released an analog horror video of their own celebrating the liminal terrors of the McRooms – complete with a familiar purple surprise at the end of the footage.
While it’s funny enough to see the world’s most recognizable Fast Food giant engage with internet-borne Found Footage thrills seemingly out of the blue, the video is actually referencing a long-running gag among the Backrooms fandom where creators jokingly talk about there being a fully functional McDonald’s restaurant hidden somewhere in level 0 of the infamous liminal labyrinth.
Now, would it be too much to hope for a moist-carpet-flavored McShake to tie in with the film?
Backrooms is now playing only in theaters from A24.
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