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‘Fran Bow’ Moves To Steam Greenlight After Successful Funding Campaign
The fantastically creepy indie horror game Fran Bow has successfully reached its funding goal on the crowd-funding site Indiegogo with well over a week to spare. Its developer, the husband and wife team that is Killmonday Games hasn’t mentioned any possible stretch goals, so the money accrued over the remaining nine days may just be bonus money for the talented indie developer to use for added polish.
I recently played the Fran Bow demo and found it to be a delightfully twisted little game with a quirky art style and a wonderfully dark sense of humor — you can watch me play a portion of it after the jump.
In related news, Fran Bow has officially transitioned to Steam Greenlight as a game, where it was previously a game concept. This means it can now work toward distribution on the platform, assuming it can find the votes required for approval from Valve. That shouldn’t be a problem for them.
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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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