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Experience VHS-Style Horror Gaming (in Five Minutes) With ‘September 1999’
Would you play a game that you can complete in around five minutes? 98DEMAKE is banking on that with their free horror title, September 1999. Available on 98DEMAKE’s itch.io site, the game is pretty simple atmospheric horror game where you walk down a hall with a camcorder, recording your progress (and the increasing tension).
According to the devs, the game is “pretty much an experiment on the whole ‘watching a tape’ style of gameplay.” The game closes itself once you complete it, so no fumbling around wondering if it’ll restart once you complete it on your coffee break.
If you are interested, you can toss 98DEMAKE a few coins their way on Patreon for their efforts. They’re apparently working on other projects as well, so why not?
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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