Chip Time: The Haunted MS-DOS Game Webseries
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Do any of you remember floppy disks? Will any of you want to remember floppy disks after this series? Come with me and join the hierarchy as we uncover one of my case files, Chip Time.
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Night Mind great job my feline friend! You have been banging out hits recently I feel like it’s 2 years ago all over again! Keep up the fan freaking tastic work.
Are you gonna do more reading videos? The previous ones were cool
🦇 well, I certainly have nothing to do for the next 40+ minutes (hangs out)
(Edit) missed opportunity. Feels like they were trying to make a slenderman type series with the best elements from multiple unfiction stories except for the ones that help ground it in reality.
I'm getting The Last Broadcast vibes
Heya Nightmind! Any news on POSTContent? Also, love all your creepiness! ❤
The best detail is the frustrated huffing after inputting multiple dead end prompts into the game. I feel that.
Definitely something that I barely remember but still remember from playing the old type adventure games that my oldest brother had...
Night Mind is correct not often you find a functional floppy disc game I only have one floppy disc game that I had working still it is Oregon trail
It really wouldn't even have been all that hard to actually fix the intro. Whoever made the series could easily have just said that the guy mailed him the hard drive and when he went onto it, it was filled with weird things that actually weren't about the project. After not hearing from his friend for a little bit after trying to ask his friend questions about the hard drive, the protagonist goes to the guy's apartment, finds it completely ransacked, films it real quick, and then calls the cops. Boom, instantly far more intrigue, an actual investigation to go through, and everything is logically consistent.
I wonder if there was some way to make the premise we got make more sense
@@bloodstoneore4630 part 2??
@@miqeyt3317 maybe
I had this same exact thought!
AAAAAAAAAAAAND if he said the police hadn't done anything it would have made teh apartment still being empty 1 year later look less like a plot hole and more like a mystery.
Unfiction be like *camera distorts* *camera distorts* *camera distorts* *camera distorts* *camera distorts*
*SUDDEN EAR RAPE*
Walking through forest. Nothing happens. Oooh spooooky
@ op and all of the replies
Sounds like some Sqimpus McGrimpus stuff to me but ok
You can't just make Unfiction with spooky visual effects!
> Haha, camera distortion goes BRRRRRR.
UwU **posts a distorted picture with a caption in binary/morse code**
its funny because he doesnt even act scared to walk into an apartment in that state. I'd be worried that this 'guy' i was talking to just used it as a place to lure victims
when nightmind mentioned how off it felt my first thought was "I bet the camera man did the ransacking"
His voice kinda sounds like jacksfilms doing a parody.
There's a lot wrong with that scene, and I call some of it out in my comment above, but the other thing that your comment had me thinking was this: Anyone who is the type to rush into an apartment like that is going to do so for two reasons; either to see if someone is in danger/needs help, or to try and catch the person responsible for the break in. None of that involves rushing in to film it. Now, is the implication supposed to be that he did all of this off-camera and is only now breaking out the camera to document it? I feel like it would bear mentioning. Either way, this whole video is swiss fucking cheese.
the worst part is there are people who act like this irl
@@thesilverblueman "who act like this," meaning filming when they should be helping, or...?
I cant wait for the Scott cawthon effect. Where people say this thing (game or arg) is done or dead and the creator pours out info and plots
@@pyronaught6823 I mean probably not but it works
@TheStoutProtagonist Lasagna Cat effect?
Except Scott clearly just added more and more nonsense to fill in his own plot holes cuz his writing is kinda bad
Who's Scott Cawthon again?
@@TenisJr he created five nights at freddys
Something I really likes about this series was the motif of the color red. Seeing a dedicated and subtle type of motif or symbolism like this is something I have rarely seen in any web series I can recall besides alantutorial or mushroomland. While what the color red is supposed to entail is never fully elaborated or anything, its still too consistent to not be intentional and goes to show how this series had some great idea but failed in execution of its plot and such.
"Delivering information that is rewarding and compels more questions without giving the whole game away or being a 'spoopy ARG man' is a balancing act."
Perfect.
Maybe it already exists and I just haven't run into it yet, but I'd love to see an unfiction series that starts out as someones self journey in documenting their sleep paralysis. Initially seeking to sate a curiosity about what happens to their body when they're experiencing sleep paralysis, only to realize as the series goes on that they're actually experiencing the effects of a physical presence.
That'd be a cool one. There's old drawings depicting sleep paralysis that are pretty creepy. By any chance did you see the movie 'Awake'? The premise of that might also be interesting, a guy goes into surgery but the anesthesia that's supposed to put him under actually only paralyzes and numbs him so that he's awake for his entire transplant surgery. There's a mystery that he uncovers while under I won't reveal if you've not seen it, but I'd imagine as an unfiction story, it could be done as med school students or something. Speaking of, there's also Flatliners which might have an interesting premise to springboard from that also lends itself into sleep paralysis. If you've not seen THAT one, it's med school students that intentionally medically kill themselves for short periods of time for the thrill of experiencing death, with the friends essentially treating death itself like a drug they can't give up because the 'high' is so addictive. Just some stuff that came to mind while I was thinking of sleep paralysis. Not necessarily related but I could imagine a clever writer figuring out how to maybe start there and go wild places with it and not even need to have monsters....just disturbed people lost in their own experiences.
Look up Dear David, pretty old ARG but a good one
Watch the movie ‘come true’
Honestly the minute I saw the words "Night Mind" and "Haunted MS-DOS game" I was like THIS IS MY SHIT but after watching it, it just made me appreciate Petscop all the more. It managed to tell a somewhat similar story despite the fact that we only ever see the gameplay and none of the off-screen characters(Paul, Belle, the Boss) . Petscop maybe a bit too much left unanswered too, but it still fell like a "complete" experience in a way Chip Time doesn't, everything connects up in one way or another. There's no "Paul takes a trip to Nebraska and this is never touched on again". Everything either has a stated reason or feels like it connects in some way.
Sister rose!!! Heey. Im from dads discord :3
It has a sloppy start with the first video, but it gets better later on
I love MS-DOS games. I also love the wild west vibe of game development that went on with it. Anyone could make a game, put it on a floppy, and copy and trade it. Makes the idea of a creepy DOS game a lot more real than a creepy NES game imo.
A lot of people made video games for Atari 2600 and the other consoles of the time that were homebrew. Could be an interesting idea for another ARG.
@@PsionicMonk Please Do it!!
PS: I had a Vic 20 computer - pre-Commodore 64 - & it had a Cassette Tape Drive with the freaking BEST SCARIEST RPGs Evs!!!!
Feel free to pick my memories cos though I don't "believe" in scary crap? I've nonetheless experienced some insane sh¡+! XOXO
@@AmberAmber Perhaps. I wouldn't hold your breath but I have been meaning to do some kind of writing. :)
@@PsionicMonk I seriously encourage you to! (I won't hold my breath •promise• but as a writer who sucks at horror but LOVES ARGs & scary stuff? That idea WILL bug you 'til you let it out...👍😊💗
Best of luck to you Psionic & All hail the Best Generation Yet - you Young'ns (& I'm Super Sorry we GenXrs let those stodgy boomers eff up the earth for allz'y'all...😩).
"a lot more real than a creepy NES game imo."
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My god, I've been away from this channel due to health issues and haven't watched a single video for over a year now. Man have I missed your content, it's just the best I've seen in the ARG community EVER. I mean I've been watching your vids since Unedited Footage, and damn did I miss you.
Dunno if you'll be reading this comment, but just in case: I really love your content man and keep up the good work, I believe in you dude!
Sorry you've had a rough time with your health, but it's a pleasure to have you back!
@@NightMind Thanks, I'm so exhilarated to see what I've missed ^^
Got to love awful acting that ruins otherwise good themes and effects. I think a good way to get around that is to think would anyone really act like that in real life?
Agrees in damn good margaritas
The acting is just distractingly bad
@@shinygems739 the living room scenes are like the start of a bad porno looooool
The key to good acting in a "realistic" spooky webseries is, surprise surprise, not "acting" at all.
All you need to do is behave how you normally would if you were to actually experience what the characters are experiencing.
@@AngstyLou iconic tbh
There is no such thing as bad Night Mind content, and your coverage on House of Leaves will probably always remain my favorite of your videos (just because of how special the book is to me), but this is the good shit right here. Coverage of an internet series that is right up my alley but somehow never crossed my path. An investigation into something completely fresh, but also eerily familiar to me, that might be my most preferred flavor of Night Mind, and this is another stellar example why.
Definitely not bad Night Mind content but unpreferred, I love Lovecraft and things similar but I think alot of us (obviously not all) really love Night Mind for what the channel was originally found on and covered
Ever seen his second Petscop Video?
Your critique of this series was extremely professional and constructive - like, am I back in art school?? I'd never heard of Chip Time until this video, but to be honest I feel like this series was a great example of "what not to do"...and not even in a mean way or anything. Like I said, all of your input was super constructive.
Also, can I just say I truly love how you encourage anyone and everyone to create and tell a story. It's so inspiring and refreshing to hear encouragement from a well-rounded creator like you :))
Looking forward to your next uploadddd~
One of the reasons I love him. He's gentle when correcting because he genuinely wants to see creators create. Crapping on their projects won't help them. The only time you see him get angry is when he feels a creator is either a) stealing with malicious intent or b) purposely harming people with their work. At least, that's what I've noticed. His uplifting, motivational... like, gentle encouraging but insistent pushing is one of the things I love about him, because it's legit. You can feel the realness in that voice.
45:53 Props to Jordan Youngers and Ariel Brant for stumbling into what might be the most obscure and underwatched Unfiction story ever, sticking it out to the end, and rooting for it to continue long after the creators had given up
haha thanks. it was unexpected af seeing my comment in a nightmind video tho lol
Not to say that Nick is stiff and humourless but it's normally when he starts laughing while analysing content which stands on shaky ground that shows we're headed back to the cabin soon...
It's more like he can hold himself together and resist laughing most of the time
Cabin?
@@Eevee860 you can sometimes hear when he's smiling while talking
Yessssss
@@bunny-bear3224 He has a series call "Cabin Fever Dreams" in it, he makes snarky remarks about weak unfiction stories.
"Simon continues loosing it, now in lovely black and white" 😂😂😂
Ok this is really picky but the way they practically spring up from unconsciousness at 21:33 bugs me. Theres a knock at the door and they're both suddenly wide awake at the same time, standing up and speaking normally as if they hadn't been woken up in the middle of the night.
i agree, but sometimes if i'm scared/shocked enough i can be awake and walking around in a pretty short amount of time.
@@endmybuffering that's fair! It's just the way that both of them react that way at the exact same time, as if they had rehearsed it or it was acting. I dont doubt that very sudden wake ups can happen, it just felt like they were both actors waiting for their cue to be awake.
They also don't startle awake either. I noticed the same thing when I watched it.
I also feel like it would be more unsettling if the knocking didn't stop. It was already a pretty long knock, and I know I'd likely ignore a knock that late at night. If it kept going for a solid minute, then it would have built suspense better, and made more sense to actually get up and check it.
well i can tell you from being a mother, and one that can't hear - my partner would wake up in the middle of the night for our kid, and I'd be right up with her - you spring right into action when maternal instincts kick in.
"It's not what it's about. It's *how* it's about it." - Roger Ebert
You don't have to be original in your ideas. You just have to be original in your execution.
Nightmind: “I have some thoughts and I’m sure you do too”
Me: No thoughts, head empty.
Yea most times I watch his videos either sleeping or stoned or both.. when stoned I’m just stuck usually playing the video as bg noise
an obscure MS-DOS game? Someone call Ross, we've got a new topic for a game dungeon video
You don't like Wallace and Grommet? Ó╭╮Ò
I can already hear the game dungeon intro music
@@cgmaster2 haha same
Freemans's Mind but it's unfiction
I don't think Ross will cross over with Night Mind until the mould construct accidentally slips up with its disguise during one of the video chats, but whatever happens happens.
He probably could’ve fixed the “how I got it” part by having the person he was talking to mail it to him instead, he watched some of the footage, got worried, went to check on him, then saw the place and called authorities. How he knew of the game could be that he was told about it, given they were working on some project together.
Sun is outside shining bright and you just wanna kill my vibe with this video?! I can digg it.
@Иван Рожков
Lucky
Gotta say, I feel pretty safe whenever I watch your content. You cutting out the horrible noises at 18:40 was such a nice touch! Not the first time I've noticed you do stuff like this! Keep it up :D
I feel like it would have been better to just show the conversations with Chip, with better writing, keeping in the reactions from the person typing. Some spooky things could happen while he plays, but he would always come back to the computer, giving the viewer only slight glimpses of the room he is in, and it falling in disarray as time goes on.
The acting gave off a very scripted vibe. Most un-fiction series like this are a little more extemporaneous. Also...you can’t expect me to believe that Simon is romantically involved with a woman. You can’t.
I kept thinking that! How'd he get a girlfriend?
@@clyne8835 why wouldn't he?
They're implying that it appears that Simon's preferred gender in a romantic partner is not female.
I laughed, and got your vibe, but I just gotta say: that's bi and homophobic... I wish I was kidding, but I'm not... You know... Getting social conscious really takes some joy out of the world in a way, but hey, the world is terrible and the first step to making it better is acknowledging it.
@@TenisJr I think you've got it all wrong. I think OP actually meant that Simon, a man that looks like he's around his 40s, is with a 20ish-year-old woman.
Ok near the end now. If the series continued, the apartment could have worked if he went back and found new people there who seemed weirded out and claimed they've been living there since _before he first visited,_ implying some weird ass time distortion going on
Would it be perfect? No. But it would have helped patch that hole at least
I was thinking along the lines of him going back after 14 months and things REALLY not changing. Perishable foods still fresh, electricity still on, back door still open, no dirt or dust, and how is the rent being paid? He then gets a call and the date on his phone is 14 months ago, with the caller trying to hold a conversation that was only relevant 14 months ago.
I like your idea even more. 😁
How about new people live there, dude meets them, and then they have conversation about finding ChipTime in the bathroom, obviously the protagonist would mention the friend disappearing after asking him to come over and check out a game. New appartment occupant isn't into games, but didn't throw it away, hands it over to protagonist, new hauntings begin as protagonist gives it a whirl. How did the game get back in there? IDK. Why was it there the first time? Magic, I guess.
I was going to say, there's another weak point in this series: never a sense that our viewpoint uploader character is getting involved. Outside of the weird videos and emails that go nowhere, he's perfectly fine. Like, imagine how dull Marble Hornets would have been if Jay never got personally involved.
What I'm trying to say is, your idea would give us that moment of the uploader now becoming part of it, instead of a detached observer.
this ambiance is really hitting different when it’s raining and cloudy outside i love it
I am only six minutes in, and this already REEKS TO THE HEAVENS of amateurish writing.
Last time I was this early, I was just getting into the EveryManHybrid series.
I just got chills seeing the light eyes guy in the corner... that doesn't happen often. Nice.
"I found this at an estate sale." You wouldn't believe the odd old stuff you find at these things. It cuts through all the weird "I found a crime scene and instead of calling the police, I tainted it and stole evidence" and even adds an implied sinister element to the story by the mere fact that the "artifact" might have led to the previous owner's death. So please, stop saying "I got this mysterious letter in the mail" or "I found this in my grandfather's box that he told me never to open" and just say "I got it at an estate sale."
Or "dude was moving out of his apartment and getting rid of everything to make the move easier"
The concept itself isn’t horrible but the acting could definitely use some work.
"some"
My thoughts exactly, great concept, amateur acting. Decent cgi!
8:04 Okay but no. When you’re in a situation where you think someone is breaking in, you do not call out to them, otherwise you risk the intruder running out and further putting yourself at risk. That’s rule #1 in any terrifying situation
I literally lose my voice, cannot speak even through trying so hard, whenever I have been in that moment of fear.
There are more problems with the believability of the initial scene. I felt like I was nit-picking (my dad was a cop/detective and I'm an investigative journalist... I should have a degree in nit-picking) The whole thing screams setup. If someone was ransacking the place to look for something, there are chairs turned over, but the drawers are still in the desk and no one has cut into the mattress, cushions, etc. There are lamps knocked over, but the light bulbs aren't broken. This is the least believable break-in that I have ever seen. I just really wanted to point that out... I'm only like, 10 mins into it though, so I'll give it a break and continue.
Anything else you noticed??
@@Magic-np1ws One. The papers. They have burn marks on them, but none that obscure anything. It seems very carefully done to not burn any of the important stuff off. I'll go through it at 1/4 speed and see what else I can find.
@@andrewjhollinsI feel they really messed it up. They rather needed to pay attention to the details like you pointed out, or chose a few things to do to tell a better story. A ransacker isn't always going to destroy everything, but they're rather going to make a big mess, or a few smaller ones in the areas where they'd expect what they're looking for to be.
@@theradiantdehd3997 See, I'm glad when I hear stuff like this, because a lot of times, I'm left wondering if I'm being too critical or if this is the kind of stuff everyone notices and reacts to the way I do.
@@andrewjhollins if what they wante was on a computer, they've no need to rip a mattress.
lamps have lampshades and frames they hang on to prevent thr very thing you mentioned, and as far as burning carefully on paper?
...you ever tried to control fire, lol?
Great video! One thing I do want to add, you asked how he would run a floppy now a days. There are USB to Floppy drive adapters even today, and a app called DOSBox is used to run those old games. Even today I play old DOS games using this app. But that is just my techie side talking. Completely agree with your thoughts about this series.
This is Nick at his absolute best. Spot-on analysis, humor and the same feel I had from his early videos involving Marble Hornets.
I'm glad he has found material that intrigues him again. 2020 should be a hell of a ride.
YES! 48 minutes of listening to Night Mind's soothing voice mixed with possible nightmare inducing sounds cause I'm too scared to even watch these vids!
NightMind you are the best in creepy things! My wife doesnt like scary things but you do weird and creepy stuff to like Alan Tutorial and she really enjoyed that. Keep up the good work man!
Sewer People my husband is the same way, he hates scary things, but he and I both like weird things that NM has covered.
@@Emma88178 yea stuff like DAD is really just strange and that stuff is cool for everyone
37:43 - The minigames are developed from Game Maker 6-7; it had a perfectly editable Pac-Man styled game and also a Moon Landing one, this one uses the very same assets as that one game example from the engine. Not necessarily a flaw, in fact; it delivers nostalgia.
Time dilation and time loss were old before Slenderman's creator's parent's were a twinkle in *their* parents eyes, it is a common trait of alien abduction victims apparently.
This is more more in a pocket dimension aspect though. It's not that Simon lost time. If it was stated that the film was cut I would feel differently about it, but there's nothing to indicate it wasn't a one-take- as it makes the most sense to be unedited and that has been the style in general of everything on the hard drive. It was stated to be 30 minutes of him simply sitting there and leaving. It's more of a warping of time and space around a place or individual in this instance. Dilation in alleged abductees is usually referring to a someone thinking their hours was a few minutes or someone essentially "blinking" consciousness from one time to the next, but its method of action always seems to refer to that time as having indeed happened, it was just repression or forced removal of memory, etc.
The fact that the camera recorded it made that time leap more of a corporeal(in a _mostly_ figurative definition) idea, so space-time would have needed to move around his little pocket at a warped pace. Because of that, it can also start to beg the question of whether Simon was on the exact same timeline before and after the incident- whether this is a singular timeline idea where if someone was able to see him, but didn't approach closely, that he would appear seated for multiple hours or if he was "removed" to some unknown inter-plane area where time meant little in terms of coherence before and after. Interestingly as a potential development to the story, if the camera wasn't filming a one-take due to excessive glitching or a corrupt bit of footage in there where he was still seated after and appeared like nothing of note happened, or the shot wasn't with Simon in frame the entire time, a question could be posed of whether it was the same _Simon_ before and after, which could aid in what appeared to be a decline in mental state actually having a shifting aspect instead of the slowly going insane idea, which I find stale at this point, especially if done so quickly and casually as this.
@@ZackBenedict The time distortion isn't the problem, the fact that the old building that throws you into tomorrow was unconnected to the rest of the story, same as him going to a red gate and attacking some guy who was presumably just doing his job.
...and cosmic horror, ghost stories, stories that are horrific but revealed they're not 'scary' but from point of view of someone going mad (i.e. Fight Club's Jack losing sense of self only to wake up and find his alter ego's been more and more in control, etc.)
Everytime I watch a Night Mind video I think hey he has a soft voice I can go to sleep to this and then I realise I was terribly wrong
Breaking news: local stoner meddles with crime scene to find an mp4 of a man playing a MS-DOS game on a Macintosh
I wonder who's more incompetent, Blake or Chris from My Dad's Tapes? Considering how that series ended i think they would make a great hero and villain set.
Plot twist: Blake is Chris in disguise.
I had that series vibe here and thought they were the same people. The camera work, the “horror” aspect and the acting is very similar to dads tapes
They both seem like they'd enjoy some damn good margaritas.
The last time I was this early we were still on the Everyman Hybrid series.
Jesus christ we left the same comment within 1 second of eachother.
Felony There are a lot of us who haven’t been early in a long time
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I'm dead bro this comment was SO funny and original
2:43 as somebody who looks over languages' alphabets as a hobby, that text is INSANE. That legit looks like some sort of alternate reality language, and it uses actual altered letters from different languages. It looks heavy on Greek and maybe some Cyrillic? It has a 7 as a letter, so that's something.
I just noticed some letters that look like Archaic Betas too.
Wait....sooooooo you are telling me there are only 72 coments for now... as a person who watches NIGHT MIND like...a week after his videos are posted
SOMETHING AIN'T RIGHT HERE CHIEF
Holy shit, you’ve been uploading, like, REALLY frequently lately, I don’t know if I’m mentally prepared for this
" do I have your curiosity?"
Well you had it from the beginning but now you have my attention
17:27 the ghost
I saw it hanging off of my doorframe about a year ago when i woke up during the night
Black figure, circular white eyes
That's him
Me on my finals: I don't know everything you want to know
A DOS game? Maybe this should’ve been a collab with LGR
I do like the use of narration. It's not done in args often and gives a bit of a noir tinge I am a sucker for.
This is perfect. I just get home from school. Got dinner fresh outta the oven, and a nice tall beer and I'mma sit and enjoy it while watching Nightmind. Perfect evening.
$20 on amazon yu can get a 3.5 floppy disk reader.
44:01 "Cryptic Spooky-Man Disease" is my new username, thx/credit
Honestly, I feel like the "14 months later" return trip could have been reworked into an interesting plot twist. With a bit of editing and decent awareness as to the sounds and surroundings at the time, it could have been a real mind-bender. Imagine if right after he left the apartment he ran into someone, this person asks, "Hey, do you need something?", our mc answers, "No...just visiting my friend - But he's not home right now!", new guy looks at him like he's a weirdo, walks up to the apartment the mc JUST left, unlocks it, and we get a quick peek into the apartment to find it looks...normal. As in, a normal apartment that most definitely had NOT been ransacked recently. As in NOT what mc just left. It would have made the whole 'no police officer not being involved and no one cleaning up or anyone else checking things out for more than a year' plot point more believable as it would have called into question if anyone else even knew there was an apartment or anything needing to be looked into there in the first place, got our main character off the hook for any possible legal violations, and given them a LOT of plot ammo. But no, all we get is poorly wielded handwavium.
This rough set up reminds me of something I have always wanted to see in a web series. Someone entering the supernatural series as someone with a history of being a bad person and active criminal. Maybe even having a warrant. That would be immediate justification for breaking laws, stealing hard drives(could lead to the cops looking for the protagonist), and general inability to contact the police in the initial setup. This also has the benefit of opening new doors that are unexplored in web series and could create immediate high stakes for the protagonist. Not only do they have to worry about other worldly creatures but the threat of their imprisonment if they are found by the police. Even worse. They get so far in it that their imprisonment would almost certainly lead to their death if they are locked up and unable to run from it.
i kinda get two vibes from it, one its an EverymanHYBRID vibe with all the colored distortion effects and how its filmed and the second one is a more faint Paranormal Activity like vibe with the whole "keep the camera on at all times to record all of our actions so nobody thinks we are crazy"
But the narrator and such feels off and like its forced into the story without any kind of sense or organic feeling whatsoever, the narrator doesnt feel like one character more it feels like its one of your friends that tries to make a edgy dark story believable but since he wants to make it "spooky" he bends way too much certain rules in order for his narrative to work as he intends to work, and that's the problem he wants to be EverymanHYBRID and Dark Harvest way too quickly and the whole atmosphere and credibility of the story goes out the window in 2 seconds flat the moment the first video starts, work on the ambience and the world building a little then you can be as gimmicky and oscure as you want but you really need to work on establishing characters and their world better.
Not even once in the whole thing i care about any of the characters, in a way it felt like a videogame where characters are there in order to be some gameplay device or some plot device that helps in moving the story fowards, but they dont work like actual characters with personalities and stuff that makes you *CARE* for them because they are in a dire situation and you have to feel something, anything for them in order to feel the full impact of what you are trying to convey, this are just the most basic, plain and dull generic webseries protagonists i ever saw, the narrator that might or might know what's going on and surely wants to keep dwelling further into this madness because "because", the two main protagonists or victims that one is clueless as why the clever one is turning against him/her and might end up in a horrific situation because it cant do anything about it and we need something tragic to occur, and the clever one that knows what's going on but at the same time doesnt have a clue as well and needs to "find anwsers" just "because" and ends up being turned, possesed or transformed into something far worse than the others could imagined and its the main antagonistic force having the first real threat in the series being its "partner in crime" and almost not doing anything for the most part or being the magical justification for werid things to happend.
Sounds familiar? because its the same thing that happend with Habit and Slenderman, a unfortunate guy that knew way too much and ended up being the next host for an antagonistic force that was behind all since the begining, turning him into the mayor threat and the paranormal creature being the justification for all the werid and paranormal stuff that happend.
Look i know that you can be inspired by something when you come up with a new idea, and that's not a bad thing but you have to at least give it your own personal touch to make it stand out from the rest, fortunatedly it does have something unique this DOS game (when is a Game Maker game actually) called Chip Time, if the series were like Petscop and tried to mix paranormal stuff like EverymanHYBRID happening whenever he did something in the game and that resulted on what happends in real life could had been something very unique, like he is making a "let's play" and then when he opens something in the game it opens something on his apartment, then if a monster appears in the game then a monster appears in his apartment and the only way to get rid of the monster is via defeating him in the game, and if he wanted some cult to appear or something he could had reffered to Dark Harvest a little more because while its not a perfect description of a "evil" cult its the best one that happend on a webseries before, this "cult" here sounds bad at its best and very stupid at its worst.
Sorry for the long rant critique but yeah it needs *A LOT OF WORK* if it wants to be something better, the game part its really neat but they barely do something with that and that's a shame since it could hold endless possibilites for a very clever and very striking webseries, but just copying EverymanHYBRID with some hint of Dark Harvest cult stuff and a haunted video game its just dont mixing well enough to caught my attention as much as i initially thought it could do.
Six minutes in and the demon already sounds like he's struggling to contain an incredulous grin. He is right, though; the initial setup is pretty ridiculous.
Excuse my rudeness I didn't realize I wasn't subscribed! Here I am enjoying your content and didn't even realize I wasn't subbed. Love your content man, I know you hear it a lot but the quality and different stories keeps this a much better channel than some other "horror" channels.
After a few minutes of watching this guy I can't suspend disbelief that hes heterosexual let alone enough to buy into the haunted game thing.
Nightmind uploading more case files?!?!
“Lord have mercy... I’ve got the vapors...-“
Is what I would say if I was a nineteenth century southern grandmother.
*hears incessant knocking on door*
"Maybe it's just some crazy guy"
Yeah, just your average, everyday crazy guy knocking on your door. Don't bother calling the police or anything
I like it when dad raises his voice OwO
I still own a laptop old enough just to run floppy disk and a tower.. it's fun sometimes looking at dead media.. there are some strange, stupid, and weird things you can find at flea markets. The problem is where people store floppy disk.. Barns and backyard sheds often ruin them.. idk I got a lot of free time lol.. it's fun, thanks Nightmind.. I often find myself checking your channel to see if have uploaded.. stayyyyy sppoookkkyyy
Here is what I would have done differently.
1) Blake was sent everything in a box and when he tried to go to the apartment on the return address it was locked and nobody answered.
2) Have the mini games from Chip Time actually be what Simon is doing. Have Simon be in a trance like state where he doesn't talk.
3) Have Simon start to have an issue with sleep walking and losing time be related to why everything is recorded. Like a go pro that is constantly strapped to him. Even maybe relate it to issues he had before moving and it's why he is affected and not his girlfriend.
4) Have Chip Time be like a proof of concept or something like a simple college project. Make a point that the company doesn't exist but when asking around the University of California, or whatever it was, talk about the weird guy who made it because he was memorably weird.
5) Don't do emailed videos. Just do emails from Simon's account that are getting more disturbing the more we see Simon start to go insane/possessed. Even have it so "Simon" tells Blake where the key is if he wants to visit.
6) Have Simon pretend like he doesn't see the monsters and what not in the footage but show him being upset or his body cam showing him freaking out when he is alone.
7) In the last video before Blake goes to the apartment, have it be a huge mess. But when Blake does go, it's perfectly clean and orderly.
8) Have Blake find the Chip Time floppy and have there be a new game that wasn't in the footage, implying that Simon has made a game for Chip Time. Meaning that every game in Chip Time was a victim.
9) Find the guy who made Chip Time, have him be normal and nothing like what was described. He doesn't even remember what he did for the programming class project. And reveal that his bullies, maybe even abusers, called him Chip but that the name doesn't fit him anymore.
10) Have an ending already planned because it's obvious they were making stuff up as they went along at a point. The ending I would have planned is that Chip put all of his hate into that shitty little floppy and essentially made another entity that has been trapping people inside the game and becoming stronger for every new intriguing mystery that was left behind for new people. First it was the weird AI in a floppy, than it was the games that seemed to be happening in real life. But Chip was made for an age without the internet, and now that everything has been discovered instead of trapping somebody else it's essentially powerless. No cult. Just others who were or are effected by it doing what Chip wants. Oh and no saving those people. They go crazy when Chip is powerless or they don't come back from inside the game.
Love your videos! I can never get the time to participate in online fiction so i love watching your content and enjoying the hard work that goes into it
I can't get over the fact that with each video in this web series is framed *too* *perfectly* .
For similar videos, reading the text out loud might be helpful for us watching. ^^ Makes it more transformative aswell. I like your videos, and enjoy hearing you talk honestly :P
Oh wow I'm so early!! RUclips came through with a notification!!! Awesome stuff, lovely bit of NM coz I've been poorly bad today!
I really enjoy this being analyzed as an art piece and not as “oOooOooOoO gUyS lOoK aT tHiS sPoOkY iNtErnEt vIdEo *insert spooky sounds and erarape*”
You know... you could actually make a really stupid premise like the ransacked apartment deal work if the creator acts like they're playing it straight for most of the unfiction, only for it to reveal very slowly that the person who found the footage is the one who kidnapped/disappeared the victim, after framing it like a weird paranormal deal. In fact, I thought that was the direction it would take from his comment while touring the apartment of, "I don't know if this part of the project, or what." It sets it up like maybe the couple are playing him, setting up their own ARG story without looping him in. That could have also been a viable way to go, I guess. But neither of those things happened, so it just shatters the reality. I wish it had been clever enough to play on audience expectations.
chiptime showed a lot of passion in its making. It shows how much effort they put into their series, but it was limited by its execution.
These all sound like actions I would have taken in this situation, Be mindful your not the only type of person who exists, Nighty.
always great to wake up from a nap to a vid of you, Nicky, thanks!
A way to solve the apartment: Our guy goes into a auction for items from the apartment and buys these things. That solves things.
That's a great idea.
It would leave out the apartment entirely. Or if he really wanted to stick with the apartment thing he could have pulled a Ben Drowned with the "moving away" sale.
And then after shenanigans start he goes back and finds the apartment ransacked, calls the police, and gtfos out of it.
The acting in this series is pretty bad.
when he first walked into simon's place, that geico commercial came on tv with the creepy music box, so i got the ~f u l l e f f e c t~
I just saw a lot of Marble Hornets rip-off moments with worse acting and a preview of Petscop
What bothered me most was the camera footage - I mean, we do know that this shadow man can only be seen by a camera (which is why we see it), but not without it (which is why the two didn'T seem to be bothered by it when it was standingh right next to them) - okay, good, that's good - but unless I have missed something that would imply that they went through AAAAALL the trouble of filiming themselves (at the behest of their doctor/therapist) - but seemingly NEVER REVIEWED them!
Because well... they obviously would have known about the shadow man otherwise - UNLESS the implication would be that WE can see it but not THEY - which wouldn't work EITHER because we do not get even a slight hint of WHY only we would be able to see it (one way of doing that that comes to my mind is having the therapist or someone that randomly saw the footage flip out because of it, show it to them and them going "What do you mean? There's only an empty room/only us sleeping"). So, given that, it stands to reason that, had they watched the footage, they would have seen it - and I do NOT think they would have just kept going on like this, knowing that this thing was right besides their bed multiple times. At the very least I would presume that he would have consulted CHIP about it - he obviously tried getting information from it... but never once did he ask something along the lines of "Umm.... what is that creepy AF shadow man that can onyl be seen through a camera?!?"
i think i'd find the beginning more believable if it had been like. "hey here are some videos my internet friend sent me" and THEN had him go to the house to find it ransacked
Better yet, have him met the friend and have him arrive late and borrow the drive for the night to look at the files they were going to be working on, he comes back in the morning and finds the place ransacked and the friend gone, THEN goes through the other files to see if there's anything there that could indicate what happened.
Without even going beyond the first part, seems like an easy fix could be having this not be there first meeting and maybe the guy gave him the harddrive the last time they met. He shows up for the second meeting and finds the apartment like that. Let's him call the police and not need to steal evidence. Maybe that would ruin what comes later but I dont know
I just discovered your channel by watching your hour long masterpiece about DHMIS. Incredible! I subscribed immediatly, for the amount of effort and work you seem to put on your videos. Congrats! :)
About 5 minutes in I was hoping you were going to discuss the story and elaborate on the mystery, not dive in on immediate criticisms of the creator's poor techniques intermittently in steps.
That said, thanks for shouting out the curious series.
Okay So to be fair, the creator messed up so badly in the Beginning that you kinda have to talk about it.
Yeah, not a fan of using an ARG with only hundreds of views to critique unfiction as a whole. This guy was trying, give him a break.
i do agree with your criticisms aside from the question “where did he get the technology to read a floppy disc in 2016?”
they’re like 20 bucks on amazon and it was clear he was using a usb reader.
Best lunch break ever
@Иван Рожков так оно даже лучше
Honestly, I think the problem was that life got in the way. Maybe they had a falling out or a breakup. A lot of ARGs have that happen.
Nice, i was just thinking i wanted a nightmind video.
Text in text-based DOS games was typically not green. It was typically grey. It was easy to make it green, but you had to go out of your way to make it green.
The fact that the text is green suggests that this program was created after the release of the 1999 film "The Matrix" because the reaction to any program with green text before that would have been, "Why is it green?"
That by itself is actually not far-fetched: there were still DOS programs being made by amateur game developers in the 2000s such as myself and some of them were influenced by the Matrix film. But it does move the program out of the heyday of DOS and into a period when it would have already been seen as "retro" upon its creation.
They probably made this in QBASIC.
Since it came on a floppy rather than on a CD or USB stick I'd put the creation of this game right around 2000-2002. Late enough to have been influenced by the Matrix film but early enough that floppy disks were still in lots of PCs. The creator would have expected people to have been running it in the DOS mode of Windows 98SE or in what limited DOS support Windows XP still had.
The printed out label absolutely checks out though.
I’m not gonna lie: I really want to see you rip into uncreative, incompetent online “horror” projects.
"mom can we get the marble hornets dvd?"
"we have marble hornets at home."
marble hornets at home:
Chip time 1st conversion between boy and girlfriend. They seem like they're acting.
last time i was this early homestuck was a new thing
21:24 "Stop I'm trying to do a tutorial!"
Blake having a weezer shirt is fucking hilarious to me
The PC that Chip Time Disk is laying on is a PowerMac G4 or G3 if I recall correctly, lovingly nicknamed “The Cheesegrater.”
Oooh... how nicely they arranged the lihjt sources!
Also -- looking at 3:28 -- your missing friend is Destin (Sandlin) from "Smarter every day"? Well, got I news for you... ^^