Au Sable is messing with my head

It's 2am and I've spent the last hour or so playing through a little indie game called Au Sable.

I'd like to think it was made by the devil to mess with my head... but it's made by this one guy named Amon Desiree... or Amon26 to the internet.

I'm really not sure if it's the hour, or the games crazy black and red graphics in the game... or the insane amount of coffee I've consumed tonight. But I feel creeped out, a little disturbed and totally amazed.


I am a huge fan of horror games... plus I love them old school platform shooters. Au Sable successfully delivers up the goods to satisfy my thrust for both.

Graphically Au Sable is very simple yet beautifully stylized. Though I use the word "Beautiful" very sparingly, because the shades and shapes that are mixed to bring Au Sable to life, make for a game that is a lot darker than it's graphics. In fact, I was a bit taken back by the level of dark imagery and atmospher the game strives to achieve.

This game really goes to show that you don't need flashy hardware braking graphics to deliver the chills.

Because with very surreal and well placed visual/ audio ques... this little monster was actually giving me little scares.

Like walking up to a bridge that suddenly turns into a bloody water fall with you plummeting down the side, before snapping back to a bridge with you walking harmless across it.


Or how about walking up to a tree that turns into a huge shadowy creature, with a girl's lifeless body hanging off one of the branches... then suddenly you see that there is no tree, and that your standing on some ledge.

And all this is just in the first few moments of the game. Don't get me started on the crazy fun you start to have when you get your hands on a gun.

Maybe I'm just a cheap sucker for this kinda stuff... but this is one game I think you should defiantly check out if you're looking for something interesting.

Hats off to the guy who made it for sharing his nightmare with us, I hope you sleep well tonight... cause I know I won't :P

Check out this write up on Au Sable over at Destructoid... along with a link to a download of the game at the bottom of the article.

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile

If I don't play this I might die.

Scooby's Zombie apocalypse

Check out this awesome art from Travis Pitts. I'd saw off an arm to see this kind of a re-boot of Scooby Doo.

Here play this

You need to press [Space] and then click where it says [Press Space]

Soundless Mountain: pure 8bit scares

I love my emulators...

I have spent countless hours playing through the likes of the Splatter House series, Castlevania, Doom troopers and shizz load of other titles. All the titles I could only dream of having as a kid... I now "own."

That said... last night I came across something interesting.

I play a lot of indie games and I'm always visiting the indie game sites and downloading new games to keep me busy. Every now and then I do a search for "indie Horror games", which doesn't usually always yield much.

But tonight I got me a little title called "Soundless Mountain 2"

What is it? It's a 2D, NES-ish version of Silent Hill 2


I read up a bit about it on Destructoid, and I found out that it was meant to be part of a 'de-making' competition. Which is exactly what it sounds like.

I decided to give the game ago, because I personally am starving for retro looking horror games. It started out nice... I thought the music was good, the interface was very simple.

But the moment I picked up that damn busted transistor radio... and I heard that crackling. This game became the shizz.

I felt like I was taken back in time, to when I would sit inches away from my tv screen, playing the likes Frankenstein and Ghosts and Ghouls. Except unlike those games... this was genuinely creepy. After awhile, I started looking past the 8 bit graphics and just got caught up in it.


The developer did a sweet job of capturing the original Silent Hill 2's feel. What Soundless Mountain lacks in graphics, it defiantly makes up for in everything else. It comes of as more than just a novelty, and really does stand out as a good game. If this thing had come out at the height of NES games, it would have made kids piss their pants.

Now granted this may not be every ones idea of a good time, but the best thing is that it's free. You can grab your self a download here.

There's an interview with Jasper Byrne, the guy who made the game, over at DeadLantern.com