The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games

This channel is like finding water in the desert

Making "fake videogames" is actually an amazing way as an artist to build a portfolio. If you can show up to a game studio with a fully fleshed out portfolio of a concept game, it's almost always highly impressive. There's also always the chance of them liking the idea so much that they want to make it real.

"Some of you are too young to understand what I'm talking about. Don't worry... You will." Has got to be one of the most villain ass lines I've heard come out of John's mouth.

"Even gods suffer and die here, and you are no god." is a line that goes so unimaginably hard.

"If Vermice was real, I don't know how fun it would be" - the guy who loves Fear and Hunger

“The last hour and twenty minutes have just been one long introduction” also known as the “HBomberguy gambit”

I miss manuals so much. I'm playing through Metal Gear Solid 1 for the first time and just had Baker tell me "I can't remember Meryl's Codec frequency... it should be on the back of the CD case!" and I laughed out loud at how cool that was, mixing the physical media with the game itself. You can't get away with that now that most things are going digital.

"Go. Build those worlds so that I can walk around in them." struck me as a particularly uplifting and motivating line. So often with artists it's their own self-doubt that stops them from creating things they otherwise dream of creating, and having someone encouraging you to go do that thing because they want to experience it is just... really nice to hear, I hope any artists like these take that message to heart.

just wanted to let you know that Tumblr recently started to sell its data to midjourney and other ai companies, which has lead to a lot of tumblr artists to either private their art blogs or delete them. It might be why the blog appeared to not exist when you looked it up.

In a weird way, this makes me sad. I wish people had more freetime of their own, that they could sustain themselves in our world. How much creativity weve been denied, how much art, experiences, music, technologies, will never be made because we arent given the freedom to.

One of my favorite parts about buying games as a kid was reading the manuals that came with the cases on the way back home. There was something about even just reading the controls that I always enjoyed

The Vermis books actually got me to write a report on authenticity and familiarization in art for a university assignment last year. The concept of art that presents itself as non-art or authentic art of a different kind (like found footage movies or, well, Vermis) is super intriguing to me, and I’m beyond excited for this video

"I worry that the topic is too niche, and that not many people besides me will care about it." This is coming from a man that made a half-hour video about his technical problems with a dell computer interesting.

Hi, I'm the writer of Playing Along with Evelyn. Thank you for involving my pasta as an example!

I have no idea if I'm the first person to say this, or if you'll even read this, but: This artform is literally "This is not a pipe" of the modern era. This is quickly becoming one of my favorite video essays on this website, it goes from being about fake video games to about art and mediums as a whole, while still staying on topic the whole time. Art that comments on the concept of art, being applied to a more modern artform/medium and utilizing the aspects of that medium that make it comparatively unique This feels like documentation and recognition of an art movement, of a turning point in art history :) Maybe I am up-playing the societal importance of the art within this video but like. Idk, it's just really good.

I've seen a lot of indie games that emulate the PS1 style in the last few years, especially in the horror genre, but almost all of them are very technically anachronistic with high res textures, dynamic lighting, and similar features that were impossible on the hardware level. So I'm absolutely smitten with the amount of faithful detail in GHOSTBLEED. It's really something else and I'm grateful that you've shown it.

"The worst game you have played is a miracle" is a heck of a line, sir

I was falling asleep to another video and my cat leaned on the volume just as autoplay got this video started. I was promptly screeched at by a man in a wizard costume about video games. What a way to greet the day.

As an artist who frickin loves world building, while having this video in the background, I’ve just been creating a whole new world for myself that is, cool enough, kind of like a “fake game” (even though it’s just little illustrations). Very inspiring and interesting video, thank you for taking the time to make a video like this👌

Fake video games are neat.