The Bizarre World of Fake Video Games

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.

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

"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.

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

"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.

I once created a fake visual novel, complete with gameplay mechanics, that I had running on an imageboard, where people could comment to vote on different choices—I would then illustrate the results. What's especially notable is that the game mechanics for this pretend videogame I'm now implementing into an actual visual novel that I'm working on as part of a team. They're mechanics that haven't ever been done in any visual novels before, and it's all thanks to making a totally fake one first. Edit: I didn't create the "quest format", to be perfectly clear. There's a specific quest I made that has a bit that replicates a visual novel.

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.

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

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

"You drink too much coffee because you don't sleep right and somehow, that makes sense to you" That hit hard.

There was a game released in 1997 called Queen: The Eye - I have never seen or played this game, never met another soul who's even heard of it, but for some reason my dad had a book about it. The book was full of concept art, level designs, commentary, and I used to spend hours reading over it as a child, imagining what the game was like. This video just made all those memories and feelings come rushing back.

As an almost completely uncredited artist, I find this video to be brilliant. It is a massive credit to you that you took the time to shine a light on the work of these amazing artists and their little slices of genius. The time you spent on this video is the furthest thing from a waste. Great work, you’ve won a fan here.

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.

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👌

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.

This channel is like finding water in the desert

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.

I still think the fake persona 5 story is really interesting and cool mainly because of how easily we got fooled back then compared to now

I will always be here for a video of John going down the deepest rabbit hole I have ever seen and at the bottom when you think there's nowhere else to go, he will pull out a shovel and show you what true depths are