Ahh thank you so much for checking out the game!! Spookware has come a long way and we're still working on it! It's really fun to play around with the formula in new ways and I love that you went into the history of our experiments so far! Actually, for halloween we just released a free collection of all these titles in the video on itch. It's called SPOOKWARE: WATCH PARTY for those interested :)
@ErrantSignal
2 жыл бұрын
Haha, I *just* now noticed that was a thing and added it to the links below the video. Thanks for making an adorable and fun spooky title!
@MurkonTrow
2 жыл бұрын
Ladies and gentlemen he finally did it. He made a video without saying 'per se.'
@eurothug4000
2 жыл бұрын
god I love SpookWare so much
@NoNameAtAll2
2 жыл бұрын
I like returning to your channel each time, errant
@christianswanson3016
2 жыл бұрын
Pointing at the tv, whispering to my partner as i put this on: "That's Errant."
@Furore2323
2 жыл бұрын
Every episode is something fresh and fun, we're genuinely lucky to have you.
@Harukurochan
2 жыл бұрын
“Spookware” is probably one of my favourite new games of the year, so I’m really glad to see it getting some love on your channel. I knew it started as a title on itch, but I wasn’t aware of the full in-depth history of it, so thank you for including that!
@ignatshow
2 жыл бұрын
*spooky voice* H E L L Y E A H
@Jlerpy
2 жыл бұрын
Now that's jazz!
@tomsko863
2 жыл бұрын
Very in-depth look at what on the surface looks like a throw-away game. I am very impressed at how clever the developers were at marrying the two genres together and making what seems like a very cohesive game. Great job Errant!
@JohnGottschalk
2 жыл бұрын
The first version looked the best to me actually xD the more gruesome direction, more set in horror, rather than just... bongos in a skeleton theme. I'm sure the new version is fun too, but probably more as just a goofy game to be put next to other games featuring skeletons like Grim Fandango and Undertale, rather than in the horror section.
@timothymclean
2 ай бұрын
I don't want to contradict your opinion, but I don't think the first SpookWare was horror proper. It's aesthetically horrific, but without any substance behind it, because it's _really hard_ to build dread from a series of disconnected microgames, and the devs didn't seem to prioritize horror over the microgames. It's fine as a two-minute game jam project, but there's no way that it could be expanded without losing what semblance of horror it had. Playing the same game for 15 or 50 times as long as the original would make the dissonance between aesthetic and substance more notable; either you have a bunch of microgames with an increasingly ill-fitting aesthetic, feeling like a horror poseur rather than an earnest fun time, or you have a horror game which is fragmented into bits that can't effectively build tension for more than ten seconds. Neither compromise is ideal.
@Mossmyr
2 жыл бұрын
Matthew Matosis did an excellent bit on WarioWare in his piece "Mega Micro Videos"
@GmodPlusWoW
2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, SpookWare. That brings me back to the days of Dread X Collections.
@alfie3586
2 жыл бұрын
You say that as if they are so old lmao, DONT MAKE ME FEEL OLD YET
@QuintessentialWalrus
2 жыл бұрын
All the SpookWare games just have absolutely perfect aesthetics, don't they?
@Gledster
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent video as always. I love how you find games and online communities that I've never even thought existed cause I don't move in those worlds. Thanks.
@empatheticrambo4890
Жыл бұрын
Here from Accented Cinema! I don’t like horror games but I do like learning about games I wouldn’t play for the sake of my curiosity
@MyBroSux24
2 жыл бұрын
The Steam Spookware demo includes all instances of the itchIO and dread XP into one stand alone playable appetizer
@ThrillhouseToTheMax
2 жыл бұрын
I was a huge fan of Warioware Touched on the DS and this looks really fun. Thanks for introducing it to me.
@Heavy-P
2 жыл бұрын
Man, you convinced me I should play those spooky games
@Artersa
2 жыл бұрын
Love your Halloween content! Love your videos generally, one of my tops on this site.
@gordongraham2064
2 жыл бұрын
Ahh! Happy Halloween! I was afraid we weren't going to get a spooky video this year! This was delightful.
@nickbooze9766
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely took any SOUL from the game in the full release.
@LukeTheFantasticMii
2 жыл бұрын
Great job with telling the history of spookware. Most people didn't know that spookware was a game jam game, and other thought spookware originated from dread x collection3
@ask5118
2 жыл бұрын
You are one of the best gaming channels on KZitem by a country mile
@diale13
2 жыл бұрын
Return of the king
@bw000m
2 жыл бұрын
this has been on my maybe list for a bit, now its a for sure!
@vgrezende
2 жыл бұрын
Great choice of a game for the video. Definitely made me want to check it out
@CHWM11
2 жыл бұрын
I originally watched a KZitemr play the Dread X Spookware and loved it, and when a friend of mine said they were gonna stream the full SpookWare game I was stoked. I hadn’t realized however that they had spun it out into a more adventure game, and I kinda missed the fast-paced WarioWare take. Your video makes me realize more what it was doing instead of “why isn’t it like thing before I liked that thing!” I feel like I need to give it a second chance!
@TheArkhamjester
2 жыл бұрын
The musical level seems to lean closer to the Rhythm Heaven games (also by the Wario Ware team) then Wario Ware proper.
@GrimboBrimbo
2 жыл бұрын
Liking immediately for the title
@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm
2 жыл бұрын
The Church of the Algorithm gives this video its blessing, and must it stay clear of the blasphemers from The First Algorithmic Temple (and the many people impersonating their members).
@Hel1mutt
2 жыл бұрын
HAIL!!! HAIL!!! Hail the mighty and dreadful Algorithm! may engagement be ever in your favor! May the likes pour down like the blood from my eyes! (no eyes were harmed in the making of this comment)
@Niekpas1
2 жыл бұрын
Your videos are so fucking good, thanks errant and happy halloween
@rocko7711
2 жыл бұрын
I hope you had a wonderful Halloween
@heyitsmort7744
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the recommendation! These look like a delight. May pick the latest on up for my WW fanboy friend
@diegowushu
2 жыл бұрын
That's some cool artstyle.
@torreykat
2 жыл бұрын
I hate that I missed this. But I'm here now! 🎉
@a.dennis4835
2 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, Errant. This video is depressing in its own way.
@meloncat1997
2 жыл бұрын
probably bad for your watch time, but I closed the video mid way and went ahead and bought spookware standalone on steam and it was pretty delightful!
@Qobp
2 жыл бұрын
There's never a bad errant signal vid!
@DenpaKei
2 жыл бұрын
I just picked this game up. Its incredible
@orijimi
2 жыл бұрын
lol 10:16 Someone really did the pipe minigame and just used sharkbites.
@FlashMeterRed
2 жыл бұрын
I can't be the only one that just doesn't jump at jump scares. Does it mean my hearing is getting worse?
@JohnnyEscopeta
2 жыл бұрын
I was about to send you a message on Twitter Chris, asking for our yearly Halloween special!
@SEGAClownboss
2 жыл бұрын
This game is so funny
@TapDat52K
2 жыл бұрын
I saw another video on this game. But I had no idea on it’s history.
@Ikcatcher
2 жыл бұрын
You should really give The Official Pancakes Game Show, it’s also a horror comedy and is basically just wacky nonsense
@agemoz
2 жыл бұрын
HelloWare
@Mario-ui9ww
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks u too
@tsartomato
2 жыл бұрын
but how is tv with vhs is related to school or music band skuemorphism
@Roooobb
2 жыл бұрын
what *if* WarioWare but skeletons????
@willhart2188
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@willhart2188
2 жыл бұрын
@@Dwarfplayer But I know the game. Also now I've watched the video too.
@Alkerae
2 жыл бұрын
So, somebody caught lightning in a bottle with a short and sweet genuinely neat idea with good execution, and then wondered how they could make their whole career about this... the correct answer was "don't", like, turning warioware into an adventure game isn't solving the problem of minigame repetitiveness, it's distracting away from it, and I couldn't help but be sad the whole episode as the charm was quickly and painfully bled out from the game because whoever made it just didn't want to let go of the one home run they hit.
@BorysBT
2 жыл бұрын
Spook'o'ween gaming time! 🎃
@gameboy772
2 жыл бұрын
What game is that in the very beginning, in the dark rainy house?
@dstubby82
2 жыл бұрын
Hello old friend. :)
@HoneyCMB
2 жыл бұрын
May the Algorithm bless this channel with its views and promotion
@anshiel
2 жыл бұрын
nice
@planescaped
2 жыл бұрын
I keep thinking this channel died... >__>
@SECONDQUEST
2 жыл бұрын
Hello am fish
@ShinoSarna
2 жыл бұрын
Oh hell yeah, a new Errant Signal
@pocketjoe
2 жыл бұрын
anyone got that ending song
@ErrantSignal
2 жыл бұрын
It's the menu music from SpookWare @ The Video Store
@pocketjoe
2 жыл бұрын
@@ErrantSignal damn i think that's the final sell on the game for me!
@ErrantSignal
2 жыл бұрын
Just remember it's the music from SpookWare @ The Video Store, not the retail release! It's all music by Viktor Kraus, whose soundtrack rocks, but the song you're into in particular can be found either in the Dread X Collection III or the (free!) SpookWare Watch Party ( papercookies.itch.io/spookware-watch-party )
@Dayglodaydreams
2 жыл бұрын
You make videos sporadically, only once a month or so...you're still working on the Golden Eye video I assume. In the mean time (if you get the time), there is this filk artist (filk is folk for the sci fi and fantasy novel/movie/tv show communities...but the songs can be about other things too), named Leslie Fish that did a song about Gamers (roleplaying, tabletop, and computer) getting attacked by the Secret Service, FBI, Fundamentalists. It's of a different era (2012 at the latest, but it was a time when gaming were changing), it could have been written 10 years earlier (and might have). Innuendo Studios won't touch it. You could do a short about it.
@thesii213
2 жыл бұрын
woooooh new Errant Signal
@tsartomato
2 жыл бұрын
"hidden object visual novels" if you are reffering to HOPAs they are not visual novels and inside the adventure umbrella they are mechanically and narratively superior to point and click style while reducing all puzzles to the assortment of classic physical puzzle mechanics is artificial, that's no less artificial than resident evil or prince of persia design. and moon logic puzzles are the worst, it's better to solve another slider than be stuck on obtuse nonsense that makes no sence from the 80s
@itezel2
2 жыл бұрын
turn on anti-aliasing when recording games, holy shit
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