Errant Signal (Chris Franklin)+

Spinning LPs for NPCs in Wax Heads

Wax Heads - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/Wax_Heads/

Pixel Precision and Lonely Platformer Vibes in Derelict Star

Derelict Star: https://gate.itch.io/derelict-star https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/Derelict_Star/ Article Version Here: https://medium.com/errant-signal/derelict-star-ecc5369ad274

Corpus Edax: Bar Brawls as Physical Comedy

Let's take a look at Corpus Edax, a game that I fell hard for despite its rough edges: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2017610/CORPUS_EDAX/

Fryin' Up Some Arctic Eggs

Tryin' something a little different - a shorter standalone Blips episode that has an accompanying text version (here: https://medium.com/errant-signal/arctic-eggs-ludic-comfort-food-c0d683b34bbd ). The TL;DR is that I've been playing a lot of *really* cool indie games lately, but you wouldn't know it from looking at this channel. So I've been looking for a means of getting smaller, shorter, quicker to produce videos out the door, and this is experiment #1 with that. I managed to put the post and video together basically over a weekend, which is really really fast for me considering *gestures

SHODAN is back! System Shock 2 leads Children of Doom: 1999!

Hey! I'm still alive! And it's 1999! And we're talking first person game! Again! So let's walk down memory lane and play some weird 4:3 first person titles and talk about them! 00:00 System Shock 2 36:13 Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament 44:56 Kingpin 52:07 Requiem: Avenging Angel 58:10 Medal of Honor 1:02:53 SWAT 3 1:09:37 Alien vs Predator 1:13:49 Wheel of Time 1:19:56 Outro

The Lethal Comedy of Zeekerss' Lethal Company

Lethal Company is the latest viral internet multiplayer sensation popular among streamers and kids! But also... it's kind of rad? 00:00 Intro 00:54 Lethal Company 08:13 Learning about Zeekerss 09:47 It Steals 14:49 Dead Seater 19:46 The Upturned 24:45 Conclusion

Taking Calls Live on the Scarewaves in Killer Frequency

A short, spooky (but not that spooky!) Halloween video for this year. Let's go to the lines, shall we? Caller one, you're on.

How System Shock's Reboot Wrestles With Adapting Its Legacy

How much of a game's identity is tied up in its rough edges? What do you gain by smoothing those edges away? What do you lose? System Shock (1994) and System Shock (2023) serve as a nice case study for this line of thought. While 1994's System Shock is a seminal work whose impact echoes through to today it's also a game a lot of people simply refuse to play given its archaic input systems and low-fi graphics. Meanwhile, 2023's System Shock wants to bring the game to The People - but that means hammering a game that's full of awkward-but-interesting choices into something a bit more conventio

Children of Doom 1998: Half-Life

1998 sure did happen! And there were video games all up in it! So let's talk about way too many of them! It's weird to have watched this series change: what started as a time filler in between "bigger" essays has itself become one of the biggest projects in scope I've ever done. And what started as talking about one game each year has slowly become more and more about looking about each year in context and cross-comparing what was going on. I think this is more useful and interesting, but it is also undeniably more resource and time intensive to produce. Hopefully the results continue to

Of Fops and Flops: Cheating the Aristocracy in Card Shark

Yeah, I know "fop" traditionally refers to an English or American dandy and not specifically eighteenth century French aristocracy, but you try writing an eye-grabbing title for a YouTube video about cheating Voltaire out of five bucks in today's economy. Card Shark is available on Steam/Epic/GOG: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1371720/Card_Shark/ And the Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/card-shark-switch/

The Company Intro Cinematic Universe is Bad

Marvel came up with a really neat corporate logo splash! And then people started ripping it off...

Let's Tidy Up: A Little to the Left

A short video about a lil' game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/1629520/A_Little_to_the_Left/ A Little to the Left is also available on the Switch!

Sometimes The Bodies Talk Back: The Mortuary Assistant

The Mortuary Assistant is a scary game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1295920/The_Mortuary_Assistant/

Exploring Nightmares in Hypnagogia

The first Halloween episode is out, if very belatedly! This is the less scary one! It's about Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams, and some of the cool spooky scenes there in! Check out Soda Raptor's stuff: https://sodaraptor.itch.io/

TikTok: Life on the Algorithm

Let's talk about the hottest platform people over 35 don't seem to use. Hank Green's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZapFzpP64 Sarah Z's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCi4CSqtzw 00:00 Intro 03:00 What the heckin' heck is TikTok 08:25 Life on the Algorithm 19:04 Content One TikTok At A Time 31:04 Immoderate Moderation 35:59 Monetization 39:42 Warhol's Curse 47:41 Why Should We Care?