Tumblr - Scrimbly Bimbly and the blatant streamer/youtuber bait FNAF ripoff game

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loveletterworm the fact that "hyper-marketable indie horror game aimed at children and youtubers who make videos for children" is like a whole genre now is kinda f----- right like what's up with that loveletterworm Every few months someone makes a game called like Scrimbly Bimbly's Wacky Silly Funhouse where you just kind of walk around a dark room for a bit and theres vaguely spooky writing on the walls like "DONT BELIEVE HIS LIES" and then the main monster of the game looks like this scrimbly ✓ ไ and then within like a week my niece is playing roblox clones of it on her ipad and theres plushies of scrimbly in every gamestop and the devs are on twitter like We';re making a Scrimbly tv show !! And the only person over the age of 7 who has ever thought about their game is the game theory guy because he needs to make a video about how scrimbly connects to the 1962 cuban missile crisis and theres like 80 scrimbly spinoffs that aren't even pretending to be horror games anymore so they're just sort of a normal kid's games with a slightly f----- up looking animal like the concept of "ironic childish imagery in horror game" mutated into "Actually, this is just literally for children, and we are trying to get as much money out of those children as possible"

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Watermelanie

Mar 29, 2023 at 12:24PM EDT

There are precisely two (2) indie horror games:
- Every planet and every star is gone. What's left of the human race is scavenging for resources. You have been locked inside a submarine deep in a sea of blood, and something is trying to get in.
- UH OH! You've been locked inside a Chuck E Cheese reference! Better run before SCRIMBLY DIMBLY blorbs you!
And the second is the one that gets all the attention.

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Mistress Fortune

Mar 29, 2023 at 08:20AM EDT

It's gotten to where TheMeatly, one of the people who helped start the "mascot horror" genre (he was the creator of Bendy and the Ink Machine) is now even making fun of the current state of the genre with a purposely crappy free game he made which features himself as the monster.

It's possible that the backlash to things like Garten of Banban in particular might cause "mascot horror" to take a hiatus in the indie scene for a bit. Thankfully we're now seeing a revival of old school survival horror thanks to the success of games like Signalis and even Capcom going back to their roots with the RE games from RE7 and onward.

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