{"id":3436,"date":"2017-12-03T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T16:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=3436"},"modified":"2017-12-03T12:57:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T18:57:21","slug":"carrion-you-are-the-alien-blob-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2017\/12\/carrion-you-are-the-alien-blob-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrion: you are the alien blob monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like fun: in <em>Carrion<\/em>, you play an alien blob monster, hunting and devouring humans in a failing space colony.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/11\/30\/you-are-a-horrifying-amorphous.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In most examples of sci-fi horror, a desperate human protagonist must evade, hunt and vanquish the unspeakable alien creature. But what if you were a horrific amorphous nightmare blob, crawling around the red-cast darkness of a failing space colony in search of prey to devour?<\/p>\n<p>This is the premise of Sebastian Kro\u015bkiewicz&#8217;s &#8220;Carrion&#8221;, and it looks amazing. Part John Carpenter&#8217;s <em>Katamari Damacy<\/em>, part Shoggoth simulator, all gore, the prototype animations depict a claustrophobic industrial scenario with our hero sliming and slorping around its terrified human victims.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s early days, by the looks of it &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I think I&#39;m making a reversed-horror game. The player isn&#39;t gonna be the scared one. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/screenshotsaturday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#screenshotsaturday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/monogame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#monogame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/indiedev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#indiedev<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gamedev?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gamedev<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/carriongame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#carriongame<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2rzoU1ekcp\">pic.twitter.com\/2rzoU1ekcp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sebastian Kro\u015bkiewicz (@gynecomaster) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gynecomaster\/status\/934498381422039040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gynecomaster\">Sebastian Kro\u015bkiewicz&#8217;s Twitter page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like fun: in Carrion, you play an alien blob monster, hunting and devouring humans in a failing space colony. Via Boing Boing: In most examples of sci-fi horror, a desperate human protagonist must evade, hunt and vanquish the unspeakable alien creature. But what if you were a horrific amorphous nightmare blob, crawling around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monsters","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3436\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}