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The Narrative and Worldbuilding of Bloodborne: Part 1
For most people, the narratives of FromSoftware’s games are (understandably) treated as kind of a joke. I don’t think anyone denies that an incredible amount of time and care is put into building these stories, but when unearthing them involves deciphering the purposely cryptic description text of a necklace hidden in some god-forsaken niche in
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Occult Reading List: Taschen’s “H.R. Giger”
Recently, I’ve been reading Taschen’s H.R. Giger, and I’ve really been enjoying it! I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on it, as a writer and worldbuilder. My first encounter with H.R. Giger came in high school, when my friend Joel (the same person that created the artwork of body modification styles in the
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What Is “Black Heaven: A Necromantic Dating Sim”?
If you’re new to the world of OROBORO and the Occult Triangle Lab, you’re probably thinking something like: Dark fantasy—cool. Body horror—cool. Worldbuilding—cool. What’s all this about a dating sim? Black Heaven: A Necromantic Dating Sim was one of the Lab’s first major projects (and our first successful Kickstarter). It’s a psychological horror dating sim,
