Slender: the Arrival (Midnight City, 2013) Slenderman is a seminal example of creepypasta, a modern urban legend who has been “caught” on video and in photographs. The most notable example is unarguably Slender (now called Slender: The Arrival), which kick-started a little Slenderman fad in the indie horror scene.
They come mostly from individuals dipping their toes into game development, and as a result, they’re often experimental affairs. There aren’t that many of them, but as with all things on the Internet, the number grows by the day. Image: games based on creepypasta stories are not new. Year Walk struck a particular nerve with me because it just might be the perfect example of creepypasta as a video game. There’s a great article by Will Wiles in the online magazine Aeon, in which he describes creepypasta as a modern folk tale and explains that “Creepypasta works best when the medium infects the message - in fact, when the messageboard infects the message and you get a sense of the internet starting to talk about itself ( “Creepypasta is how the Internet learns our fears”, 20 December 2013). On the recently published PopMatters podcast on Year Walk, I compared Simogo’s creepy iOS game to “creepypasta”, a style of Internet storytelling that has become a new kind of campfire tale.
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