Comments on: The First Encounter

By: cary

cary — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 13:39:30 +0000

Thanks! It’s a great game, and the spider adds to the tension despite its creepiness. (This reminds me that I must, must play Okami someday!)

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Mon, 27 Oct 2014 01:37:06 +0000

I enjoyed this poem muchly, and I especially like your rhymes in the last stanza. I then had no choice but to check out the spider on the Internet. It is indeed creepy. I hate spiders. Especially those larger than me. (Like the Spider Queen in Okami.) That game looks interesting. I might need to check it out now.

By: cary

cary — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:25:38 +0000

Thanks! It’s silly, but that spider… :::shivers::: …still not awesome to face.

By: C. T. Murphy

C. T. Murphy — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:47:47 +0000

I think this is my favorite.

By: cary

cary — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:00:39 +0000

Reblogged this on Recollections of Play and commented:

United We Game’s celebration of Halloween surges onward with our Spooky Silly Poetry Contest! Now’s a great time to write up a quick, little (or large) poem about your favorite scary game and submit to United We Game. (Email your entries to [email protected].) We’re collecting your poems through October 31st, and next month, we’re going to vote on our favorite! That one person will be crowned, in the name in fun, the poet supreme of spooky silly games!

Look, if I can write a poem, anyone on the planet can. And I’m supporting the spirit of the contest with my own attempts at writing verse and such. Here’s one I recently posted about game LIMBO and the first encounter with its infamous spider.

By: cary

cary — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:51:53 +0000

Haha, thanks! The atmosphere in that game was like another character – it played a role all too important in making everything seem a lot worse than it was (maybe). I am not a big fan of spiders at all, so you’re not kidding about being haunted. I still have to finish the game, but I worry quite a bit about having to face that spider again.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 01:04:10 +0000

Love what you did with that scene Cary, it makes the scene sound nice an pleasant instead one that inspired ludicrous amount of creepy-crawly unease! Even once the thing was defeated it creeped me out! Those movements and sounds it made…they still haunt me… :(