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Spooky Contest Winner

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Well the time has come to announce the winner our little Spooky-Scary Poetry Contest. We had several excellent entries submitted but there couold only be one Spooky Champion of Silly Prose, and that would be: C.T. Murphy, who authored Ocean House Hotel!

Here it is again for your reading pleasure:
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The First Seventeen Minutes of DOOM 3

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Image by Flickr user Javier Domínguez Ferreiro

I played DOOM. I played DOOM II. Both games were simply tremendous. I’ve repeatedly tried to play DOOM 3 since getting an Xbox copy of the game years ago, but…I…can’t. Oh believe me, I’ve tried repeatedly, but I have a really hard time getting past the game’s first stage because it’s just too much. Too scary, too stressful, too dismal, too everything. So for my final spooky silly poem (there’s still time to submit your entries!), I give you this testament to admitting that I’m a big scaredy-cat when it comes to DOOM 3.

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No Turning Back Now

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The Fullbright Company – https://www.thefullbrightcompany.com [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Gone Home isn’t exactly a BOO! SCARY game, but for me it was unsettling enough to unlock a host of personal unpleasantries. Sometime the worst fears are the ones were harbor rather than the ones we face. With that in mind, here’s my third addition to UWG’s spooky silly celebration (we’re collecting contest entries through 10/31!) about Gone Home‘s first moments.

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That Fell Tome of Unending Shadow

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October marches on and so does our Spooky-Silly Poetry Contest! I still may not be able to enter myself, playing the role of a poet-gamer has just been too enjoyable to stop just yet! With that in mind I’m psyched to present another work penned in honor of our little contest: That Fell Tome of Unending Shadow. Inspired by another game I’m looking forward to one day finishing: Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem! Continue reading That Fell Tome of Unending Shadow

Spooky-Silly Poetry Contest: Week 3!

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Our little contest is now firmly underway with three weeks to its name thus far! Just two more to go and then it will finally be time for us all to cast our votes and decide who shall be crowned the Spooky Champion of Silly Poetry! This week’s entry comes from Chip of Games I Made My Girlfriend Play and is titled: Vendetta . But first, a little intro from the poet themselves: Continue reading Spooky-Silly Poetry Contest: Week 3!