Some observations on the digestion of dead media matter, VHS television capture, the psychology of broadcast retrieval, and some personal, uncanny confrontations with ‘undead’ channel surfing on video.

Written for the Media Essay Zine Jam.

Engorged in Decker and submitted simultaneously to Deck-Month-3.

ASSETS

Leech image taken from Wikimedia commons.

Uses the MuddyGrass 16 palette.

BROADCASTS REFERENCED

  1. THE BORED WITCH *rare* Found Footage of Lost English Dub
  2. Puttnam's Prairie Emporium Changes, Again ( Episode 26) Partial Video - 1991/11/21 - WOC
  3. CANADIAN TV CHANNEL SURFING - MARCH 27-30 1994 - WOC - 29:30  "Meta channel surfing" - channel surfing scene in sitcom The Second Half.
  4. VHS TV February 9, 1988 - Channel Surfing Canadian TV WOC


More information
Published 1 day ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
AuthorMindApe
GenreInteractive Fiction
Tagsanalog-horror, artgame, Decker, essay, Experimental, hauntology, Horror, No AI, weird, zine
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse

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VideoLeechOfflineHTML.zip 416 kB
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VideoLeech - Unlocked.deck 896 kB
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Video Leech.pdf 1.9 MB

Install instructions

Playable in HTML graphical interface format above in browser. Downloadable in .HTML and .DECK formats for offline play either in a web browser or in native Decker. Also downloadable in a more standard PDF essay format.

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FloconSugar3 hours ago(+1)

i like this zine, both the contents and the presentation :>

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MindApe2 hours ago

Thank you I am really happy the combo of the two worked for you! Was a bit of an experiment 

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queenfaith21 hours ago(+1)

nice
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MindApe19 hours ago

oh, thank you for the creeture feature!

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