#silt game

[thewandererh]

🔦SILT : overview, experience, and doodle

recently finished SILT after getting interested through a video essay! the game’s steam description is this:

SILT is a surreal underwater puzzle-adventure game. Alone in an underwater abyss, you are a diver searching the deep to uncover long-forgotten mysteries. Possess the creatures around you to solve puzzles and travel further into the darkness…

the game explores this concept in a sketchy monochromatic style and thought-provoking puzzles. the possession mechanic adds an interesting layer to puzzles unlike stuff i’ve seen before! there’s lots of lore scattered around as statues, cutscenes, and machinery you encounter throughout the game. each of the 4 main areas to explore has its own level of lighting, flora & fauna, puzzle mechanics, and a unique boss that tests the mechanics you learned in that area. an atmosphere of tense underwater discovery is layered on quite well throughout the game, too! the monstrous creature design, droning ambience, sound, and visual style got me immersed real good and helps build tension!

while playing, i headcanoned the diver as an annoyed little man frustrated by his minimum-wage weekly struggles. this may be a thalassaphobic nightmare for you, but it’s just another tuesday for him.

i recommend checking it out! it’s rated mostly positive and is an interesting experience! very good to analyze lore-wise :].

epilepsy warning: there’s no rapid flashing from what i remember, but there are some changes from black to white in cutscenes that could bother some players! examples include big white spinning glyphs that appear as expected triggers at expected times, really bright cinematic moments in-between levels, and maybe some other ambient stuff. nothing too pulse-y that jumped out at me. the choice is yours though!

[frankensteinmutual]

Signalis (2022) [H.P. Lovecraft, The Festival] /Sagittarius A* / Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates / Outer Wilds (2020) / Is There a God-Shaped Hole at the Heart of Mathematics? / Drain for overflowing water at Sambuco Dam, Lavizzara Valley / ? / Thomasin Frances, Hole Theory (15/10/2022) / Bryan’s Ground, a public garden in Herefordshire on the Welsh border. / odd, weird, strange and unusual / Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves / Evil (2019-2014) / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / Illustration of the Annular Eclipse of 1836 from “A fourteen weeks course in descriptive astronomy”, Joel Dorman Steele (1836-1886) / @imdad_barbhuyan on Instagram / The moon’s Copernicus crater. Through magic glasses. 1890. / Kaveh Akbar / Dune (2021) / x / Dmitry Kochanovich, Epiphany (Russian,b. 1972) / The Silt Verses, Chapter 41: But As My Last Breath Splits My Throat / Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, The Camp is a Bait for Time / Darina Muravjeva, Hole / Hilde Heynen in Heterotopia and the City / x / Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers / x /  Louise Glück, from Descending Figure / Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay. / Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried; from “A Letter To Love” / Lara de Moor, Orb (2014) / Sam Sax, Pig / The National - Wake Up Your Saints / Aleksander Rostov / Sanna Wani, from “Princess Mononoke (1997)”, My Grief, the Sun / Gregory Orr, [i want to go back] / Thomas Ott / ? / Judas H., Overflowing With Empty / James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room / Massive sinkhole swallows house in Florida / Edna St Vincent Millay, in Letters (1952) /Silent Hill 4 (2004) / @/vren-diagram / Anne Boyer, What Resembles the Grave But Isn’t / Law of Holes / Scarlet Hollow (2021) / China Miéville, from Railsea

(part one)

[nerevar-near-and-far]

Stages of Morrowind fast travel awareness :

1. Oh god the rumors were true, there's no fast travel

2. Oh the Silt Striders

3. Huh, there's also boats and the guild guides and intervention spells

4. Where the fucking hell did intervention send me this time. Why is it Ald'ruhn when I was almost on top of Gnisis

5. Mark and Recall HELL YEAH

6. I can barely contain this spaghetti bowl of possible connections in my brain. I have a London taxi cab driver's knowledge of Vvardenfell at this point but I still always end up passing through Ald'ruhn somehow. Vivec City can cry about how important they are all they want. Ald'ruhn is Grand Central Station of this island

7. CHIM

[redhairedfish]

weeeeeeeeewooooooo my old TES arts

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Balmora - pre-release screen

Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

*Credit Unknown* If anyone knows the specific dev to credit comment below

[mr-mitosis]

My life has become a tapestry of gay and horror podcasts

[thatstargazingaquarius]

I narrowed down the suggestions to ten because holy crap I didn’t expect that many dear god but thanks to all of you that gave them <3 I’ll start whichever wins sometime this week

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[new-hyperfixation-every-month]

8 12 and 23 for the artist ask game!

ibring lots of goodies >:)

8) show 2-3 drawings from 1-2 years ago

errrr all i could think of were these sydney doodles from last year bc i think they still hold up today so Behold

12) draw one of your favorite characters in under 15 seconds

TINY FAULKNER WAS ALL I COULD MANAGE AHAH he looks so empty without his freckles and scar 😭😭

23) draw your fav as a vampire

super quick sketch but carp vamp......save me carp vamp......carp vamp save me.......

[catwyk]

23 for the artist ask game!!

23: draw my fav as a vampire!

tablet started working just in time for a very quick vampire faulkner 🙏🙏🙏 its been a while since i last did a quick and loose sketchless painting :]

[the-elder-polls]

I'm considering getting borrowing BUT I'm. I'm really bad at finding my way around in games and I've heard it doesn't have quest markers?

I get lost very easily even in games with maps etc and appreciate when there's instructions.

Do you think morrowind would be just too, idk, frustrating? I want to know The Lore(tm) and am a big dunmer fan but if the game will just give me a headache then maybe I'll settle for reading the lore

i'm gonna assume that autocorrect didn't like "morrowind" lol

personally, i also get lost very easily in games (and irl to be honest) but i was able to navigate morrowind without much issue. it does give you directions, just not quest markers. you gotta read and listen to what npcs tell you. the game will also usually tell you in your journal something along the lines of "go til you see [xyz], then turn right and go straight til you see [zyx]". that's how it navigates you about and it generally worked well for me. (also, online guides can help you if you get really lost. the game is older than methuselah, there's SO many guides available.)

the dialogue is so fun to explore, the characters are really fun, and the lore is absolutely delicious. the game is butt ugly by modern standards (you can mod it, if that's your style -- personally the butt ugly graphics really grew on me and quit bothering me surprisingly fast), combat is hilariously awkward and weird and honestly bad, and cliff racers exist. (you will understand my hatred of cliff racers if you play. yes, they are a negative point all on their own.)

also worth noting, you better really like to read. 99% of this game is reading. i love this part, i find it very fun, but i know it's not everyone's style.

i will always recommend morrowind, though always with the disclaimer that if you try it out and learn it just isn't for you, that's okay! the lore is cataloged online for that exact reason. :] no pressure either way.

[mercuryandmoonpods]

late to this but my top podcasts were Rusty Quill Gaming, Where The Stars Fell, Spirit Box Radio, Not Quite Dead, and The Silt Verses! i'd love to know what yours were + if there's anything i should listen to based on my own top 5 :) send me a star and i'll rec you smth too! - asha

[sweeetestcurse]

Silt 02/??

[humanteethmarksonhumanbone]

so does marco polo canonically exist in the silt verses universe?

[elderscrollsconceptart]

Gnisis Silt Strider dock - pre-release screen

Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

*Credit Unknown* If anyone knows the specific dev to credit comment below

[pinkelotjeart]

6 and 7 for the ask game !!

6.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would be friends?

You’re immediately giving me one’s I feel like I have to think about hmm.

Jedidiah (camp here and there) and Carlos (welcome to nightvale) two nerdy ass scientist boys. I’m extending that to their boyfriend/husband aswel, because Sydney and Cecil would get along great too with their brand or weirdness. Both podcasts have a similar vibe to me and I honestly believe they take place in the same universe so they’d get along.

7.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would hate each other?

This one is even harder, cus there’s plenty to choose from… I’ve jokingly made comics of Jonathan Sims and Carpenter hanging out cus I think they’re too similar that they’d start to annoy eachother reaalll quickly.

But I’m trying to think of who you could stick in a room together and not even a second later a fight will break out. Mike Walters with like anyone would end badly I think😭

Yeah let’s throw Mike Walters in with Celia Ripley, time traveler vs dimension traveler, see what happens idk janshsnshjw