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‘Don’t worry! I’m a murderer!’ - award-winning comedy Anthology of the Killer is out next weekCrime zone
Crime zone
Image credit:Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy
Image credit:Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy
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Anthology of the Killer (Trailer)
In the first of the nine-part series, protagonist BB is an employee of a life insurance call centre where everyone wears sheets over their head. When you sit at BB’s desk to work, the usual office chatter slows to a haunting warble, like listening to a cassette tape submerged in a bathtub of jam. A TV in the break room is set to a news channel reporting that 1000 bodies have been found somewhere (“Same news as always,” remarks BB.) In the printer room a sign yells: “Remember! We don’t pay out if the corpse is unidentifiable!” When you walk into the complaints department, the doors lock behind you. What follows is… well, I’ll let you figure it out.
Image credit:Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy
In today’s tempest of game releases, small games sometimes slip past our ever-watchful eyes. So it’s a good thing Gillmurphy got in touch with RPS to let us know the murder mystery compilation was due out soon.
“I believe the concept of ‘death’ will be a big hit with the readership,” he said, “as why else would they be playing video games.”
A valid observation. I am interested in this innovative approach.
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Stephen “thecatamites” Gillmurphy
Gillmurphy calls the murderthon a “comparatively straight narrative”, somewhat underselling his skill as one of the homegrown scene’s most creative storytellers. Playing through thecatamites work after a long time of consuming clinically polished “story rich” blockbusters is like having the language centers of your brain treated with a batch of medicinal maggots. It looks horrible! But once the maggots roll away, holy shit, what a sparkling temporal lobe you’ve got. It is writing as a controlled explosion, but the detonator is one of those fake Pringles cans with a spring snake inside. Text as the rediscovery of a forgotten species that doesn’t quite match the other amphibians, but yes, is (probably?) still a frog. It’s worth reading his musings onart as a lucky bag, if nothing else.
One might say I am exaggerating, or that thecatamites' writing is an acquired taste, but you may easily acquire it in any of the following methods:
That last method is easy. You can start next week withAnthology of the Killer. Or else…
