The Gap (The Old Dark House)

[@mementoGamedev]

Something I'm glad you've been commenting on in other videos is the use of notes to deliver exposition in a horror game, which is something of a peeve of mine and I've so far avoided using them entirely (although they ofc have their place in storytelling). The gist of it is that the bulk of the story is ideally told through the environment. The Gap's story is fairly dense considering the scope of the project, and I've probably thought way too long about it. The fun anyway, is having people figure out the details for themselves. The name itself is a clue that adds context to the rest of the story. Glad you've enjoyed it, I'm dying at the jumpscare reactions lol

[@zakshei]

World building is a great way to tell stories

[@Gear_Snack]

Honestly how far you've come as a developer is quite inspiring, The Gap compared to Where's Oswald from a feel and technical perspective feels miles better. And the overall scares here are pretty great. A lot of time not giving you jumpscare gratification instead leaving uncertainty and dread and using jumpscares to avoid having so much build up the atmosphere flounders.

[@evilbanshee]

Keep this kind of shit up and you'll probably rival developing in terms of Layers of Fear type of horror!

[@ruanulisses6650]

Bro, I just wanted to tell you that you are amazing as a game dev, you really know what you're doing and you are doing it very well

[@mementoGamedev]

@@ruanulisses6650 Thank you kindly.

[@IxodesPersulcatus]

The Librarian: "Did you see that?!" KZbin Compression: "No, they didn't."

[@lazytanks4035]

Real.

[@arbitrary2868]

0:12 Intro (with a startle) 2:31 Game Intro 4:57 Gameplay Start 6:30 The House with the Red Door (Tell Dany we finally found her childhood home) 8:16 Ermagerd, Is Dat A The Lobotomy Reference??! 9:44 Well, it is still considered tresspassing, even if this place has been abandoned for years. 10:10 The Reverse of Your Childhood Fear 10:39 "To Neverland" 11:05 Possible Threat or Style 14:01 This Is Where the Fun Begins 14:46 Tossing and Turning (trying to get the cool side of the pillow/bed) 15:11 I've Come For Your Pickle (Major Jumpscare) 16:35 Unholy Spawn of Ungoliant 17:20 Lets Test Something 17:35 Regarding Horror Stories 18:25 Oh Screw That 20:06 A Twitcher from AoM (plus fall) 20:37 The Basement's Basement 23:00 Shelob 24:12 Teke Teke 26:30 Panic Before Scream 27:03 The Path Forward 27:50 Fresh Air 29:03 Jesus Christ (Exploring the Backyard) 29:57 Ending: Rain Gone Away 32:22 Ending Thoughts (I definitely liked this one more than the last two. Its good to see the Dev, well, developing their skills. Its pretty cool. Hoping to continue seeing their progression. I agree with pretty much everything you interpreted regarding the story and gameplay.) 37:55 Free Roam Start (just like in Wheres Oswald? this is basically a gm_explore) 41:22 A Scare to Keep Your Blood Pumping 42:34 Space Beyond the Car 44:39 A Surprise to be Sure, But a Welcome One 47:28 Outro 48:25 Patrons

[@ytP-U-R-G]

The worst part about being early to a Librarian video is no-ones written the jumpscare timecodes in the comments yet...

[@nilaier1430]

That's the best part

[@sneakythechild8934]

Weak

[@theorangegremlin334]

weakling

[@TheObserver3]

Why would you want to spoil those moments with knowing when they'll happen?

[@sneakythechild8934]

@@TheObserver3 literally 🍷

[@honestvii6388]

Something about slow chases really get to me. Combining the panic of being chased with the paranoia of being followed, I guess. Glad to see it utilized here so effectively.

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

I think the panic of a fast chase is the same as the panic of a quicktime event. You're thinking about what inputs the game wants, and how to execute it properly first go, and how far back you'll be set if you don't get it right. A slow chase can be about the setting and the monster instead.

[@somedude2384]

To have heard the criticism of Owl Man, It really makes me happy to hear you really liked this game! It makes me very proud of the game developer!

[@tinglesrosyrupeeland]

One thing I really noticed in the free realm version is the strange dissonance of the architecture, it looks like japanese architecture but also America in some places and really lends to the dreamlike feeling

[@supernovaitup]

I'm glad that the dev graduated from static hovering monsters to terrifying crawling animations

[@generatoralignmentdevalue]

Very cool to watch an individual dev learn, grow, and try out different ideas. I like to think free roam is canon, and set after the campaign. Before you joined the house, you saw a spooky haunted occult place in the dark. But now, you see the world like she does from the house she was destined to be part of. You see what she got in return for her life, and it's always golden hour and you can go anywhere and find anything.

[@mementoGamedev]

Thank you kindly. The free roam absolutely is intended as an extension of the main story. The two characters are trapped there forever, but they have found each other.

[@IPutFishInAWashingMachine]

15:18 One of the best jumpscares I've seen in a while.

[@tinglesrosyrupeeland]

Another awesome upload, thank you!

[@Hypsilophodontidae]

Watching this on my lunch break and the first big scare had me losing my sh*t in the back room

[@EllieEars]

Thank you so much!! Your voice has brought me so much comfort and I always put in one of your Gmod explore videos to fall asleep too so thank you!!

[@PeterBee911]

Oh my god, I'm not the only one then! The Librarian is real accidental ASMRtist!

[@agentonduty7036]

Librarian, please work in my local library. Always had the fantasy of you recommending books to me with your descriptive words from a suiting voice.

[@thinginground5179]

It would be cool if he did some videos about books or something But then again what can you really do with books

[@agentonduty7036]

@@thinginground5179 One of the best attributes to my psychology researches is books. Not to mention how it improved my English and imagination. You should try reading one, give it a shot, you've only got one life.

[@vicooficial]

The 15:15 jumpscare actually surprassed Suite 776's one

[@The_libit_Corporation]

I love librarian’s videos mainly because they are… PERFECT. I’ve been watching his content for a long time. He is by far the most underrated KZbinr. He is the definition of a LEGEND. He is my favorite KZbinr because he’s so talented at what he does, he posted almost every day and I normally don’t miss his videos. I normally watch his videos when they come out. Thank You Librarian. From-Box-VR

[@thejynxedlynx5570]

The familial home torn asunder and left empty of life; no one left to care for it, and no one left to remember the meaning. Left empty but for memories of those passed; those left behind, who are still searching for what they've lost. The corridors once flush with warmth stretch out as a cold, unfeeling maze in the fleeting mind as it takes its last, shallow breath. Sporadic remembrances cling like webs to footsteps in the long-settled dust, twisted and torn to unrecognizable shreds. I agree with the good Librarian's thoughts on this one. I see the house as, if not literally, then a representation of the family house shared by the father and his daughter. The decrepit state of it; the covered easel; the oblique references to death and the afterlife. I think the two graves in the back are especially damning. The father lived in a deep depression after his loss until he finally took his life, which leads into what's shown in the basement: a madly twitching figure before a fall, a kicked over stool, and the vague sight of swinging legs a floor above. Whether the journey through the house was some kind of purgatory or the nonsensical flashes of a dying mind as the life drained out of him is up to further interpretation. It's a classic story that never gets old, and I dearly enjoy interpreting this game's events as such.

[@SavorySoySauce]

At the first jumpscare you screamed just as loud as the ghost the voices synced together lol

[@jackanderson5090]

Hello librarian! Have you ever heard of Yume Nikki? It’s an old rpg maker game that explores a vast world of your own dreams that are without rhyme or reason. It’s more of an experience than an actual game but I truly think you would enjoy exploring it! It WILL take several uploads to truly see everything in this bizarre yet charming game. This game can be comforting at times and downright terrifying at others. And if you do end up trying this game and still want more then I also suggest yume 2kki. Same concept but infinitely larger with dozens of different people making different moody or cozy environments in this adaptation of the regular yume Nikki. Interested? Both of these games are free from last time I checked!

[@BodomFox]

"The geometry is changing. Or is it?" [Vsauce music starts playing in my head]

[@error4159]

That was one of the best jump scares ever. I'm definitely buying this, lol

[@xebby9]

15:15 has to be the most scared he's been

[@misadate8688]

ok, this game is the first horror game that got me with it's jump scares

[@Awesome_Rammy]

I just realized that the house in this game is the same one from the last lidar game you played and some others but slightly modified, its really weird, like the first time you went upstairs, I fully expected a corridor at each side, but then you turned on the light and half the house was missing lol

[@cabrinius7596]

same one from that gmod map too

[@keganmemestar4465]

It’s probably an asset you can buy from an asset store

[@theexchipmunk]

You know, when Librarian said "peering ever closer..." I had to go back and check if the window indeed was slowly zooming in. Id did not, but looking at it it really appears to barely noticable loom every larger but never actually doing so. What a cool optical ilusion.

[@Redsoul291]

Truly awesome. Jump scares never felt cheap

[@TheDBPhantom]

Oh hey I'm excited to see more from this dev! The other stuff you've covered from them was pretty cool. I love the vibes their games give off. Let's gooo.

[@TheDBPhantom]

Hey! My stairs at home have those exact same railing beams (?) as the ones in this house. As a kid I used to sit on the stairs and hold onto the blocky parts on the bottom while looking down into the living room. It's fun to see them here.

[@gulliblegallade8624]

Dark rooms and loud noises. Basically a gmod jpeg jumpscare map with better models.

[@sociscin]

Oh yess I love this style of horror games. You really remind me of my favorite youtuber I used to watch...

[@adrielquiroga7901]

24:50 the eternal snail meme in videogame form

[@alejandroalzatesanchez]

when you see the librarian scared right on the menu screen you can predict that this will be wild!

[@stateberg7208]

15:14 that’s the first jump scare. That’s made me jump in a while.

[@TheRogueWolf]

I had no idea what anything was about in this game until you came up with your theory at the end. Works for me!

[@fluffpuff0x144]

Finally caught the latest upload right on time

[@kaiyotee2475]

Yeah same here, clicked the moment it went live on the Discord.

[@televisionandcheese]

Uses the same system of opening/closing doors with the mouse movement as in The Long Drive, it's an interesting way of doing it, I kinda like it, it allows you to open the door to any degree rather than pressing a button and waiting for it to swing out 90 degrees or open into you and get in the way Hope more games adopt this method of doing doors

[@SteackDeLamasticot]

That free roam is great

[@emeraldeevee4220]

Video 9 of asking the Librarian to play Superliminal

[@gst4335]

I watched your vid's when I was 10 and you insider me to play horror games and g mod with my friends, Thx for all the memory's😊

[@Hexelloverluna]

I haven't watched the full thing yet but 20:26 reminds me of PT; -he concete floor where you wake up on and how its animated -a single exit from the room with a light above it - the chair in the corner is similar to and in the same place as the table in pt - you exit into a hallway that once you look down it curves to the left -the figure is not only standing in a light that later goes out like lisa is in one of the first loops in PT but also doing the same / similar pose.

[@quacktoasters]

THIS IS SO GOOD

[@anisims1569]

This game was just perfect!!

[@franklin5647]

Idk why but i really love you 0:33

[@Mae.Matter]

"day" five of asking for night in the woods It'll happen eventually :)

[@underthetreeproductionsOffical]

Hopefully

[@Skyisgoingbacktopluto]

Boost this, guys

[@zakshei]

It has to

[@pootan9365]

You probably already have played or know of it, but a very spoopy gmod map was recently relased at the workshop ,gm Liminal Archive Remake. Might even get use of the safety glock.

[@alejandroalzatesanchez]

15:15 somehow he survived to that lol

[@theexchipmunk]

By far not the worst scare Librarian ever had. I think it was scare reel 3 you can find it in. From that one haunted apartment of an architect game. That one sounded like it nearly killed him, litterally.

[@MonkeyMasterWT]

An other masterpiece

[@77SunbeamVintage]

15.24 - yep, dropped my coffee 🤭

[@stateberg7208]

34:33 I’ve had dreams where it went from running away from the thing, I most fear and then me turning into the laziest security guard peering into other peoples dreams

[@paivioselanne]

15:19 Scare Reel #4 coming soon after that? Oof.

[@salavast1522]

I know what I want in the next Scare Reel.

[@rainofda0w024]

15:17 well that made me jump!

[@elevatei8]

scare reel #3 confirmed 😮

[@Scaveged]

15:30 That scared the living F\/CK out of me Jesus Christ my god wtlf

[@derrickclaypool7198]

Definitely should try playing scrap and run

[@tinglesrosyrupeeland]

16:35 and 23:00 OH my goodness so unsettling

[@MaximumRD]

Fall into the GAP !

[@atomicreptiliascreator738]

I don't know why, but the setting feels Japanese. I can't explain it, but it could be the architecture of the buildings.

[@zakethekid1333]

I am once again asking for a SOMA commentary

[@Exel3nce]

That would be marvelous

[@Novum228]

Yukari Yakumo was bored and made a horror game

[@drmy-]

OMORI when?

[@marshall170]

You should play the game iBlis it’s apparently a cursed game

[@pepethefrog1492]

I love your videos

[@Abisaru413]

the gameplay trailer for Alan wake 2 was released not even a week ago! it should be released on October 17!!!! I would love to see you play it! and I am not joking either go watch the trailers!

[@namelessxdread]

20:23 P.T. intro

[@EldurLeikir]

we are lucky to have a great KZbin

[@gummygal008]

you should play the amnesia custom story "amadeus"

[@xavierrodriguez2669]

Hey librarian, are you gonna play the new horror game sequel based off of an egotistical and delirious writer trying to save his wife from his psyche torturing her with her greatest fear?

[@postminchoppa]

4:00 ok fair enuff, quits game

[@lettuce6017]

17:05 after he shot on my back *vineboom*

[@lamb5890]

the lack of likes on this vid is a crime against humanity :(

[@StalwartTirith]

Okay watching the goofy thing crabwalking after you was hilarious.

[@underthetreeproductionsOffical]

27 minutes ago lol

[@laurenschwarz111]

Cheap jeans?!? Librarian, where are you buying your pants?!?!

[@genericwhitekidthesecond4330]

FIRST to die

[@KushGunSmoke27]

First again boys

[@StalwartTirith]

14:14 Excuse my language but _jesus fucking christ_ I am _sick_ of these garbage clones. PT was like a decade ago devs! I am so sick and tired of the twitchy "Spooky GhooOOOooost" that all look like they're having an endless seizure. For once, just *once*, I'd love nothing more than to see one of these devs do something even _remotely_ original, but nope. Not even half way into the video and already we've got the twitchy ghost (who probably snaps your neck if you get caught because of course) and I guarantee they'll have ripped off something else by the end of the video. Just to be clear, none of this is directed at Librarian. I adore his content and covering so much stuff; I'm just irritated at how repetitive so many of these games end up being.

[@Des420]

I’ve watched the opening 12 times on the tv, 12 times on the phone and 12 times on the pc… I couldn’t see anything in any of them?