Been watching videos on myhouse.wad and it's like... Okay, obvious inspiration was House of Leaves. Like, yeah, of course. But what's great is that it knows exactly what makes House of Leaves so effective. It's not the story of the impossible geometry of the house. It's how there are multiple narratives going on. Yes, there's The Navidson Record. But did you ever read just the footnotes? There's a completely different story going on.
And then did you read the two together, just everything on the page before going to the next one?
There are three stories going on at the same time: The Navidson Record, what is happening to Johnny, and then the story of how the two weave together.
Myhouse.wad doesn't forget that. Yeah, the titular house has impossible geometry. But the actual story creeps out of the game and into the files. And then into the story of you playing it, and how you interact with it.
My favourite part is the fact that House of Leaves leans into the medium. The story starts to affect how the pages look and how it's formatted. And so does myhouse.wad! It leans into how impossible it should be to make Doom be able to do this. The impossible geometry isn't just ooh look at this door, it's "wait hold on Doom can't do that how is this happening?"
Myhouse.wad understands what House of Leaves did beyond ooh scary impossible house. And I think it proves any medium could pull this off... You just need to understand said medium.
And then make it do the impossible while weaving the story into the story of you watching/reading/listening/playing it.
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