Welcome to Etheral Worlds!
I'm mostly using this site to Vibe right now, but it'll also be the best place to find my videos, get updates, and hear about all the random stuff I've been thinking about! Enjoy your stay, have a look around, and check out the links page when you're done :)
UPDATES
29/10/24
NEW VIDEO TIME. Horror and fantasy have always been strongly related through their shared gothic lineage and the survival horror genre in particular has long adhered to a dungeon crawling game structure which greatly influences the ways in which its stories are constructed. Check it out!
10/09/24
Whoa, what the fuck, new article? That's right, bitch: a very small sample of the proto-visual novels from outside Japan that released in the 1980s!
07/07/24
Even before we had the internet anime fans were out here making their own games, digital zines, and gallery disks full of fan art for all the world to see. It's fascinating stuff and I have a video all about it over there in the "videos" tab. Enjoy!
25/12/23
Oh god I forgot to post my video to my own website?? Well anyway, it's a Christmas video. Looking at some overlooked 16-bit Christmas games for the Amiga and Atari ST; PD games, demoscene packs, and mysterious British bootlegs. Hope you enjoy!
23/09/23
Well, I changed to a COMPLETELY different video part way through production of the survival horror one so I present to you: THe End of the UK'S PS1 Magazine! Our official mag somehow lasted until 2004 and filled its pages with many strange features as a result. We'll explore Final Fantasy fanzines, the Amiga and Atari ST origins of the Net Yaroze's most prominent games, and try our best to appease horsekind.
17/06/23
Hey! Next video is underway and should be here in a couple of weeks' time. Until then, I told my girlfriend I'd add a blingee to the site so...
... okay, so it's a glitterfy, but close enough right? You should check out her site, though. She's cool as fuck and currently working on a video about the Cotton series which I am BEYOND excited for. The image is a link and she's also in my Links section!
24/05/23
Gosh wow, life has been a PAIN these last few months but I managed to get something of a break over the last month and finally made that gosh-dang Amiga diskmags video. The horror video was very nearly done when I lost 15 minutes of it to a crash and I just did not want to look at it again. But I feel like I'm ready now, so my next video is likely to either be that or the Sonic fanfiction one at long last.
19/02/23
Fuck, it's been a while, huh? Well the worst happened but I'm dealing with it. Currently working on the next video. It's a little smaller than the Sonic fanfic and Amiga Diskmag ones, I kinda wanna try and get some of my momentum back. I'll just say fans of 80s computers and old-school survival horror are gonna be pretty happy!
16/12/2022
Next vids are going to be a while. Got some terrible news from the vet yesterday and, frankly, I'm not dealing with it very well. I'll be back to work as soon as I can.
02/12/2022
I'm probably gonna have to start archiving these updates at some point! The diskmag video is underway, I'll be recording the audio tonight and then editing it over the next few days. I'll upload a short snippet of the Sonic video soon, too, just to prove I'm still working on it. ALSO, I got another article/future video in the pipeline!
Whaddya think of the thumbnail? :)
30/11/2022
I started editing the Amiga diskmags article and wound up expanding it a great deal. It might end up being my December video, since I think I can get it out much faster than the Sonic one. It'll be short, sweet, and simple; more of a "look at this cool shit I like" than a real deep dive, but it's considerably more in-depth than the article currently is! I will also update the article to reflect the script for those who prefer reading over watching.
29/11/2022
Changed the visuals of the site a little. What do you think of the cool gradient?
28/11/2022
Launched the god damn site, is what I did! The first article is already up, too, but I'll probably edit it quite heavily in the nights to come; I wrote it in Neocities' code editor while I was formatting the site, lmao. The same subject will also be explored in more depth as a small part of a future video about Amiga aesthetics! Read the article here.
Also, the next video is coming along well but will probably take longer than the Sparkster one did. I'm aiming for mid-December right now and I am VERY excited for you all to see it!
90s Sonic fanfiction, baby, you can't beat it.