Welcome to... secret game club.

 

https://secretgameclub.neocities.org/

Welcome to the secret game club! This is a website I made with the help of Zonelets, a helpful html template, and Neocities, a website host. When I decided to make a website, the last thing I wanted was a big stupid watermark in the corner of the screen, so I went to Neocities a host specifically about hosting html sites, specifically designed with the intent of replicating the old internet form of websites (even taking the name of Geocities), because it gave near complete freedom with the layout and ideas, the trade-off is that it’s all html based rather than an easy to understand template, and I have little experience with coding, however I found a html blog template by the name of Zonelets,  and continued to edit from there, interestingly, even when still using another template I still felt a sense of freedom not seen in an more accessible blog editor website like blogger. I do wish I had gonna and went outside of template, however.

The concept is largely based around the idea of an underground club centered around games, I was inspired by a lot of gaming adjacent things, like review sites/shows, etc. (Game Center CX, Action Button, Mega64, etc.) rather than actual games, I’m a little fascinated by creative works that are centered around the love of a medium they are not apart of and I wanted to make something similar to that, rather than making a video game itself. I wanted to then center it around a fictional narrative with a fake history and fake head writer, sort of to give it a fun creative edge. The aesthetic is meant to be simplistic and monochromatic because I thought it would give it a mysterious and dead look, I was partly inspired by the late-night look of adult swim. In a way I think of this as the culmination of my projects from this term, even including a short video that I don’t need to get into right now and is one of the only ones I really feel like expanding and continuing on the future.

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