Flatwoods Mac OS
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
Flatwoods is a small adventure game with two endings, built in the RPG Maker MV engine. You are Lemon, a small child that feels a great need to uncover the mystery of the 'shooting star' that has just flown over your home and landed somewhere in the woods nearby. Loosely based on the story of The Flatwoods Monster.
This is my first game and has been designed to be a quaint experience (around 30 minutes) for the player, and an educational experience for myself. It also contains 2 endings, with the full ending requiring the player find all 8 pieces of metal located around the game world.
Mac OS X version requires Mac OS X 10.10 or better. (I have heard of some issues relating to the OS X version and these problems seem to the related to the way the WebM video format which is used heavily throughout the game runs on the operating system. I have done what I can to minimize these problems in v1.0.3).
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Flatwoods features an original soundtrack by Jake Tracey:
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| Status | Released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
| Rating | |
| Author | Visitors From Dreams |
| Genre | Visual Novel, Adventure |
| Tags | 8-Bit, alien, flatwoods-monster, Game Boy, Halloween, Monsters, Top Down Adventure, ufo |
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Short but very sweet, I loved the art style and the animated cutscenes were fantastic! Really nicely done.
this game looks really good and have you heard of soma spirits
I am glad you like the look of my game. :)
And yes, I have played through Soma Spirits and even made its Steam Greenlight Trailer for the creator! Was an honor.
This game rocks! You should make a longer version!
I am really glad you enjoyed it. While I wont be making a longer version of this game in particular I will being carrying over some elements of it into my next project. :)
This was great! Please make this adventure longer!! 😍
Stay rad everybody!!
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Thanks for the Lets Play, its awesome seeing so many people doing videos on the game. You actually get a different ending if you get all 8 pieces of metal. ;D
I am really happy to get to play this and I hope that there will be a lot more where this came from! Played it for the channel, and I also hope you like the voices I gave to the characters.
Awesome! Its great seeing another Lets Play of my game. Cant get enough of these, great tools for learning game design from. I look forward to watching and thanks for the support!
Hi, oh my how I liked your game. It's really funny and silly sometimes but in a good way)) Some of the Lemon's lines were like super adorable and priceless. Also those short animated-cartoonish scenes are just awesome and so detailed. BUT please tell me that it wasn't the end because WHY would you end it so soon?!!! Also before we actually saw the aliens?! And you mentioned 2 endings but I could only got one. And strangly enough I got the same ending even when I didn't pick the hatchet and wasn't collecting «metal pieces». So was there a reason for collecting those like at all?
Once again, nice game, loved it, even made a letsplay on it. Seriously don't you ever dare stop, please continue what you're doing cause you're really great at it :)
Sounds like you missed the metal piece in the chicken coop, if you grab it you will get to meet the Alien. :)
I am glad you enjoyed the game and im really glad you took the time to make a lets play based on it. I will be starting work on my next game soon so feel free to follow me for updates!
wow, thanks a LOT for the clue!!! I'll definitely check it!!)))
Oh, no it was my pleasure)) And actually I AM already following you))) So... I wish you the best of luck ^_^ I'm looking forward to your new game :)
This was very cute + good, I liked the lemon kid's expressions :D
Thank you very much! I am glad you enjoyed it. Drawing Lemon's expressions was probbaly the most fun of the whole project, ha ha.
i loved it! it was so cute. the animation was adorabs too! :D
*found a typo! unless it was intentional? 'these are all to warn out to read tho' / 'too worn out'+'though'
whelp, 'warn' was an accidental typo and 'tho' was a deliberate one, best of both worlds ha ha.
I am glad you enjoyed it. ^^
The Flatwoods monster (also known as the Braxton County Monster or Phantom of Flatwoods) in West Virginiafolklore, is an entity reported to have been sighted in the town of Flatwoods in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, on September 12, 1952, following the appearance of a bright object crossing the night sky. Nearly fifty years later, investigators concluded that the light was a meteor and the creature was a barn owl perched in a tree, with shadows making it appear to be a large humanoid.
History[edit]
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At 7:15 p.m. on September 12, 1952, two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer said they saw a bright object cross the sky and land on the property of local farmer G. Bailey Fisher. The boys went to the home of Kathleen May, where they told their story. May, accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley and Ronnie Shaver, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, went to the Fisher farm in an effort to locate whatever it was that the boys said they had seen. The group reached the top of a hill, where Nunley said they saw a pulsing red light. Lemon said he aimed a flashlight in that direction and momentarily saw a tall 'man-like figure with a round, red face surrounded by a pointed, hood-like shape'.
Descriptions varied. In an article for Fate Magazine based on his tape-recorded interviews, UFO writer Gray Barker described the figure as approximately 10 feet (3.0 m) tall, with a round blood-red face, a large pointed 'hood-like shape' around the face, eye-like shapes which emitted greenish-orange light, and a dark black or green body.[1] Kathleen May described the figure as having 'small, claw-like hands', clothing-like folds,[2] and 'a head that resembled the ace of spades'.[3] According to the story, when the figure made a hissing sound and 'glided toward the group', Lemon screamed and dropped his flashlight, causing the group to run away.[4]
The group said they had smelled a 'pungent mist' and some later said they were nauseated. The local sheriff and a deputy had been investigating reports of a crashed aircraft in the area. They searched the site of the reported monster but 'saw, heard and smelled nothing'. According to Barker's account, the next day, A. Lee Stewart, Jr. of the Braxton Democrat claimed to discover 'skid marks' in the field and an 'odd, gummy deposit'[2][1] which were subsequently attributed by UFO enthusiast groups as evidence of a 'saucer' landing.[5][2]
According to former news editor Holt Byrne, 'newspaper stories were carried throughout the country, radio broadcasts were carried on large networks, and hundreds of phone calls were received from all parts of the country'. The national press services rated the story '#11 for the year'. A minister from Brooklyn came to question the May family. A Pittsburgh paper sent a special reporter. UFO and Fortean writers like Gray Barker and Ivan T. Sanderson arrived to investigate.[6]
Conventional explanations[edit]
After investigating the case in 2000, Joe Nickell of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry concluded that the bright light in the sky reported by the witnesses on September 12 was most likely a meteor, that the pulsating red light was likely an aircraft navigation/hazard beacon, and that the creature described by witnesses closely resembled an owl. Nickell suggested that witnesses' perceptions were distorted by their heightened state of anxiety. Nickell's conclusions are shared by a number of other investigators, including those of the Air Force.[2][7]
The night of the September 12 sighting, a meteor had been observed across three states—Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. According to Nickell, three flashing red aircraft beacons were also visible from the area of the sightings, which could account for descriptions of a pulsating red light and red tint on the face of the supposed monster.[2][7]
Nickell concluded that the shape, movement, and sounds reported by witnesses were also consistent with the silhouette, flight pattern, and call of a startled barn owl perched on a tree limb, leading researchers to conclude that foliage beneath the owl may have created the illusion of the lower portions of the creature (described as being a pleated green skirt). Researchers also concluded that the witnesses' inability to agree on whether the creature had arms, combined with Kathleen May's report of it having 'small, claw-like hands' which 'extended in front of it', also matched the description of a barn owl with its talons gripping a tree branch.[2][1][6]
According to skeptic Ryan Haupt, even though local boy Max Lockard admitted he'd driven around the site 'hoping to see something' in his Chevy truck, 'paranormal investigators concluded that the tracks, oily residue, and bits of a rubbery substance must have been left by the creature and not the truck'. Haupt explains nausea reported by some of the witnesses as symptoms 'consistent with hysteria and over-exertion'.[8]
Local culture[edit]
Local officials have erected a 'Welcome to Flatwoods / Home of the Green Monster' sign on the route leading into the town.[2]
In celebration of the legend, the Braxton County Convention and Visitor's Bureau built a series of five tall chairs in the shape of the monster to serve as landmarks and visitor attractions. The town of Sutton also houses a museum dedicated to the monster legend and offers promotional merchandise.[4] The Bureau rewards visitors who photograph all five chairs with 'Free Braxie' stickers as part of their ongoing promotion.[9]
The monster legend is celebrated every year when the town of Flatwoods holds its annual festival called 'Flatwoods Days'. The three-day festival is a weekend of live music, and food and craft vendors.[10]
In popular culture[edit]
- The monster appears in various video games,[11] such as The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask,[12]Space Harrier II,[13]Amagon,[14]Strikers 1945,[citation needed]Fallout 76[15] and as an Easter egg in 'Everybody's Golf 4'[16]
- The second episode of the 2019 History Channel television series Project Blue Book is entitled 'The Flatwoods Monster', and is based on the Flatwoods incident.[17][18]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abcBarker, Gray (January 1953). Webster, Robert N. (ed.). 'The Monster and the Saucer'. Fate. Vol. 6 no. 1. pp. 12–17.
- ^ abcdefgNickell, Joe (2 November 2000). 'The Flatwoods UFO Monster'. Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 24 no. 6. CSICOP. pp. 15–19.
- ^Griffin, Buddy (Fall 2002). Lilly, John (ed.). 'The Legend of the Flatwoods Monster'. Goldenseal. State of West Virginia, Department of Commerce. 28 (3): 56–61.
- ^ ab'Flatwoods Monster'. Braxtonwv.org. Braxton County Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ^'More On The 'Green Monster''. Civilian Saucer Investigation (Winter Edition). Project 1947 (Republished by). 1 (2). 1953. Retrieved 2006-11-01.
- ^ abByrne, Holt. 'The Phantom of Flatwoods'. Sunday Gazette-Mail State Magazine, 1966. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ abKeyhoe, Donald E (1953). Flying Saucers from Outer Space. Henry Holt. ASINB0007DECOA.
- ^Dunning, Brian; Haupt, Ryan (30 Sep 2014). 'Skeptoid #434: The Braxton County Monster'. Skeptoid. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^'Free Braxxie'. braxtonwv.org. Braxton County Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ^'Yearly Events'. braxtonwv.org. Braxton County Convention and Visitor's Bureau. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
- ^'Flatwoods Monster'. Giant Bomb. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^'Ghost (Majora's Mask)'. Zelda Wiki. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^'Space Harrier II'. Sega Does. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^'Amagon for NES'. MobyGames. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^Lavender, Dave. 'Video game to be based in a post-apocalyptic Mountain State'. The Herald-Dispatch. Retrieved 2018-06-12.
- ^'There's A Strange Monster Hiding In Hot Shots Golf 4'. Kotaku.
- ^Lavender, Dave. 'Episode of History show to feature the Flatwoods Monster'. The Herald-Dispatch.
- ^'Watch The Flatwoods Monster Full Episode - Project Blue Book'. HISTORY.