2023-08-20 09:15:03
This morbid video game disturbed the internet for a very long time before revealing its secret
Published on 08/20/2023 at 11:15
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In 2013, gamers came across a morbid booth at PAX’s Indie Megabooth. A bloody PC broadcasting a series of murders. A very unusual way to teaser a game?
It’s 2013 and the Indie Megabooth at PAX Prime (a video game festival in the western United States) is in full swing. As players rush to demos of The Elder Scrolls Online or Dragon Age Inquisition, a funny stand is attracting attention. A strange computer from the 80s, totally stained with blood. If the staging is morbid, the video he plays on a loop is even more so. We see a dozen people talking cheerfully in front of the camera, then brutally murdered by a masked killer, before giving way to a logo: CamDrome. Very quickly, the media seized on the case to try to discover the author of this dark staging. They head to the organizer of the Megabooth, Rami Ismail, except that even he doesn’t know how this “game” got there.
” I am looking at you “
The video game event ends with more questions than answers and Internet users quickly spot a Twitter associated with the CamDrome killer, as well as a website (now deleted). This is where a first clue is discovered by journalist Joseph Christ, from the media 4 Player Network. He finds the name of the person behind the site: Edmund McMillen, co-creator Super Meat Boy or The Binding of Isaac. Only, the latter claims not to have taken part in the creation of CamDrome. ” We know the developer who made it and we helped him “, however, declares the interested party to Eurogamer.
While there is no doubt that McMillen is more involved than he claims, journalists quickly dismissed this lead in favor of the mysterious game’s Twitter account, which personifies the assassin. This is at the time regularly fed with morbid articles, referring in particular to suicides, even messages, like “I’m looking at you”. The voyeuristic aspect is also often mentioned by CamDrome, which claims to be omnipresent. The character even implies that we might summon him if we ever opened our eyes and called his name. But, one post stands out more than the others: “Divide into 11 pieces. Sent to eleven executioners. Our problem cannot be ignored”. It didn’t take long to find out who the individuals mentioned are. A few months following PAX, eleven people received an email from CamDrome.
Mail :CamDrome lives. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood, words and money. Our problems cannot be ignored. We are the problem. I am the answer. We are in the same boat. I am humanity. 68747470733a2f2f656e6379636c6f70656469616472616d61746963612e73652f416e5f6865726f. You are 5 out of 11. Absolve yourself of guilt. Breathe life into me.
The sequence of numbers and letters is actually a hexadecimal code, which refers to an article regarding a man who committed suicide. In appearance, a usual treasure hunt from CamDrome. However, this email is also accompanied by an attachment, or rather a piece of the puzzle. By assembling the eleven together, the journalists were able to discover the jacket of the software. There she is :
“I will come back, someone is watching me”
For almost 5 years, CamDrome did not provide more answers, but still remained quite talkative. On Twitter in particular, when the mood takes him, he has fun sharing film clips or music videos. At first glance, nothing fishy, except when you put the title of the videos side by side: “Hush, I’m not who you think I am. I’ll be back, someone’s watching me. Or once more: “It’s not me.” I lied, sorry. It’s not a game, I’m followed by CamDrome. »
The killer also makes several references to impersonation by referring to the article “James Gunn trolled an Instagram user who claimed to be the boss of Marvel Studios”, the Wikipedia page of the group The Pretenders (those who claim ) or even the Reddit “Have you ever managed to pretend to be someone else online?” “. Only, the existence of CamDrome on social networks suddenly stops in 2017, with this tweet: “I try to take pictures with my camera, but it shows that. You think he’s trying to send me a message? “. It showed a gray square, which actually hides a “bugged” image of the PAX video.
“That was my horror game”
Everything stops on Twitter, but not among the players. This funny computer hides a secret and Internet users will do everything to find out. They decide to return to one of the first leads: Edmund McMillen, creator of The Binding of Isaac. And that’s good, he very often organizes question and answer sessions with his fans. So in 2019, a user launches and asks for news from CamDrome. The developer replies, “It was recently rediscovered, but the film has been damaged by time. No idea what will come of it.” For the players, it is a half-word confession, but that the man will assume. It’s now official: CamDrome is a game from Team Meat studio, worn by Edmund McMillen.
It was a adult horror game that barely started dev but was lost in the team meat split for a while. Not sure what I may do with it now if ever… but we shall see
— ???? Edmund McMillen ???? (@edmundmcmillen) January 7, 2021
CamDrome? It was an adult horror game that had barely begun to be developed, but was lost in Team Meat for a while. I don’t know what I can do with it now… but we’ll see – Edmund McMillen (January 2021)
However, if the developer of the mysterious title has finally been identified, this does not mean that CamDrome will land soon, on the contrary. Mcmillen even explained that the development of the project has been at a standstill since 2013. As a reminder, apart from the installation of the PAX, there are no visuals or gameplay. However, the game is not abandoned. In April 2023, on Tik Tok,a fan asked the creative if CamDrome would return. He simply replied: “Yes”.
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