Been building a web-based early-2000s national park ARG
Posting for a friend who can't post here because their account it too new/not enough karma!
I’ve been building an ARG/web horror/unfiction project over the past year centered around a place called Spectral Valley National Park and just recently released it into the world [: would love to see some more eyes on it. It's been updated basically once a week since release, but it's pretty easy to catch on.
The project is split between multiple websites that have yet to be found! But the main ones are an archived-style national park website and a connected personal blog from someone investigating the park years later.
A lot of the inspiration comes from early-2000s internet aesthetics, old National Park Service websites, local folklore, abandoned forum culture, and slow-burn mystery storytelling. Honestly just wanted to make a unique storytelling experience because I'm not confident in my film-making skills to make a full short film, so I just coded instead LOL.
I'm also a full time student getting a degree in digital arts + animation, so I'm planning on pushing a lot more art stuff. Like fully encoding pieces of art, etc. It's very world-building/oc based, and I wouldn't say like. insanely scary [I'm not great at horror, just find it super interesting!]
There's a discord server that some folks made that I might edit into this post if that's allowed, they aren't affliated with the project itself, but I know some people were looking for a place to discuss it.
Main site:
https://spectralvalleynationalpark.neocities.org/
Connected blog:
https://oops-i-fell-in-a-pond.neocities.org/