Nighttime stories constructed from real online video game chat messages collected
Told thru aging virtual environments

• A majority of the dialog here was specifically extracted from a Warrior Cats roleplay game on ROBLOX. The rest of it was Other ROBLOX Games That I Do Not Remember. There was originally supposed to be more than just ROBLOX chat messages in the script, but I found so much material from there alone that I deemed anything else unnecessary. Functionally, I didn't think it would make much of a difference to diversify the game selection, even if it would have technically been more true to the initial concept. The end result was the same at its core; I was given a series of dialog fragments with no context, and able to rearrange them into a dreamlike sequence of uncanny near-nonsense, its meaning entirely in the eye of the beholder.

Here's a look at some of the screenshots I was taking during those people-watching sessions for future reference, so you can see for yourself how every single line of dialog is Real:

• The set here is a recolored version of the classic build "Aldacre" by Minish, a personal favorite of mine.

• The background environment seen at 7:05 was recorded in the Toy Story 3 tie-in video game, another personal favorite Thing of mine.

• The murky liquid appearing at 17:25 was recorded in a custom Blockland map known as "Slate_Nightmare", which I also used in the background of this music video. Another childhood artifact that has stuck with me for years.