Emily is Away did that by having characters send you links to songs to listen to during the game. There was a fake retro version of YouTube that embedded the song to fit the vibe too.

Yeah, all done in shader. Basically look at pixels of texture in a 16x16 grid and if they have color then "smear" it world space down over time. Couple params for density to control probability cell can smear, and some length/time variation so they don't all finish at once.

I added a blood drip effect to the decal shader.

Not in this one but we were in the last Next Fest. I emailed you a key.

It's fun. I miss overly edgy early 2000s media.

The writeup on how to achieve this effect in Unity is a pretty interesting read: jacktollenaar.top/articles/m…

Consider the following:

It counts as much as the death in The Abyss was my point.