Comments on: Deaths

By: snowyowl

snowyowl — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:01:35 +0000

@Del Boy: The same person who created this game claims that he made a game like that, but never released it.
It was going to be called “Game Over Forever”. If you died once, the game would never restart (because it saved a file to an obscure location on your computer). Sad.

By: MakiTo

MakiTo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:09:16 +0000

Hehe, I love this game! In the last level I didn’t die because there was a huge mountain of bodies =P
Hope to see this game again soon, so much potential :D

By: Pod

Pod — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:20:36 +0000

I cant’ get past level 4 :(

By: Seth Burgess

Seth Burgess — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:09:57 +0000

Does anyone remember the Windows game several years back that had you fighting enemies based on the filenames on your own hard disk?

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:45:45 +0000

Sort of related to the hypothetical game with “real computer consequences”: Doom as a Process Manager is still the silliest application of FPS technology.
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
and the related “Brutal File Manager” (File management as an FPS)
http://www.forchheimer.se/bfm/

(And, indeed, Roguelikes generally do delete all your savegames when you die, so it’s not just Nethack that does that [although Nethack's bones files are fairly unique])

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:39:29 +0000

(And, indeed, Roguelikes generally do delete all your savegames when you die, so it’s not just Nethack that does that [although Nethack's bones files are fairly unique])

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:30:20 +0000

Holy hell, that “Choke on my Groundhog, YOU BASTARD ROBOTS!” game is awesome!

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:13:15 +0000

@ Del Boy: The game would have to be very carefully made so there were no unfair moments.

It would also require the most rigourous bug testing gaming has ever seen. :D

By: Calabi

Calabi — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:08:16 +0000

It was quite fun albeit obviously a bit short and easy. I did die in a few less than obvious places just for the hell of it.

That might be interesting, you have a spontaneous combust button, so you can scare, confuse other players.

By: alphaxion

alphaxion — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:47:52 +0000

it’s like someone took “I wanna be the guy” and blended it with a creepy version of social networking sites..

Interesting *strokes the chin of one of the corpses*

By: Saul

Saul — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:28:15 +0000

That is the best idea ever.

By: araczynski

araczynski — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:03:47 +0000

brilliant concept, hope that its incorporated someday soon into full/retail games.