Freeware Game Pick: Deaths (Jesse Venbrux)
Deaths is a 2D experimental platformer by Jesse Venbrux, creator of Execution and the popular Karoshi series. At the start of each game, the last fifty failed attempts by players from all around the world will be loaded and displayed as cadavers in various parts of the current stage.
There are only six levels to play in total, as development work on Deaths has been discontinued due to lack of positive feedback. (download instructions)
Name: Deaths
Developer: Jesse Venbrux
Category: Platformer
Type: Demo
Size: 10MB
Comments
Fun idea, nice experimental game. It's sort of like that quantum super mario kaizo world video.
Pretty weird though that in order to beat the final levels you'll need to kill yourself a couple of times.
Posted by: Captain_Duck | July 14, 2008 5:06 PM
damn it, persistent shared deaths was our idea!! nooooooooooo!!
Posted by: raigan | July 14, 2008 5:55 PM
a vague 'idea' for a game not a good game at all
Posted by: tom | July 14, 2008 6:16 PM
this is a great idea... the implementation needs a bit of work though.
raigan: are you going to add this to some version of N? =D
please?
Posted by: Kloi | July 14, 2008 7:31 PM
Whoa! What an intriguing idea!
Posted by: Tr00jg | July 14, 2008 8:52 PM
this kid sure makes some morbid games
Posted by: Anonymous | July 15, 2008 11:43 AM
I love the idea, but it would be nice if there were more play mechanics centered around the bodies.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 15, 2008 6:37 PM
It looks like a mix of Paroxysm and Karoshi, but is worse than both games. The death sound is equal to Karoshi.
Posted by: Davide | July 17, 2008 6:44 PM