The
Kill Yourself Game is a Java game for the
mobile platform, designed for people who are so
bored they'd rather be dead. Mobile games, are
after all, a catharsis for transient boredom.
This parody, platform shooter sees players influence
game dynamics by first inputting self-worth parameters.
Players with the highest level of self-hatred
enjoy the longest games of self-sacrificing mutilation.
Those who love themselves most find the game ending
almost before it begins. After choosing a character
who 'looks like you feel', and inputting the 'degree
to which you hate yourself', game play consists
of repeatedly killing copies of the character
you choose, whilst listlessly meandering through
'Happy Town'. The game is designed to increase
in difficulty exponentially to player self-hatred,
resulting in the most self-hating players experiencing
the most difficult time completing the game. Thus,
ironically, self-hatred is rewarded with greater
cause for self-hatred, simultaneous to an increased
opportunity to indulge this self-hatred by continually
shooting replicas of oneself to pieces. The game
is won when the game itself decides that the player
has persecuted themselves sufficiently, relative
to their natural tendencies towards self-persecution. |
