Real permadeath - a thought experiment

[MrBehemoth]

Have you tried the newgrounds game "7 Days"? You basically have seven in-game days to fix a disease that's about to destroy the world. If you fail, the game remembers your state and prevents you from playing again.

Like all my best ideas, someone has already done it.
I'll check it out. I'm guessing it's free?

It was immediately bypassed by clearing your cookies.

If the 'real permadeth' idea was implemented, it would need to have somekind of anti-cheat system. I've no idea how that could work though!

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......but I realised that the permadeath mechanic in Justine required the Launcher which the AmnesiaTest111113 patch doesn't have.

You can still totally implement permadeath in TDD though. Just put your only respawn point in a black box, then after the player dies and respawns in the box, freeze them, roll credits.

I see your point about having to solve a puzzle when you respawn, I think it could remove some tension from the game.

I don't think it's a bad idea in general, but it would have made the piggies less scary (to the extent that they were scary) if you knew that they weren't actually going to hurt you. Don't know if you knew, but one of those puzzles made it into the final game. In the sewers, there is a separate area with a big pit. If you fall in you have to use a rock to knock a ladder down. If you'd been caught you would have woken at the bottom of the pit.

Me personally, I think this is a great idea and I would like to see this executed in a game.

Thanks! Good to know.
...But... would you pay for it?