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death loop

death loop noun: a situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation, causing the game to loop indefinitely.

Noun

death loop (plural death loops)

  1. A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation, causing the game to loop indefinitely.
    • However, upon being resurrected I found myself in the morning of a groundhog day fighting the scorpion I had just killed, exiting the room, feeling woozy, eating chocolate, falling to the ground. I was stuck in a death loop.2012, Olli Tapio Leino, “Death loop as a feature”, in Game Studies, volume 12, number 2, Game Studies, →ISSN
    • The death loop represents a limit of the game system as well as the pleasures associated with fort-da present in the playing of digital games. Rather than the player failing, the machine has failed. As a type of bug, the death loop is not the only deadly, and deathly, reference to game-halting...2015, Emily Flynn-Jones, “Don't Forget to Die”, in Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jonas Linderoth, Ashley ML Brown, editors, The Dark Side of Game Play: Controversial Issues in Playful Environments...

Forms of death loop

pluraldeath loops

Questions about death loop

What does death loop mean?
Death loop means a situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation, causing the game to loop indefinitely.
What part of speech is death loop?
Death loop is a noun.
What is the plural of death loop?
The plural of death loop is death loops.

Words near death loop in the dictionary

  1. death knocks
  2. death lantern
  3. death lanterns
  4. death list
  5. death lists
  6. death loop
  7. death loops
  8. death march
  9. death marches
  10. death mask
  11. death masks

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