Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️for some reason back in 2017, I decided to make a website to make fake video game screenshots. This was a good idea and made a lot of people laugh.
Here's to the Death Generator, eight years and 270ish games later!
(The actual 8th year anniversary was yesterday, but I was too dead that day to remember to post about it)
Random Death Generator History fact:
The second game to be added was SimCity 2000, added a little under two months later on Dec 18, 2017.
The second game to be added was SimCity 2000, added a little under two months later on Dec 18, 2017.
It was called "Sierra Death Generator" at the beginning, despite the very second game added being a non-Sierra title.
In February of 2018 I called it "the increasingly inaccurately named 'Sierra Death Generator'"
In February of 2018 I called it "the increasingly inaccurately named 'Sierra Death Generator'"
You'd think that was when I dropped the "Sierra" from the name, oh no!
Even though I stopped calling it the Sierra Death Generator when I posted about it, the name on the page didn't change for two more years, finally getting changed on Jun 15th, 2020.
Even though I stopped calling it the Sierra Death Generator when I posted about it, the name on the page didn't change for two more years, finally getting changed on Jun 15th, 2020.
the death generator has had one development hiatus, for legal reasons:
for five days in June 2019, I wasn't allowed to update it because I'd signed an employment agreement that would have resulted in my employer owning it if I worked on it.
for five days in June 2019, I wasn't allowed to update it because I'd signed an employment agreement that would have resulted in my employer owning it if I worked on it.
someone reminded me about the Death Generator's little sister, SorryPunk, the Cyberpunk 2077 apology generator:
https://sorrypunk.com
That came out in Dec 18, 2020 to meme on the blindingly yellow apology CD Porject Red made to their fans over that ill-received game.
I'd find the initial twitter post about it except they just banned me from searching, apparently? cowards.
Anyway, three questions:
1. What's your favorite death generator? I don't keep metrics (that my change in the next version), so I don't know what people use most.
1. What's your favorite death generator? I don't keep metrics (that my change in the next version), so I don't know what people use most.
I've joked before that I could have gotten 90% of the functionality of the death generator by just making two generators:
1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (https://deathgenerator.com#sotn)
2. Mario 64 (https://deathgenerator.com#m64)
1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (https://deathgenerator.com#sotn)
2. Mario 64 (https://deathgenerator.com#m64)
secondly, what games would you like to see in the death generator?
Finally, a personal request: I've been bedridden for the last year with medical issues, and I'm just now finally getting set up with a surgeon to get them fixed. I'm not able to work in this condition, so if you can spare a few dollars, that'd really help.
I've also got a patreon, if you'd like to set up a recurring donation:
https://www.patreon.com/c/foone
https://www.patreon.com/c/foone
and a cash app ($foone) and https://paypal.me/Foone, if either of those works better. Thanks so much.
I intend to get better and go on working on the death generator for at least another eight years and 270 more games!
✧✦Catherine✦✧@foone huh, paypal tells me RATE_LIMIT_REACHED
@whitequark gah? weird. I haven't exactly gotten spammed with donations yet, so I don't know why that'd happen
Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽@foone Dragon Quest. I-III are iconic, and VIII has *amazing* character screens to pull out, Yangus and the goblin King and the alchemy pot…
Sharpe!@foone If you're looking for suggestions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom!_(video_game) As far as I can tell, I'm the only person alive willing to admit to playing this game.
And somehow, today was the lucky day I learned about the generator!
Tiago Hackbarth@foone is Airborne Ranger in there already?
@foone the first Civilization news that already when changing political system and on entering a golden age. Similar to the Railroad Tycoon one.
@foone Master of Orion Galactic News Network.
Andrew
rejj
geekysteven@foone no specific requests, I'm usually able to find one that works even if it's not for the game I'm making a meme for. But I'll take this chance to express my gratitude to you for the work you've put in
integerbang
Airelle 🕸
bazzargh@foone just from the coincidence of seeing this message on my timeline, I realised *Ron Gilbert* has probably been using the Monkey Island Death Generator in his last couple of toots https://hachyderm.io/@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place/115450966020617132
SkaveRat 🐀 
monotonehell 🏳️🌈🇦🇺 (Andrew)@foone it's probably too late now, but when I first got wind that Elon was taking over, I downloaded all my data, then deleted the entire account, including tweets. So I have a local archive of all my tweets.
Alex Roberts@monotonehell @foone I did that too, now I have forgotten where the archive is...
Curtis Carter@foone I always keep my open source contributions off of work wifi, on a personal computer, and on my own time for that reason. We're technically not supposed to even discuss it at work but they use #NuGetDefense in some of our security scans so it's a little unavoidable.
@codingcoyote this was all three, but sadly it was a Very Big Company with lots of lawyers, so they said that even if I did it at home, with my own PC & internet, they own it
David Zaslavsky@foone @codingcoyote oof, how'd you get out of that one?
@diazona @codingcoyote I pointed out to them that the death generator was technically several hundred cases of copyright infringement and any one of the copyright owners could sue, since with them being the money behind it, they might bother to
@diazona @codingcoyote and they gave me a wavier to still work on it while employed there
@foone @codingcoyote wow, well uh, well played
Irenes (many)
Paul Evans@foone Ugh, I hate that kind of "we own everything" clause in an employment contract. I do so much open source work that I always negotiate it out before I agree to any contract.
alys
lp0 on fire 
@foone, “year anniversary” – you want to be careful with that. The Department of Redundancy Department might notice.
Alain Dellepiane 
@foone Congratulations, one of my favorite sites on the web 😊
persistentdreamergames@foone wait, you're the death generator person? That rules!
Softwarewolf@foone Words cannot express how much I love the CotW death generator, so have an image instead.
Paul
The VHS Wizard 🦝📼🧙
Eli
Lone
Armin