Words Must Die

NASTY JACK'S BACK IN TOWN.

HE'S AT THE SALOON.

IT'S TIME TO SHOOT HIM AND HIS NASTY GANG... WITH A GUN.

Words Must Die is a story-game where you're playing a hypertext game, but it's also an FPS. And you're shooting the words with your gun. (Your FPS gun.) And in the story you're also shooting a gun-- an imaginary, narrative gun.

Listen: there's guns.

Words Must Die is a submission to the Pippin Barr Game Jam. It's based on the following Pippin Barr tweet:

░ ░ GAME IDEA
░ ░ ░
░ ░ ░ ░ YOU'RE A COWBOY
░ ░ ░
░ ░ AND YOU DONE WRONG
░ ░ ░
░ ░ ░ ░ SO YOU NOBLY RELOAD
░ ░ ░
░ ░ AND TRY TO DO RIGHT
— P░pp░n B░rr (@pippinbarr) July 18, 2016

We'd also like to thank Christine Love for her wonderful hypertext game Even Cowgirls Bleed, which heavily inspired this game.

Paper Nerds is:

• Brody Brooks | Programming and Level Design
• Kris Calabio (Twitter) (itch.io) | Sound Composer
• Mark Calabio | 2D Art
• Travis Ford Decastro | Music and SFX
• Brian Maynard | Programming and Level Design
• Laura Michet | Writing and Game Design
• Rosstin Murphy | Programming
• Kent Sutherland | Writing and Game Design

"Words Must Die is what happens when a first person shooter and visual novel have a beautiful baby." - Kotaku

"It's certainly the best western-themed FPSIF I can think of." - RPS

"Congratulations!" - Mom

Update History

• v1.2.1
  • Minor writing edits
• v1.2
  • Updated final passes on music
  • Fixed player able to leave level bounds when saloon is hidden
• v1.1
  • Added in-game pause menu (hit Escape)
  • Added more variety of saloon folks
  • Added Quit option to main menu
  • Fixed mouse cursor being active when starting the game
  • Fixed text in the beginning being difficult to read
  • Fixed some broken button links
  • Fixed ending music not looping properly

Download Trouble?

If you're finding the download links below are not working, here's a mirror:

• Windows
• Mac