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

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　　░ ░ ░ ░ YOU'RE A COWBOY

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　　░ ░ AND YOU DONE WRONG

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　　░ ░ ░ ░ SO YOU NOBLY RELOAD

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　　░ ░ 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

　　v1.2.1Minor writing editsv1.2Updated final passes on musicFixed player able to leave level bounds when saloon is hiddenv1.1 Added in-game pause menu (hit Escape)Added more variety of saloon folksAdded Quit option to main menuFixed mouse cursor being active when starting the gameFixed text in the beginning being difficult to readFixed some broken button linksFixed ending music not looping properly

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