death loop

English

Noun

death loop (plural death loops)

  1. (video games) A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation.
    • 2012, Olli Tapio Leino, “Death loop as a feature”, in Game Studies‎, volume 12, number 2, Game Studies, →ISSN:
      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.
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