
But due to incompetence of his employees, a reluctant Death takes it upon himself to slay his staff and other undead characters that stand between him and his vacation, and to help restore the balance of order. But instead of dungeons, here you assume the role of Death (represented as a cartoon-like Grim Reaper) who runs, jumps and fights through varying departments of Death Incorporated, a company that processes souls in the afterlife.
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Have a Nice Deathis available now on Steam Early Access and launches on March 22 for PC and Nintendo Switch.HAVE A NICE DEATH is a hand-drawn side-scroller/platformer with roguelike elements, as you're running through randomly generated 2D levels. At this point, animation tests for Death had already been started, and thus Death managed to hold on to the protagonist role in this Tim Burton-esque roguelike. The decision was made on the basis that the team had already established the story and core gameplay elements surrounding Death as the protagonist. This, however, didn't come to pass, and the team instead decided to keep Death as the only playable character. However, we ultimately decided to make the cute pumpkin character the trainee and the skull face character, Jerry, became the lazy/syndicated employee."

As the team began to create a corporation world, Nico continued to research character design and created a trainee character with a skull face who was a big fan of Death.

However, we did incorporate Pump Quinn as an NPC role. Although Pump Quinn could have been a charismatic and endearing main or secondary character, the team decided to keep Death as the main and only player due to the established story and core gameplay. "Nico had been working on animation tests for Death while also researching character design for other characters, including a pumpkin character (who players know as Pump Quinn). Before Magic Design Studios split Pump Quinn and Jerry, however, the original concept was considered for the main protagonist role of Have a Nice Death, as revealed by Meredith Alfroy. The second one is the lazy albeit well-meaning skull-faced employee and union representative, Jerry, who negotiated a breakthrough deal in 1988 by securing a coffee machine in the break room. The game's adorable, Death-idolizing intern Pump Quinn is one of the characters that spawned from the original pumpkin character. These included a pumpkin character that further down the production line was conceptualized into two distinct characters found on Have a Nice Death. Have a Nice Death’s Creative Director Nicolas Leger came up with the early prototypes for Death and a few of the other characters.

RELATED: Chained Echoes Adding New Game+ and More in Future Updates Have a Nice Death: Designing the Characters and the ProtagonistĪt Magic Design Studios, the design of the game started with the characters. While this has been the crux of the game's story for a while, early on there was a possibility that Death was not the main protagonist of the game. However, not everything is right with the company, and Death needs to show the Thanagers and Sorrows who's the boss in the afterlife. Death is the corporate boss at Death Inc., which is a company with a lot of paperwork from collecting the souls of the dead. Have a Nice Death's premise is fairly simple, albeit original and hilarious. While the game has been available in Early Access for a year, only now did the developer reveal that there was a chance at one point that Pump Quinn could have dethroned Death as the protagonist The company is also releasing a new video miniseries on the game, which will introduce Death as the protagonist, the setting, and some of the gameplay aspects of Have a Nice Death to the public. The action-oriented platformer and roguelike Have a Nice Death from French indie game developer Magic Design Studios is readying its final release.
