## Description
_Lose/Lose_ is a game about choice and consequence veiled as a classic top-
down shooter. Players control a spaceship with one life and an endless amount
of bullets, engaging the enemy. Instead of random monsters, each enemy
represents a file on the player’s actual hard drive. Enemies are procedurally
generated based on actual file extensions and when an enemy is shot, the
extension is revealed. Destroying an enemy physically destroys the related
file on the hard disk, removing it permanently.
There is no option to determine which files can be used, so the damage ranges
from a random text file to a crucial system file, selected randomly from the
hard disk. The game starts with the player’s home directory, going after the
documents first and next the preference files. Before starting the game,
players are warned explicitly that it is not a joke and that playing the game
will permanently remove files on the user’s computer. The only option to avoid
that is either never to shoot or simply not to play the game.
When the player is hit by an enemy the game is over and the game itself is
deleted.
The game’s high scores are listed on the developer’s project page.
Lose/Lose