No fail state
Video game concept
68
games
15platforms
It's impossible to reach a fail state, game over screen, forced reload/restart, or similar.
Notable people involved: Markus Persson 'Notch', Hidetaka Miyazaki, Daniel Rosenfeld, Erin Robinson and Ben Prunty
Alternate name: Impossible to lose
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Contrast: permadeath
See also: unlimited lives, deathless
This means mainly that game progress is unaffected by whatever failures player character encounters (e.g. death), but game progress continues unaffected (no need to restart a mission for example). Player may lose some type of progress, as long as it's not game progress, for example death penalty may exist.
See also: unlimited lives, deathless
This means mainly that game progress is unaffected by whatever failures player character encounters (e.g. death), but game progress continues unaffected (no need to restart a mission for example). Player may lose some type of progress, as long as it's not game progress, for example death penalty may exist.
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The first No fail state video game was released in 1987.
Epic Games, Mojang, Linden Research and Runic Games published most of these games.