death loop

Noun

1. A situation in which a player respawns and inevitably dies, only to respawn in the exact same situation, causing the game to loop indefinitely.
   • 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...
   • The death loop represents a limit of the game system as well as the pleasures associated with fort-da present in the playing of digital games. Rather than the player failing, the machine has failed. As a type of bug,...