Agony of a Dying MMO

***Agony of a Dying MMO*** is a first-person atmospheric narrative game, created by Salem Hughes as part of the Haunted PS1 Demo Disc 2021 collab.

## Synopsis

*Nobody remembers what came before the awakening. It's as if everyone was just spawned onto the planet fully grown and loyal to a cause. Each faction fights for control, but no one considers what they would do if they won. Cenobites and Nazis torture millions, but they don't know where all the bodies keep coming from. The Resistance and Furries party and fight, but who produces the drugs and weapons? Monsters and demons roam the land loyal to no party and no matter how many are killed their numbers don't seem to thin.*
*And then, there's the voice. "Twenty years" it says. But, what does it mean?*
*Agony of a Dying MMO* is centered around a fictitious MMO game, *Garden of Widows*, and how its last server would be permanently closed down at 11:59 PM on December 31st, 2020, after 20 years of operation. The player takes on the perspective of several users that are experiencing the last 12 hours that the server would be active until it is shut down.

Users who had reached Level 99 claimed to have had strange and disturbing things happen to them as the result of an alleged curse, though some believe this to be a psychosis brought on from extensively playing the game.

Also a hot topic in *Garden of Widows* is Adam, a much-rumored NPC hinted by the developers of the game, Forever Autumn. It is said that whoever finds Adam would be granted ultimate power within the game, or to break the so-called "Level 99 curse".

### Factions

There are four factions in the in-universe game of *Garden of Widows*.

* Resistance - *The Resistance fights for a home to call their own. They take orders from a family of special forces operators, the Pliskins.*
	+ The Pliskins are a reference to Snake Plissken, the protagonist of *Escape from New York* and *Escape from L.A.*, as well as Iroquois Pliskin, an identity once assumed by Solid Snake, the protagonist of the *Metal Gear* video game series.

* Nazis - *The Nazis fight for domination. They torture millions in underground labs in their home base of Altita. They are lead by the nine foot tall reptilian, Supreme Leader Dren.*
	+ It is remarked during gameplay that *Garden of Widows* did not originally have Nazis as a playable faction, and that they were added in at one point.

* Furries - *Furries fight to feed their animalistic nature. They come from the port city of Helden. They are led by the sex addicted Froggy Bottoms.*
	+ Froggy Bottoms being sex addicted is a reference to a conspiracy theory pushed by Alex Jones of *Infowars* fame, in which the government are dumping chemicals into the water that makes frogs gay.

* Cenobites - *Cenobites don't know why they fight. They hail from the Suffering Realm. A place where breath becomes ash and all hope is lost. Cenobites worship the Algen. A giant, torturous floating pyramid.*

## Controls

* WASD keys - Movement
* E key - Talk (works with certain NPCs within the game)
* Ctrl - Crouch
* Shift - Run
* Left click - Shoot
* Right click - Zoom
* Tab - Pause/resume

## Trivia

* If one where to abbreviate the game's name as AaDM and change two of the letters around, they would get "ADaM".