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Aug 19th 2013, 18:12, by Nate Ralph

So what'd everyone do last week? Oh, that's nice. While we were twiddling about, a number of enterprising game developers made a bunch of first-person shooters. The event was called 7DFPS: a game development jam in the spirit of Ludum Dare, it challenges folks to cobble together something like a first-person shooter in the span of seven days. It ended this weekend—you can sift through the contributions at the game jam's site, but here are some of my favorites.

Shambles

Notch of Minecraft fame probably needs little in the way of introduction. His contribution, dubbed Shambles, is a zombie shooter (groan) with a bit of a twist: weapons and ammunition can only be picked up off of the corpses of police officers, and health can only be picked up off of the corpses of civilians. While you're blasting away undead hordes and picking up little point baubles, you'll have a hefty decision to make: do you hunt down your fellow man, making yourself little better than your braindead foes?

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