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# Die, die, and die again in this Twitter-based adventure game
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/die-die-and-die-again-twitter-based-adventure/
- Published: 2015-10-29T12:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:46:43.000Z
- Description: When I scroll through my Twitter feed, I’m never hard-pressed to find selfies, silly jokes, personal anecdotes, opinions on whatever dumb, ignorant thing Donald Trump said recently—but what I don’t expect to find is a Choose Your Own Adventure game, complete with pixel art gifs and a seemingly infin
- Author: Caty Mccarthy
- Tags: News, 8 bit, Leon, Leon Chang, pixel art, Twitter, Yoshi's Island, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

When I scroll through my Twitter feed, I’m never hard-pressed to find selfies, silly jokes, personal anecdotes, opinions on whatever dumb, ignorant thing Donald Trump said recently—but what I don’t expect to find is a Choose Your Own Adventure game, complete with pixel art gifs and a seemingly infinite number of choice-related deaths.

Pixel artist Leon Chang “launched” (or rather “tweeted out”) his social media-based Choose Your Own Adventure game *Leon* on October 21st. While [not the first to make such a game](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/01/writing-a-choose-your-own-adventure-story-on-twitter/?ref=killscreen.com), Chang’s *Leon* is the first to combine both gifs of [original pixel art](http://leyawn.tumblr.com/tagged/pixel?ref=killscreen.com) and hundreds of burnout Twitter accounts, each account linked directly to a choice chosen before it. For example, choose a) to take the elevator, or b) to take the stairs, and a unique path awaits you.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/25/84/2584b75d-4bd6-4cce-8259-f1d1c65abbb5/content/images/previously/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/leon2_big.png)

In *Leon*, I died all sorts of unexpected, silly ways. As an impossibly round pale bird wearing polka-dot pants, said to be Huffin Puffin’ from *Yoshi’s Island* by Chang himself, I made the incorrect decision to stand up while I peed and toppled over, splitting my head open. Game over. I became rattled with social anxiety on the subway at the sight of cooler animals than my own 8-bit spherical self (Teen Turtles, with capital Ts, to be exact), and while that didn’t kill me, deep down I felt it might. I made the rash decision to fight a monster, only to trip and impale myself with my own sword, which happened to be too heavy for me to carry. Game over, again.

In *Leon*, I died all sorts of unexpected, silly ways.

With ten or so minutes to spare, anyone can explore all that Chang’s charming *Leon* has to offer—all its death gags, hints, and 8-bit gifs.

*Start Leon Chang’s Leon from the beginning, [here](https://twitter.com/leonsintro?ref=killscreen.com).*