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# Just what the Trojan War needed: a huge, explosive gun
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/explojan-horse-brings-guns-brutality-trojan-war/
- Published: 2016-09-29T15:00:51.000Z
- Updated: 2016-09-29T10:14:59.000Z
- Description: The Trojan War is a comedy and a tragedy, a series of deaths that history will remember by its errors rather its feats. When they teach the Trojan War, they talk about a beautiful woman whose face was enough for an armada to be launched and a large wooden horse that defeated an impregnable city. Whe
- Author: Amanda Wallace
- Tags: News, cottontrek, Explojan Horse, freeware, Ludum Dare, war, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

The Trojan War is a comedy and a tragedy, a series of deaths that history will remember by its errors rather its feats. When they teach the Trojan War, they talk about a beautiful woman whose face was enough for an armada to be launched and a large wooden horse that defeated an impregnable city.

When Atlanta-based game maker cottontrek talks about the Trojan War, they do so in a series of explosions.

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[Explojan Horse](https://cottontrek.itch.io/explojan-horse?ref=killscreen.com) is not a game of subtlety. Constructed over a weekend for the latest incarnation of the Ludum Dare game jam, *[Explojan Horse](https://cottontrek.itch.io/explojan-horse?ref=killscreen.com)* is a cross between “an easily recognizable aspect of the classical era of history” and the historical comedies of Monty Python. These are not the battles of great men, constructors of a large trophy and trap, but rather some dudes with a really big gun.

The Trojan War was bloody, as most wars are, especially ancient ones. Homer describes in his epic a battle that is both richly detailed and violent: as a man is “he was run through with a pike in the soft bit below the jaw, and was dragged behind the chariot flopping like a fish caught on a fisher’s line.” Perhaps cottontrek’s over exuberant explosions are not too far off the mark.

*You can find cottontrek’s full game [Explojan Horse on itch.io](https://cottontrek.itch.io/explojan-horse?ref=killscreen.com).*