Dont Shit Your Pants

How often has someone told you, "Don't Shit Your Pants"? Once? A Million? Never? As entertaining as the context is in both verbal and physical form, it appears there's a group of developers who enjoy the concept enough to make a survival horror game about the idea. Yes, it's probably just a gimmick, given this is a straight-to-browser game, but you must admit, the name grows on you!

Don't Shit Your Pants is a text-adventure game with a bizarre concept for stopping one from stooling one's trousers. How this title could even work in terms of mechanics, gameplay, and function is baffling. However, you can't admit that you'll play this game for the title alone. Let's get playing what could be the world's greatest video game poop joke.

Everybody Poops

You'd argue that 2009 is the golden year of Flash games, with so many creative and engaging titles entering the fray. As aspiring game designers become more competent and knowledgeable about the platform's abilities and limitations, there have been some wonderful, weird, and whacky titles. We can say from the get-go that 'Don't Shit Your Pants' is one of them.

The text-based adventure game is about getting an old, balding man to stop defecating himself for as long as possible. Sounds wildly entertaining, right? The mechanics are simple; players will use command prompts according to the need to poop, ensuring these words inspire the gentlemen to hold it in or use the toilet behind the door.

Yep, that's about it. Players will only be tasked with ensuring that the turtle head stays in. However, the game is surprisingly challenging, making it as replayable as it is comical. Yes, it's short. Yes, it's ridiculous. But the subject matter and well-rounded minimalist design ensure that it fits the stature of the golden age of Flash game design. That supplement of basic silly graphics underlines that point.

It'll only take around thirty seconds for about each round, so why not give it a go? Don't Shit Your Pants is a simple piece of playable media. However, I'll bet you're as intrigued as anyone, no matter your stance on toilet humor. It's a game that won't blow your mind, but it will undoubtedly impress.

Straight Down the Toilet

Don't Shit Your Pants comes when Flash games are king to that player base looking for titles outside the constraints of big publishers. It's almost like the early days of cinemas, where auteurs would share their bizarre, experimental ideas, much to the enjoyment of academic discussion. Sure, Don't Shit Your Pants is one big poop joke, but there are esoteric values even in toilet humor.

Round-Up - Pros & Cons

Pros:

• A silly concept turned into a very entertaining title
• Mechanics allow for high replayability
• Outlandish gameplay offers gamers something different.

Cons:

• Those who enjoy more graphically inclined games will be disappointed
• The vulgarness of the game isn't for everybody