Hey everybody!

Leene here this time, so excited! This is my first post here so let's start with some light topics: Let’s talk about..  
(╯Õ_Õ)╯✿ THE.  GRIM. REAPER. ✿ 

Death has been personified for a long time and Grim Reapers are everywhere in the media - cartoons, books. Everybody knows what the character usually looks like: A skeleton in a long black robe and with a scythe. In western media, death is usually pictured as a bad character but I really enjoy the idea that he is more neutral in character. He just has his job to do.

I especially like the grim reaper characters in: The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Terry Pratchett's Discworld, Meet Joe Black(I was a kid when I first saw this movie, ok? :D). I'm sure you have a favourite Grim Reaper too? Let me know in the comments! :)

Why are Grim Reapers so loved? There might be different reasons: They have a distinctive style, they have power over people, they have style, they are respected and feared. They are very extremely morbid and dark characters, and because of that they have a great comedic value as well.

I find something really funny about this picture. Also the idea that you can have babies with the Death incarnation in The Sims is quite ironic. Dark humor and jokes about death would make a long blog post so maybe some other time... (Hey, psst, kids, I heard you like some dank death memes, I post some morbid death themed humor for my own and others entertainment on our Facebook page)

GRIMS IN GAMES?

There are not many games about death as a character. Usually he has an action role where he uses his scythe as a weapon and most of the times he is also not the main character in the game. 

I will list some cool games here, where you CAN become the character or the character has a big role in the game:

Peace, Death

Grim Fandango

Manual Samuel

If there are some other good games with Grim Reaper, let me know. ^^

DEATH AND TAXES

I came up with the idea for Death and Taxes when I watched this short animation: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BETa92ALukA

What if the Grim worked by not moving from door to door but in a more impersonal way, from an office? I realised that this would make some really interesting moral questions to put players into. The moral dilemma sounded a bit similar to the one in Papers, Please! and I knew that I really wanted to play a game like that. But it didn't exist so I had to start making one. So this was the story how it all got started. ^^

During the Death and Taxes development, people brought to my attention to this series about a guy working in an office FOR the Grim Reaper: PurgaTony. The game is not inspired by these series but I highly recommend it, it is very entertaining ^^. Some other people have brought out the similarities with the Death Note. I have seen the movies but they don’t have much to do with with Death and Taxes either, because the game talks more about the inevitability of death, not killing for fun or simply deciding who is good or bad.

I could talk about this topic for a really long time but basically: I really like to see different Grim Reapers in media and hope there will be some more non-typical death characters. I also want Death and Taxes players to get the opportunity to play as the Grim Reaper they like and make their own stories.

Oh! And we will also have a character creation (“Make-Your-Own-Grim”) in the full game. Here are some of the clothing options:

Thanks for reading if you got so far!

❤ Much love! ❤

-Leene