Editing Death message

In [[Chip's Challenge]], the '''death messages''' occur in whenever any living [[Chip]] tile, defined as the moving Chip, any other Chip tiles, and the [[Swimming Chip]], is killed.

== MSCC ==
In [[Microsoft's version of Chip's Challenge]], there are six messages, which note the cause of death. These messages can be edited using [[CCHack]].

* '''Ooops! Look out for creatures!''' - Chip was hit by a [[monster]].

* '''Ooops! Don't step in the fire without fire boots!''' - Chip stepped on [[fire]] without [[fire boots]], except when finding the fire on the lower layer of the [[grid]] under a tile other than a [[block]].

* '''Ooops! Chip can't swim without flippers!''' - Chip stepped on [[water]] without [[flippers]], except when finding the water on the lower layer of the grid under a tile other than a block.

* '''Ooops! Watch out for moving blocks!''' - a block (or an [[ice block]]) landed on Chip, from sliding on [[ice]], [[force floor]]s, through a [[teleport]], or landing on Chip after being cloned from a [[clone block]].

* '''Ooops! Don't touch the bombs!''' - Chip ran into a [[bomb]], again unless he found it on the lower layer of the grid under a tile other than a block.

* '''Ooops! Out of time!''' - Usually the rarest of the six, this results when the [[time limit]] expires.

In occurrences of the [[Transparency Glitch]], a random death message may be shown as part of the result caused by the crash.

Chip's status is always kept by Chip's Challenge on coordinate [22, 32], which will allow the player to [[Data Resetting|reset]] the status and avoid being killed by fatal obstacles.

== Tile World ==
[[Tile World]] 2 has 11 different death messages. They are chosen randomly and depend only on whether the player ran out of time:
* Messages that appear only when the player runs out of time:
** "Well, that was an untimely demise."
** "You do know there's a time limit on this level, right?"
** "Look, we don't have all the time in the world!"
** "Alert: The system has determined that you are either moving or thinking too slowly."
* Messages that appear only when the player dies by means other than running out of time:
** "Whoops... Let's try again."
** "Why don't ya watch where you're going?"
** "Getting killed can be injurious to Chip's health!"
** "Uh-oh: Chip performed a fatal operation and was terminated."
** "Hey, are you doing that on purpose?"
** "Great, now look what you did!"
* Messages that can appear regardless of cause of death:
** "The idea here is to win the level, not lose it!"

As of Tile World 2.1, messages are stored in a separate, modifiable plaintext file called messages.txt, which is located in the ''res'' folder, allowing users to create their own death messages.

== Chip's Challenge 2 ==
[[Chip's Challenge 2]], as well as the steam re-release of the original game, have two death messages, which cannot be edited:
* OUT OF TIME (when the player runs out of time)
* OOPS (all other deaths)

== Trivia ==

* The death messages have entered into Chip's Challenge folklore as catchphrases, which have been known to recall memories of Chip's Challenge in even the most infrequent players. The most well-known ones are generally ''Look out for creatures'' and ''Chip can't swim without flippers''.

== See also ==

* [[Decade message]]
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