{"id":1200,"date":"2026-04-25T11:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T15:56:27","slug":"challenge-go-afterlife-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/2026\/04\/25\/challenge-go-afterlife-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge Go &#8211; Afterlife mode"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Version 2026.4.24 introduces Afterlife mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a monster or target hits Ray, he becomes a spirit. His sprite becomes translucent and &#8220;Afterlife&#8221; displays next to the time. The player can continue exploring the level, but upon reaching the warp, it disappears, preventing logging of a high score on that round. Other hazards, such as bombs, moving blocks, and hazardous terrain (e.g. water, slime, fire, magma, cacti, spikes, holes [pits\/sky\/space]) don&#8217;t induce an afterlife on contact, instead &#8220;reincarnating&#8221; Ray immediately by resetting the level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is essentially an Easy Mode with repercussions!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2e006358fed3611df3863c95392fefdd\"><a href=\"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/challenge-go\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/challenge-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Play here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Challenge Go - Afterlife Mode\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9duqva0j4-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Afterlife mode: if a monster hits you, you can continue playing the level, but won&#8217;t be able to warp to the next area or register a high score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[178,38,177,175,57,181,179,180,176],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","tag-block-game","tag-chips-challenge","tag-chipschallenge","tag-chucks-challenge","tag-gamemaker","tag-indie-game","tag-puzzle-game","tag-retro-gaming","tag-sokoban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connorhawke.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}