Off with their heads... for fun! Game designers create simulator so players can try out a guillotine

Video games normally give the user a feeling of complete control - from fighting gangsters to driving a sports car, the player is normally in charge.
But this game turns the tables on users - as they are at the mercy of a guillotine.
Players don goggles and place their heads over a board, making them feel as if their neck is on a chopping block when they play 'Disunion'.

Off with their heads... for fun! Players can try out a guillotine - and experience what life is like when you're headed for the chop

Grisly game: The simulator makes people think they're staring into a bucket that will collect their head

By looking through the goggles, a simulator creates the effect that the user is surrounded by a crowd, and when they look down they can see a bucket, where their head will drop once they've faced the chop.

'This is basically an old french guillotine simulator.'
The creators behind the game regularly upload 'quirky' games that everyone can play.

Friends can help 'contribute' to the experience by whacking their friend's on the back of the neck and making them think they've had their head chopped off

 

Virtual guillotine can be a real pain in the neck for gamers

Heads will roll! Users gasp as they experience how terrifying it is to have your neck on the line

They wrote: 'We created Unicorn7.org, because we we're sad that we couldn’t easily find and play games that our friends have made at game jams that we didn’t organize or participate in.
'Now we have a web platform that everyone can upload a game to, and now we're happy again.'
The device is best known for its use in France, in particular during the French Revolution.
The terrifying weapon remained France's standard method of judicial execution - until capital punishment was abolished in 1981.
The last person to ever face the grisly guillotine in France was Hamida Djandoubi, on September 10, 1977.