PUP’s New Video Is an Immersive, Choose-Your-Own Adventure Video Game
"28 WAYS TO DIE. 16 ALIENS. 10+ BEERS. 4 WAYS FOR PUP TO SURVIVE.”
the video for “Old Wounds” — directed, as usual, by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux — is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style video game where you play as PUP’s tour manager and have to get them back to their hotel safely after a sold-out show. It’s harder than it sounds, and it usually involves the members of PUP dying horribly. On Twitter, PUP sums up the appeal: “28 WAYS TO DIE. 16 ALIENS. 10+ BEERS. 4 WAYS FOR PUP TO SURVIVE.”
“This video is one of the craziest things we’ve done as a band,” says frontman Stefan Babcock. “I’m so proud of this thing, and am absolutely convinced that Jeremy is a total savant. We actually each wrote our own individual storylines. From Steve’s sports obsession to Zack’s weirdo sci-fi brain soup, and Nestor’s unnatural love of pizza to me going off the deep end in the wilderness… this video is pure PUP.” Watch below.
