Image: Joe Williams.
Babysitting is a hard job because babies are irresponsible. They'll drink whatever's under the sink and stick forks in power outlets. It's not that they don't want to live, they just don't understand how life works, and that's part of why taking care of a newborn is so hard. A new game developed by Joe Williams called Who's Your Daddy turns this struggle into a hilarious multiplayer match.It's a crash-course in child rearing with a suicidal, self-destructive infant son hell bent on climbing into an oven or being electrocuted. It's black comedy at its finest, and you can play an early version of it right now.The PC parenting simulator pits two players against each other, making one a father desperate to baby-proof and keep his child from harm, and the other an extremely disturbing baby with one thing on its mind: death.As the father, players will have to close cabinets, install baby-proof electrical outlet covers, put away toys, remove access to spaces the baby can fall into, and perform dozens of other tasks to ensure there are no household dangers the baby can kill himself with in order to "win." Baby players, meanwhile can toddle around the house, play with forks around power outlets, climb into bathtubs full of running water, and eat batteries like candy.The game may sound gruesome, but the hilariously rendered infant model that toddles with its arms sticking straight out and a generic father model lend a ridiculous tone to the game that prevents you from taking it seriously.The alpha version is available right now, but the game's been Greenlit for Steam, and will be available as a full release in 2016. I hope the baby character model looks exactly the same when in the final version. That's a face only a father could love.