Suicide Man, development thread

FjantInc

Although it's still really early I thought that I'd share what I'm working on. I'm not going to say anything about game mechanics, but in short the game is about a man trying to commit suicide

I'm only working on this on my time off (and when not drinking beer with my friends so it'll take a while before this one is finished. I'm estimating some time in the end of summer if everything goes well. I'll try to keep regular updates and will also use this as promotion. By keeping a developer blog (coming later this week hopefully) over at my website, I'll try and build a fan base (with the help of Facebook and Twitter). So we'll see if it works That's also why I changed my username from Undersky to Fjant Inc. (my company), to tie everything together.

Anyhow, here's a first draft of my title screen.



Edit: Damn, wrong part of the forum and I can't change.

Edit2: And how do I display the image directly? An example instead of the "explainatory" text below would be better...

outasite

html code:
Enclose this statement with < >
img src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g442/Mordini-Arts/icon-1.gif" /

FjantInc

Aha, simple as that. I was confused with the "put code within backticks" text. Thanks!

outasite

Yep no prob hah sorry. I was trying to think of a nifty way to show you.

You can right click on it and say inspect element (Chrome)
View > View Source (Safari)

To get examples.

gyroscope

Hi FjantInc; sorry to tell you – at an educated guess, Apple will not accept this game for obvious reasons...

jonmulcahy

FjantInc said:

Edit: Damn, wrong part of the forum and I can't change.

Where did you want it to go?

love the graphics by the way

jonmulcahy

gyroscope said:
Hi FjantInc; sorry to tell you – at an educated guess, Apple will not accept this game for obvious reasons...

i don't think he will have a problem. AdultSwim has had 5 minutes to kill yourself in the app store for awhile now:
http://games.adultswim.com/mobile/five-minutes-to-kill-yourself-iphone-game.html

FjantInc

Hmm, it seems you can't quote while on a ipad...

@gyroscope, well, the player takes the role to save the man trying to commit suicide. If he dies, then you're game over, much as any game :-) so I'm hoping for it. Worst case scenario would be a name change.

@jonmulcahy, thanks! And if you could change it to Announce your game I'd be a happy camper!

gyroscope

jonmulcahy said:
i don't think he will have a problem. AdultSwim has had 5 minutes to kill yourself in the app store for awhile now:
http://games.adultswim.com/mobile/five-minutes-to-kill-yourself-iphone-game.html

Hi Jon, thanks for info. Wow sort of; so they'll ditch anything to do with drugs or sex but killing yourself is OK... strange world.

gyroscope

Hi again FjantInc;

FjantInc said:

@gyroscope, well, the player takes the role to save the man trying to commit suicide. If he dies, then you're game over, much as any game :-) so I'm hoping for it. Worst case scenario would be a name change.

Aah, I see. I thought... well, you know what I thought... ;-) Good luck, and as you say, the w.c.s would be a name-change.

:-)

tenrdrmer

FjantInc said:
Hmm, it seems you can't quote while on a ipad…

you can you just have to hold the quote link down and then click open when it pops up.

kapser

It might be accepted, depending on how depressing the game is. Maybe you just need to change the name a bit.

Karoshi hit the appstore, and it's a game where the objective is to kill yourself. It is, however, cartoony.

butterbean

Something about this one seems a bit darker than 5 mins. to kill yourself by Adult Swim, because the word "Suicide" seems bolder although the Adult Swim one is clearly very harsh too lol

Doesn't hurt to try and submit, and if they reject it, there are other names you could come up with like "Kamikaze Man" or "Destructo-Man" or something like that.

In the beginning of the app, it wouldn't hurt to put a disclaimer on there that says " This game in no way supports or encourages behavior indicated in this game... blah blah yadda yadda"

FjantInc

Thanks for the input. I can assure you that this will be a comical game. The graphics will be cartoonish and cheerful. This title is just a wip and not complete. I'll also do an animated promo which'll show the game from the comical side. But it's always good to get other peoples oppinions. Thanks!

StormyStudio

Love the title image (at the top) very very nice indeedy...

on the subject of the word 'suicide'

check out this thread on touch arcade, where the game name was changed.
Rooftop Escape (Previous named 'Surviving After Suicide')

http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=93885&highlight=suicide

FjantInc

Thanks!

Hmm, it seems I'll need some backup plan for the name... just in case.

"Don't-Commit-Suicide-Kids Man"?

Metronome49

Lol

"Don't-Commit-Suicide-Kids Man"?

FjantInc

As we all know, the search function sucks. Tried searching "Suicide man" and this thread was the 18th post...

Anyhow, here's another update:

FjantInc

Oh, and I've created a Facebook page and a Twitter account:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fjant-Inc/202317469804559?v=wall

http://www.twitter.com/FjantInc

Jamwithno

Dude I can not wait till this game comes out it looks like a great game.

FjantInc

Time for a small update. I started with the protagonist, but didn't like the way he looked... So I started over and this is an early wip of him.

<img src="http://www.fjant.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/frank01.jpg" />
<img src="http://www.fjant.se/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/frank02.jpg" />

Oh ffs, isn't this the correct code? I've tried several different versions but nothing works.