Ask Japan, rejected from MacApp Store, released as opensource

gand

Ask Japan is a simple anti-nuclear game with a little surprise at the end.

You are in a Nuclear Power Plant and something goes wrong… you will not survive.
Hit to destroy atoms as quick as possible, they become smaller and faster each level.
Sometimes an hydrant help you. You will not survive with more than 100 atoms left.

The use of the Smiling Sun® is licensed by OOA Fonden / www.smilingsun.org

mangaroo

It's kind for you to share the source, although it probably would have been accepted if it wasn't referring to japan in the name you know?

gand

Thanks Mangaroo, I was not surprised from Apple rejection, elsewhere I'd used another kind of insect/object to blast

Behind this game there are two ideas:
1) The story that can be expanded more and more, es. I wish to add, before arriving in final "nucleus" room, a sort of arcade/puzzle/run/jump levels (as many as we want), where the protagonist can collect water drops or other things.
2) The end of the game, where you ever will not survive because this is an anti-nuclear game.

As opensource game everybody can contribute to expand the game.

SlickZero

They will publish it if you remove Japan from the title, and any other reference it may have in the game. It's just in bad taste to use the disaster in Japan as a subject for a game. Absolutely nothing against you personally, but it's a taboo subject, and will be for many, many years to come.

GLGAMES

let's see if i can do any changes to it.

gand

The aim of the game is feel powerless against nuclear disaster; this is because you can't restart but only quit at the end of the game where you always loose. The name is related only to Fukushima nuclear power plant.

You can substitute atoms image with a cockroach but obviously is not the purpose of the game.

I've submitted the game to Mac App Store as I've only that account and not the iOS Store one. Probably I'll submit a less problematic "No thanks" removing all references to Japan.