Last night after the weekend just after my "CAP-FIG-CID" game launched on Friday, I heard a wet and angry loud slapping at my front door. My kids screamed in sheer terror at the strange non human sounds of aggression roaring beyond the wooden door that now shook in it's frame! When I opened my door ready to protect my family and kids, I was unready for what was waiting floating in the darkness of the summer night air!
These fish were not happy and had got the word that I had launched a new Steam game calling them "gross". They were livid and demanding a public apology in a fish roar that barely made out understandable words. Fearing my own life and envisioning seeing my poor kids being devoured in front of my own eyes, I dropped to my knees and apologized profusely. Tears filled my eyes and the horrifying floating fish roaring at me caused my body to tremble in horror.
My apology wasn't enough...
The hours of the night passed and slowly the terror of the fish subsided as they became more friendly and less threatening. They made me promise to never eat fish again and even forced me to toss out the eight cans of tuna they found in my pantry as well. I agreed of course without any resistance.
But as the morning hours came, I found myself laughing with the fish so loud as we sat at my kitchen table playing a hilarious round of Pictionary. The fish were incredibly good at using their fins to work a pencil and at scribbling out pictures on paper. The angry sounds were now deep laughs and the beer I had offered them did the trick and perhaps even saved my life! Fish are so funny when they get buzzed or drunk on alcohol, let me tell you!
Somewhere in the night as the horror turned to drunken rounds of table top drawing games with the floating fish, we came to an agreement to simply not call the fish "gross" in this game. To fish, that is the most vile and hurtful thing you can call them. They said that they were totally fine with calling them nasty, especially after they saw how the fear they first filled me with caused me to wet my own jeans when I saw them at my front door. In fact, that's what started their laughs and then me finding the opportunity to offer them some cold suds! I guess you just never know when urinating yourself might save your life! While they didn't agree that cake is delicious and tried to get me to change the cake in my game to "fingerlings", we finally came to an agreement that I could keep the cake in my game as well as long as I didn't call it "delicious".
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In all seriousness, the name change came last night when I was reminded by a Steam friend that technically the part of my original title "Fish Is Gross" (Colors Are Pretty, Fish Is Gross, Cake Is Delicious) was not correct English grammar. He stated that to be grammatically correct, it would need to be "Fish Are Gross" and well.. I wasn't about to change my "FIG" for Fish IS Gross to the initials for "Fish ARE Gross" for obvious reasons, mainly because I don't want to get kicked off the Steam platform as a small indie developer here! :-D
So I decided to brainstorm a new name last night and come up with a name that better fit the nature of this game as it has developed and well.. here it is! I definitely think the abbreviation "FAN'CIE VEER" is a much easier name to both say and remember than the previous "CAP-FIG-CID"!
I thought I'd share the reasoning for the name change and try and add a little humor in the process. Hopefully I made one or two of you chuckle or at the least form an odd smile as you read this!
..Have a great day out there and if you did enjoy this little name change fish story, please share the link here on your social media and with your friends and family! Small indie developers like myself can use all the attention we can get! Please remember to remember the small guys out there whether you might be passing by a mom and pop drive-thru on your way to the national burger chain or whether you turn away the 12 year old boy asking to mow your lawn in favor of the big guys. ..Small "fish" need love too! :-)
Take care all!