Almost all of my joke games are based on real events/real people/real in-jokes. Everybody knows about the Charisma games, that really goes without saying, but did you know my old old joke game Super Mario's Bro Party was primarily sourced from in-jokes between myself and my girlfriend at the time? Oh, what fun we had. I think some of it was also from another friend, but I can't really remember at all.
This is notable because I remember sharing that game on MFGG and lying and saying it was a friend and their friend's in-jokes, and I had a reason for doing that but I don't really want to explain that because it's rather complicated, honestly. Nonetheless, it totally wasn't a "friend of a friend" thing going on, it was mine and my ex's various weird in-jokes surrounding some stupid stuff circa August 2012 (when the game was made, but not when I released it).
Other than that, an early concept for Mario Teaches Flying was that Mario would meet a bunch of real life friends during the second act, but then that whole thing got canned because I stopped caring about making games around that time. Pity, that.
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This is notable because I remember sharing that game on MFGG and lying and saying it was a friend and their friend's in-jokes, and I had a reason for doing that but I don't really want to explain that because it's rather complicated, honestly. Nonetheless, it totally wasn't a "friend of a friend" thing going on, it was mine and my ex's various weird in-jokes surrounding some stupid stuff circa August 2012 (when the game was made, but not when I released it).
Other than that, an early concept for Mario Teaches Flying was that Mario would meet a bunch of real life friends during the second act, but then that whole thing got canned because I stopped caring about making games around that time. Pity, that.