Hi, this is Alex, the asshole who made this :D
While I never though this game would get this popular (and have half the people hating it and loving it) there is a message to this game.
Excuse me if I sound like a dick when I say all this but it's all true.
Theres a rounded number of 6,400,000,000 on this earth, and 150,000 out of that is not high in any case, the percentage doesn't even touch 1/10000 (to be exact, 3/128000 ) of our population, infact it's about half the number of people who die and get born every day, the media over exadurates these numbers and when these things happen to places that don't serve the world any good, we just ignore it and give them bullshit.
My message here is, shut up. Thats really about it, I'm sick and tired of people going on and on about it, yes people die but theres no stopping that, there's nobody to blame for this disaster but us, years of pollution from all the countries in the world are to blame for these problems, now I admit it would happen anyway, but we've made it much more severe.
This game is the result of my anger towards the media biased coverage on it, the world's spite towards america not helping (even though the red cross is american and we have a stupid president causing us to have a deficit AND still paying to help), and the over exaggeration of people on this subject, people are always trying to get pity on this even if it doesn't effect them. Fuck them.
I'm not trying to make myself look tough, but i'm not afraid either, my face is in the game itself and my profile, same as the state I live in, I have my contacts posted right in the details, and if anybody has a problem, they can contact me and many did, and boy I love hatemail :D.
In reality I am a good person, I donated about $50 to the red cross when I heard about this (I'm pretty poor so I don't normaly donate), I know the game would offend a lot of people, but the fact is, lighten up. Have an optimistic view on life, if people played the game and chose to think of the game as the creator showing his anger and actualy use logic when thinking about how he should react about playing it, then there wouldn't be nearly as many pissed off people.
Newgrounds is known to have sick and disgusting games, if people are offended by my game, it's there fault for coming to Newgrounds anyway.
Some people make think I hate the media, I don't, at least I don't if it's unbiased (indymedia.org - rarly go here though). It wasn't an attack on the media, it was attack on the whole situation and the way it is being used.
Think about this, more people die of smoking in the world every 3 days then people have died from this tsunami in 10 days, and yet we focus more on the tsunami, granted they are both completely diffrent situations, but I think I have a point when saying you shouldn't be able to pick and choose which disaster deserves more attention, we pick up on these things whenever it can effect our economy or representation to the rest of the world. America barely cared about it till a few days later when the rest of the world complained about how little we did (even though we contributed more then any other country in the world even before we sent 80 times more coverage, colon powell, and the whole republican clown show there).
I've received about 50 emails so far based on this game, mostly by 16 - 20 year olds who can't even spell the game's name right (besides the point). About 40 emails of the 50 were hatemail, all were offended and giving me trash about it, calling me gay (as if making a game like this and being sexually attracted to the same gender have any connection and as if being gay is an insult (america is filled with homophobes--besides the point)). Now 40 out of 50 email being bad, think about it, would I even get those 40 if I didn't make a game with such shock value?
If the game was a nice game based on saving people and being friendly and all that stuff do you really think it would of had anywhere NEAR the same amount of attention? Here is a movie based on the event, it was submitted before my game (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/211946) , it has 3,503 views, my game has 48,837 views, see the diffrence? Theres another game on it too, (http://newgrounds.com/portal/view/210650) , it's not as evil as my game...it has 2,572. If a game sparks attention...ANY attention, it attracts instant popularity. People are more focused on what they want to get pissed about rather then what they want to be happy about. I know I'm bring this up again but I've donated $50 bucks just because I DO feel some sympathy for these lives even though it might not be so obvious :) , but I've asked almost every person whos emailed me, only 2 people have donated to helped these people, and these 2 people were two of the 10 people that were positive about my game.
150,000+ people died, most of which have never been to America or even have friends or reletives who have even visited America, and I doubt many of those people have been to newgrounds.com let alone play my game, is my game really that evil? So far the only bad it's done is get people who are too lazy to do anything about it a reason to be angry and believe that emailing death threats to an 18 year old lunatic like myself is really going to help the 150,000+ people who died or their families.
I'm not trying to reach the world my message, if i was then i would have executed the game a bit diffrently, i'm just trying to make a game for people like me, people who visit my website and my friends all of a sick demented and very dry sense of humor.
Now mind you I wish no harm anybody, but it's just the idea of having a game like this funny to me, what i'm highly against those is actualy taking the game seriously or letting impressionable kids play it, if I had a son/daughter, the last thing i would do is let him/her play my game till he/she was at least 13 and strong minded about the matter.
Newgrounds is known for having offencive games, and thats what I made for it, and it's what i'm known for (my Sniper's Revenge and AO:War on Iraq games).
Anyway, thank you every body for the popularity this game has gained, and as long as your mature about it, I will respect EVERYBODIES opinions on the matter. Just because a person doesn't like my game doesn't mean I don't like him/her.