What inspired the cartoonishly violent gameplay of Just Die Already

Simply Die Already is an open-world sandbox sport with gameplay that revolves round previous individuals getting violently mangled. It’s bought every part gamers would possibly need: previous individuals, inflatable pool toys you may bounce on, rolling a severed groin right into a slender space to amass collectibles, you identify it.

I used to be in a position to ask the sport designer and sport design comic, Armin Ibrisagic, some powerful questions on ageing, blue vehicles, and Morgan Freeman.

PCI: What impressed you to go from goats to previous individuals? At any level whereas making/taking part in Goat Simulator, did you ever suppose to your self: “Man, this could be hilarious with an octogenarian as an alternative”?

Ibrisagic: When you concentrate on it, previous individuals and goats are literally very comparable. For us, it grew to become apparent that we wished to make a sport about previous individuals as quickly as we had our first previous individual get hit by a automobile in our first prototype. After that, we simply put extra previous individuals within the sport and extra loopy issues that wished to harm you.

PCI: When individuals grow old, they have a tendency to care much less about what different individuals suppose. Had been any of the actions in Simply Die Already influenced by stuff you’ve heard the aged say or do?

Ibrisagic: The primary issues that impressed the actions you are able to do in Simply Die Already come from our personal predictions of how retirement goes to appear like within the coming 30-50 years. In our sport, everyone seems to be busy taking part in video video games and nobody is taking good care of the aged, so you’re kind of left to your individual gadgets. The true goal of the sport is definitely to arrange you for the retirement that’s awaiting you if you’re taking part in the sport or studying this interview.

PCI: There’s an unlockable hand grenade full of bees within the sport. Should you had a type of, who or what would you throw it at? And why? And HOW?!

Ibrisagic: I might throw it at any sport journalist web site that provides us a nasty overview. And sure, that could be a authorized menace™.

PCI: How do the characters hold strolling round after their decrease halves get separated from their torsos? Does the world of Simply Die Already have black mages aiding the aged?

Ibrisagic: Loosen up, it’s not actual. They’ll hold strolling when their decrease halves are separated from their torsos as a result of they’re imaginary sport characters.

PCI: The billboards within the sport are hilarious. I believe I noticed a Requiem for a Dream reference as properly. What’s the method for deciding what jokes make it onto the billboards?

Ibrisagic: Thanks! Glad you loved them. Typically, the method in making them is that the entire staff pitches billboard concepts to the artists that make the billboard. We then begin huffing paint thinner till the voices in our head inform us which billboards to choose. We use the identical method to determine on all of our in-game options as properly.

PCI: The drivers within the sport all drive the identical blue automobile. Additionally, they’re continually rushing and crashing. Why is that? Are all of the drivers previous individuals?

Ibrisagic: Good catch. The drivers are continually rushing as a result of there are not any pace restrict indicators. If it annoys you as a participant, you may divert site visitors by placing trampolines within the highway and making the vehicles hit them and bounce off someplace else. You too can destroy vehicles if that’s what you wish to do, though I’d suggest doing it solely in-game, as a result of it’s most likely unlawful to do in actual life. With that mentioned, I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know.

PCI: There’s clearly plenty of satire in Simply Die Already. What’s the principle theme that the staff hoped to make gamers take into consideration whereas taking part in? Or am I projecting right here?

Ibrisagic: The concept behind the sport is to arrange younger gamers for the retirement that they’re probably going to expertise as soon as they get previous. We hope it’s going to make gamers extra thoughtful towards the aged in actual life. In case you actually dislike boomers, our sport can be a greater outlet on your feelings than heckling them in actual life.

PCI: Organizing a set of targets as a bucket record could be very intelligent. That jogs my memory of the film The Bucket Record. Do you suppose individuals will mod in Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson?

Ibrisagic: I hope so! We’re not allowed so as to add actual individuals into our sport as a result of legal professionals are nerds, but it surely needs to be completely tremendous for modders to do in the event that they wish to.

PCI: What’s one thing you wished to have within the sport, however needed to be minimize attributable to time, and/or going too far?

Ibrisagic: We had a glue gun that enabled gamers to connect whichever objects to one another. This was extraordinarily liable to bugs since you could possibly connect a transferring automobile to a different transferring automobile, otherwise you might connect a participant to the underside of a steamroller. We ended up eradicating it, however we would add it once more if sufficient individuals begin bugging us to do it.

We additionally had an thought so as to add an merchandise that may flip any merchandise into some other merchandise within the sport at random. You could possibly find yourself making a brush flip right into a sword, a catapult, or a constructing. Clearly, this was one thing that tousled the sport utterly and was an effective way of inducing crashes. I nonetheless miss it although, since I get pleasure from producing bugs.

PCI: Just like the final query, what kind of tips have been there to make sure that the sport’s content material wouldn’t go too far with the humor?

Ibrisagic: Proper now, the sport is violent, but it surely’s not as violent as, for instance, Itchy & Scratchy in The Simpsons. So we figured so long as we’re not going additional than that then every part needs to be okay. Proper..?

PCI: An previous individual driving a steamroller into site visitors worries me, even in a online game. What in-game motion would you most not wish to see an previous individual replicate?

Ibrisagic: I strongly discourage any previous individuals to tie fireworks to their our bodies to attempt to attain any blimps flying above their metropolis. Actually, something that you could possibly do in Simply Die Already I might discourage individuals from doing in actual life. And that features crossing the road or placing on a hat.

We want to sincerely thank Armin Ibrisagic for taking the time to warn us about hats and threatening us with bees. I realized lots, and I’m positive you probably did, too, mild reader. Be certain and test again with us this week when our Simply Die Already overview goes stay. I’ll add photos of the swelling in an replace if Armin is sad with the rating.