It is good someone took a heavy topic (suicide) to see what comes out of it. Perhaps some worthy idea to be reused in some bigger product even. Although, right now it seems bit strange, a heavy topic, yet it seems like a light game? But maybe I am just not able to vision it right. Also, one thing to take into consideration when dealing with topic like suicide is the conclusion they came about talking of that subject. For they had this talk show where they were hoping to prevent suicides, and that show resulted in more suicides happening that night.
Social psychologists came to conclusion that when ever suicide is even talked about, it becomes more acceptable. That people who are thinking of suicide, one thing keeping them from doing that is, that they feel it is not acceptable to do so. So when it is being talked on TV, or it is told on newspaper that someone else have done, then they feel like it is more acceptable for themselves too to do it. Hence, be careful how you handle this topic.
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Thanks for the heads up about possibly glorifying suicide. I'll change my backstory. I had hoped to approach such a deep and heavy subject, mainly due to the 2 celebrities that recently committed suicide, while the topic was fresh in the public eye. The light and cartoony presentation was not to take away from the seriousness of the topic of suicide or depression, but use it as an easier way to break the ice on such a subject. I'm sure that you have heard of 'Bert the Turtle' and the whole concept of "Duck and Cover", which dealt with the very serious subject matter of nuclear threats upon America. This message was presented to hundreds of schoolchildren with a cartoon turtle and a catchy little jingle, followed by live action demonstrations of ducking and covering. What this does is catches your attention and helps you to remember the topic more easily than if you had someone just start with an explanation or expounding on a subject. But, thanks again mentioning how I may actually end up doing the reverse of what I had hoped and intended to do with my speed game.
I like your idea for a game. Continue in prayer and ask God to guide you as you are dealing with the subject. Things that are personal and passionate for us is one way God uses us to do certain tasks. I think one way we can keep from glorifying the idea of suicide is by helping people realize the affect their actions have on those family members and friends left behind, especially children. They need to think of those things and also realize that tomorrow is a new day. God is sovereign and in control. Somehow, they need to change their perspective and see some hope for a better tomorrow.
Commenting about that suicide topic again, this might be useless, since I dont know what to think of this myself either. But in these maybe two last days, it seems that suicide topic keeps popping up to me from all around. Perhaps God is trying to tell me something that I am not able to understand. One possibility could be that there is either in world right now something about suicide topic going on all around, either in positive or negative sense, or then it might be just around me, and maybe even part of it is that you will talk about the subject something that no one else can.
As example about the topic popping up is that there was this facebook update about a guy i knew who died three years ago. I always thought he died of natural cause like hear attack, but today i saw hes wifes post where she started that it is now three years since her husbands suicide. So maybe you shouldnt give up that topic just like that because of what i warned earlier, but pray about it first. Maybe it is such a time, that you even have some message about it, or maybe someone else figures it out while playing your game. So pray about it.