So, in an attempt to make some cash, I've been working with a friend of mine to make a video game for cell phones. When at the beginning of the game, I'd just come out to him as trans not too long before (a few weeks) and he was all cool with it...put our names on the game and used Chris, much to my glad surprise.
Lately he's been spiteful as we've been nearing the end and have a crapton of work to do. He's been using my birth name usually, which I let him get away with because he's still getting used to the idea. But now the only time he calls me Chris is when we're in the middle of a fight, and he uses it like an insult (in the same tone he would call someone a sh**head or whatnot). And now tonight, I find that he's reverted my name on the credits to my birthname, not my preferred name.
I called him on it and explained, no, I need this in my preferred name for my resume, as I'm changing it and I don't want the questions about it later, and told him to change it back. To which he replied, "It's not your legal name, go get it changed and THEN I'll change it after release." Which resulted in a big argument with him ending with "I'll think about changing it back if I feel like it, (femalename)".
This REALLY got under my skin, as if someone else has the right to decide what I'm called on something that ~I~ did half the work on. Never mind he put himself as his nickname, but then he argued it was just a shortening of his name....WELL, CHRIS IS JUST A RESPELLING/SHORTENING OF MY BIRTHNAME, YOU <I cannot control my vocabulary. Insert half hour of profanity here>!!!
/end emorant
I hope this is a stress-related thing on his part, because otherwise I'd have some choice words for him myself. How well versed is he in Asian-language profanities? >:-)
Plenty of people use nicknames/abbreviations of their birth names in credits. Heck, no one's called me by my birth name since elementary school, and I use the abbreviation on university exam papers...
So, is your game going to be on iTunes soon? What's it about? I've tried tons of games on my itouch and the only one I really like is Skeeball, if thats not the dorkiest thing ever :icon_redface:
Wont be developed for Itunes anytime soon--Itunes uses a different operating system than other smartphones...and Apple decided to be (*&$*# and charges people just to develop on their software. So depends on how well it does on other phone systems...it's developed for non-Iphone touchscreen-enabled phones at the moment. It's a puzzle game, and hopefully will be out around Christmas...but not saying anything more just this moment just in case it gets pushed back a bit more. You'll see me shamelessly plug it once it's released (and I'm hoping it won't violate rules, since all the purchases are going toward my tit removal :D).