You are a young aspiring politician, ready to mix up the politics of Mariama, a small island in the middle of the Atlantic. You start with no voters, no one knows you, and honestly, no one cares about you (in politics). Gain popularity by buying ads or taking to shoutr.io to make some noise on social media. But take care, sometimes people will misunderstand what you write.
By strategically working through the ranks you can become president of Mariama! Start with a cozy job in the parliament, move up to minister for dinosaurs, and increase your political power. Having already some political office helps to get elected in higher offices.
A hint for shoutr.io messages: try to write positive things with a lot of positive words in it. Also, people love it if you mention them or their city.
If the web version stays black just reload the page
I like the idea, but I couldn’t run it neither on Mac (doesn’t start) nor on web (black screen with sound).
First of all thank you for the rather rare approach of a more code/story based game. It is a difficult field for such a short period of time. I like that the theme “start with nothing” has been utilized a bit more in this game because you are actually an unknown politician, trying to make a career. The graphics are also perfectly fine for the game. However it was really hard for me to get into the game because nothing is really explained at the start. I was left to figure out the different possibilities and features on my own and failed miserably (who’s my character, what are these positions I can apply for, etc.). Because of that I was quickly frustrated and sadly stopped playing the game. A small tutorial or introduction might have helped me to get into the game. And get me hooked for a while.
Also a small bug report -> the mute sound/music buttons didn’t work for me
Liked the game.
I wish you’d implemented a volume control, or a music toggle. It got kind of loud after a while.
@sg-goennung @agrdev If you reload the page after you get the black screen it should load correctly.
@gildar76 there is a button to disable music/sounds in the top right corner.
@tomfu Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately I did not have time to add a tutorial, but I hoped the controls/mechanics would be simple enough. But if you created the game yourself everything seems obvious…
The doodle style is crazy, like you take a lot of drugs and try to make something on facebook))) But the role play and management was fun, I like it )
Very much enjoyed the premise of the game! I had a hard time getting it to work consistently. Worked first time I loaded it on itch.io, then if I refreshed or reloaded the page, all I would see is a black screen.
The web version is not playable.
The first web link didn’t work but the itch.io link did.
Love the interpretation of the theme. It was hard to figure out how to raise my popularity.
Definitely giving this a 5 stars for theme, this is one of the most unique takes on the LD theme I’ve seen. On my 2nd try I basically spammed the cheapest ad campaign for a while and I managed to get that first position. I personally was afraid to attempt another campaign soon so I just left it in the bg like an idle game til I got enough for another campaign lol. Is there a better approach to playing the game? I couldn’t figure that out but at least my strategy worked for me :)
I had no issues with the web version. This is a really creative concept, I’m assuming there is some kind of simple sentiment analysis being used for the tweeting part, right? That’s super cool! Great work!
@peachtreeoath One approach is to use the shoutr.io messages to gain popularity. Based on the message you will gain, but might also lose some popularity. Try to use the names of the cities to increase the effect. Positive tweets give you more popularity, while negative tweets are bad for you. If you’re curious, here you can find what’s considered good or bad.
@brokenmirrormedia Yeah, you could call it a “sentiment analysis”, however it is really simple, mostly based on a word list (see here if you’re curious). There is some additional stuff going on to prevent you from always spamming the same tweet and some randomization to make it more like real life ;).
I played the web version first, had no idea what i was doing, went instantly for president and spend all money. So I wanted to restart but no matter how often i reloaded i got the black screen with sound that others have reported. So I got the windows version.
Overall fun concept that could use some polishing. I feel there should be some more feedback, like current polls on the outcome of the election. I went for major run many local ads had over 75% popularity and ended third, I have no idea what i should have done different…
A clever idea! I didn’t understand what to do at first and spent all my money before starting the campaign. Haha, oops. It’s an impressive idea to run a campaign sim, and there’s quite a lot in here for a compo!
So I tried the HTML5 Version … The game stays black and I can’t play. However there is some sound I am hearing.