Eurovision: world domination through the power of song by Tijn
EUROVISION: WORLD DOMINATION THROUGH THE POWER OF SONG
In this game you are the leader of a European country who wants world domination. But such things can't be done alone, so you need friends.
Instead of going through the boring route of diplomacy and politics, you will be using a more UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPON: your voting powers in the Eurovision Song Contest to gain the favour of your fellow European countries (and Australia).
By awarding countries with many points, they will like you for it and return points back the next year. Can you form a big enough power block to win the Eurovision Song Contest? If you can do that, the world belongs to you!
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HOW TO PLAY:
By giving many points to a country, you will befriend them and they will return the favour in the next year. So by strategically awarding points to the countries you want in your group of friends, you can manipulate the results in the long run and eventually become winner of the Eurovision Song Contest and thus the world.
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This is my first entry for Ludum Dare. I'm not really a game developer, so I created a website instead. I hope it works, because the code isn't that great. If you're having trouble, maybe trying a different browser might help.
The game depends heavily on music (it's a song contest after all). I've created a lot of songs during this weekend for this game, so please turn up your speakers and enjoy the beautiful Euro sounds.
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All code, art & music has been made by me during the weekend of LD32.
The sound track is on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/martijnwf/sets/ld32-eurovision-world
I used http://www.bandnamemaker.com and http://www.songname.net to generate the random band/song names that are shown in the game. I tried my best to remove any profanities from the generated names. If you do come across a name which offends you, I'm sorry about that.
In this game you are the leader of a European country who wants world domination. But such things can't be done alone, so you need friends.
Instead of going through the boring route of diplomacy and politics, you will be using a more UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPON: your voting powers in the Eurovision Song Contest to gain the favour of your fellow European countries (and Australia).
By awarding countries with many points, they will like you for it and return points back the next year. Can you form a big enough power block to win the Eurovision Song Contest? If you can do that, the world belongs to you!
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HOW TO PLAY:
By giving many points to a country, you will befriend them and they will return the favour in the next year. So by strategically awarding points to the countries you want in your group of friends, you can manipulate the results in the long run and eventually become winner of the Eurovision Song Contest and thus the world.
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This is my first entry for Ludum Dare. I'm not really a game developer, so I created a website instead. I hope it works, because the code isn't that great. If you're having trouble, maybe trying a different browser might help.
The game depends heavily on music (it's a song contest after all). I've created a lot of songs during this weekend for this game, so please turn up your speakers and enjoy the beautiful Euro sounds.
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All code, art & music has been made by me during the weekend of LD32.
The sound track is on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/martijnwf/sets/ld32-eurovision-world
I used http://www.bandnamemaker.com and http://www.songname.net to generate the random band/song names that are shown in the game. I tried my best to remove any profanities from the generated names. If you do come across a name which offends you, I'm sorry about that.
Ratings
| Coolness | 89% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.30 | 434 |
| Audio | 4.64 | 2 |
| Fun | 2.79 | 779 |
| Graphics | 2.63 | 801 |
| Humor | 4.13 | 21 |
| Innovation | 3.82 | 122 |
| Mood | 3.35 | 234 |
| Theme | 3.42 | 490 |
Good game to be the first time :)
The game play was a bit problematic. I played for several years, but didn't really see a huge rise in standings. I'm guessing that if you rate someone higher than they rated you last year they'll trend up, and if you rated lower they'll trend down, but without some statistics up when I got to voting it was very difficult to determine who I should vote high. It was also difficult given that I didn't know who else was competing, so I couldn't think ahead and hold the better points for the right players.
Despite this I did have a lot of fun playing, and laughing at the incredible amount of strange music you put together.
You can look up the statistics in the screen between the Eurovision contests. If you click on one of the countries in the list on the left, you'll see a graph of how many points you've given them and how many points they've given you in return.
The best strategy is to look for countries that keep re-appearing each contest. If you team up with them and consistently give them a lot of points, you'll be able to win :)
Keep up the good work! :D
There are 50 countries in total. Every time the game starts, a set of 25 is randomly chosen. So if your favourite country isn't included, just refresh the game and chances are it will be there :)
You can track the voting history of each country in the screen between the Eurovisions though, by click on a country from the list on the left and looking at the graphs.
Very frustrating to try to win as it's very stacked against you.
I noticed a bug when austria appeared twice so they got voted on twice so it would be good to fix that.
(Also if you really wanna go all out with the eurovision theme you should have included bloc voting ;P )
The efforts you made with the music was great. I actually found myself turning the music up so that everyone could here it.
Just wish Portugal was on the list
@Joris: well, you always end up in last place at the first contest. The idea is to build diplomatic relations with other countries by giving them many points. They will reward you the next year by giving you more points in return. If you can build a big enough block of befriended countries, you are able to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
@MegaPonies: Portugal is included! All 50 participants are in the game, but only 25 are chosen at random at the start of each game. So if your favourite country isn't in there, just hit refresh and chances are it will be included :)
Regarding the game itself, it's a bit hard to understand the logic behind votes and it's a bit too long as the years go by (maybe doing a "mini-eurovision with less countries each would make the game faster to play), and, as many others, I ended up losing several contest in a row (4 years) with my country (France) - 100% realistic ;).
You should expand the game (refine UI) in a post-compo version, because your concept very neat!
I couldn't really figure out how to vote to win, because I could not remember what I had voted and what results that created though. I am bad at memorizing stuff :-(
I think the art style is just right for this kind of game, does not distract from the music and is still nice to look at.
Very good first entry, way better than my first entry and it even feels more coherent and thought out than what I make today!
Keep it up!
I was confused for a short while on what to do (I have a bad habit of jumping in and trying to play before I read any instructions), but I eventually read your instructions. ;)
Audio and Humor 12 points!!!
It took me 7years to make my country win, but I'm not that optimistic in real life :p
The work on the audio is just huge. You've managed to put so much diversity.
With the animations, it makes every song pleasant to watch/listen to.
Nice job !
The only downside was that I didn't get to play as Sweden and receive all those delicious 12-pointers from the rest of Scandinavia because of our "similar taste in music." So this time I picked Switzerland. That's the country we always get confused with anyway. :P
It's amazing how you implemented the strategic / neighbor voting system - just as in the real Eurovision :D
It's all very impressive.
But to be fair, I didn't have the patience to go beyond two rounds. So maybe gameplay could be imporved a bit, but other than that: very impressive!
Great job!
Then I pitched them all up & down, resulting in 180 different song files for the game :)
The take on Eurovision is so realistic, from the mechanic to the music itself, it's just briliant. Instalike on Soundcloud. Tenouttaten, GOTY!