Dear Chancellor by Ludonaut

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made by Ludonaut for LD32 (JAM)
Controls:

Hold LMB to aim, RMB activates the Unconventional Weapon.

Gamepads should also work! (depending on your browser). Aim with the analog sticks, try what the buttons do.

The +/- keys on your keyboard increase/decrease speed and the number of enemies spawned, feel free to cheat.

Best played in Chrome-based and WebGL-enabled browsers. Seriously, don't even attempt to play this in Safari, it will look like ass and the audio probably won't work properly. Don't be a Safari.

Description:

"Dear Chancellor is like, a totally highbrow critique of late capitalism. You wouldn't understand."

Made with Construct 2 in a couple of hours. This was somewhat of a last-minute project as I had other obligations and I lost like half a day of work to a system freeze. Because I didn't do an initial save of the project then, C2's autosave function didn't do its job. So yeah, fun times. I feel like I could have done a lot more with this idea, but there you go. Might do a post-jam version, I dunno. We'll see.

Credits:

Music CC-BY-SA by Jake Cataford
https://soundcloud.com/jakecataford/sets/game-jam-tracks

Laser Sound and Mega Horn from freesound.org
http://freesound.org/people/ksthultz15/sounds/232599/
http://freesound.org/people/Sarithule/sounds/245883/

Explosion Sprites from Adam Atomic's Abandonauts Set
http://adamatomic.com/abandonauts/

Amazing Coin Sprites by Clint Bellanger under CC-BY-SA
http://opengameart.org/content/animated-coins

Picture of Merkel wearing 3D glasses CC-BY-SA by Armin K眉belbeck
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angela_Merkel_10.jpg

Picture of Merkel's Hands CC-BY-SA by Armin Linnartz
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Angela_Merkel,_Juli_2010.jpg

Menu screen gif from some movie via google image search, sue me.

Ratings

Coolness 69% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.18 546
Fun(Jam) 3.58 176
Humor(Jam) 4.35 7
Mood(Jam) 3.56 172
Theme(Jam) 3.28 577

Feedback

bonus1up
20. Apr 2015 路 21:49 UTC
Love it!!!
But the rating widget doesn't appear?
馃帳 Ludonaut
20. Apr 2015 路 22:28 UTC
It does now. Thanks.
diiq
20. Apr 2015 路 22:53 UTC
Mhahahahahaha this was my first real, deep belly laugh of day. Thank you!
Flayk
20. Apr 2015 路 23:22 UTC
I don't get the reference but this is hilarious and so fun!
Tuism
21. Apr 2015 路 09:18 UTC
Damnit now I really wish you hadn't lost half a day of work on this. Superbly done, channeling Sos in a big way :)

Is this about Quantitative Easing policies in Europe or something?

It's more a toy, but the juice is OFF THE CHARTS. Really good :)

REALLY want to rate the music :)
GarethIW
21. Apr 2015 路 09:20 UTC
I have *no* idea what just happened, but I think I liked it :O
馃帳 Ludonaut
21. Apr 2015 路 09:33 UTC
Be sure to right-click, everyone!

For those that don't get the reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkel-Raute
sputnik
21. Apr 2015 路 20:44 UTC
Hahahah! Love it!
esayitch
22. Apr 2015 路 17:45 UTC
This may be the best thing I have seen. IRL.
volkoivan
22. Apr 2015 路 17:45 UTC
I liked it, the feeling was good, but I don't understand what happened
5/5, because why not
zwartraider
22. Apr 2015 路 17:46 UTC
Oh wow, that's some deep political commentary, and indeed, I don't get it :) I shoot money, but then more money appears and I am increasing an existing debt. Awesome, the special move is also quite cool. Nice animations and overall feel to the whole thing.
Smirnov48
22. Apr 2015 路 17:48 UTC
Very fun little game! :)
BIZM
22. Apr 2015 路 19:20 UTC
We played this for way too long! Go Angela go!
ker0chan
23. Apr 2015 路 10:46 UTC
This is obviously more of a toy than anything else, but the visuals and effects are top notch ! Good job, keep working on this :D
dyfer
23. Apr 2015 路 17:14 UTC
i had a big laugh at the first picture and the game gave me a new one xD very cool ^^
zatyka
24. Apr 2015 路 01:49 UTC
Silly, short, not much gameplay, but damn that was enjoyable.
slowfrog
26. Apr 2015 路 20:12 UTC
I find your critique of the capitalistic system a bit abstract. A few pictures of Greek politicians with a background music generated by high-frequency trading automata would have made it more powerful, I think ;)
uvwar
26. Apr 2015 路 20:14 UTC
Very fun/interesting game for something only made in a few hours! I'm assuming you can't actually die/lose right? Keep adding to this and hope your saves don't eat themselves in the meantime.
steboots
26. Apr 2015 路 20:16 UTC
Hahahahahahahaha, that just happened. Sorry you lost your work, this was magnificent given your time frame!
Martin Vilcans
26. Apr 2015 路 20:31 UTC
I love the punk style graphics design. I don't really get the political reference, but I love that there is one!
randoman
26. Apr 2015 路 21:01 UTC
Hahaha, I love the style of this game.