Council of Smiles by MatthewHolland
It's a sort of visual novel government sim, set in a nation of smiley faces.
The game plays in a few minutes; playthroughs are slightly randomised so please have a second go if you could tolerate the first.
(It's quicker if you want to click through the 'animations' or use Ren'Py's fast forward feature, which I'm assured will only skip text you've already seen.)
If you're interested in the source you'll find the game logic in script.rpy and events.rpy, in a curious mixture of Ren'Py and Python proper.
Full disclosure: I'm employed as a designer (and previously a sort of programmer). If you want to take that into account you can.
The game plays in a few minutes; playthroughs are slightly randomised so please have a second go if you could tolerate the first.
(It's quicker if you want to click through the 'animations' or use Ren'Py's fast forward feature, which I'm assured will only skip text you've already seen.)
If you're interested in the source you'll find the game logic in script.rpy and events.rpy, in a curious mixture of Ren'Py and Python proper.
Full disclosure: I'm employed as a designer (and previously a sort of programmer). If you want to take that into account you can.
Ratings
| Coolness | 45% | 1550 |
| Overall | 3.30 | 436 |
| Audio | 1.88 | 888 |
| Fun | 3.11 | 521 |
| Graphics | 2.18 | 1086 |
| Humor | 2.91 | 300 |
| Innovation | 3.56 | 263 |
| Mood | 2.96 | 523 |
| Theme | 3.41 | 794 |
Also scarily familiar since I'm from Sweden and the governments budget didn't pass here recently :)
// caryoscelus