FergusonTV by FergusonTV
WHAT IS IT ABOUT
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FergusonTV is born of our thought about medias interpretation on Ferguson riots, which occurred in November and December 2014.
You embody a cameraman embarked in a helicopter who covers the topic for different News TV and web channels. What will you choose to shoot for the viewers? How will they react?
HOW TO PLAY
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Use the arrow keys to move the camera around.
Zoom in with Alpha 1 key.
Zoom out with Alpha 2 key.
Focus and start filming actions by zooming on it.
Maximum zoom is necessary to tag the actions
Watch the impact on the audience gauge.
Read the reaction of the news speaker and from the audience on the news ticker.
After 60 seconds, the channel will change.
Every channel has it's own audience and, therefore, expectations... choose wisely to maximize your audience or, on the contrary, lower it.
CREDITS
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• The Team •
Pierre Revelin (Producer - Writer)
Anthony Krafft (Game Designer - Writer)
Harold Osswald (Game Designer - Writer)
Romain Ferrand (Artist)
Baptiste Poligné (Artist)
Marc-Antoine Archier (Sound Designer)
Axel Deshors (Programmer)
Lucas Le Gouic (Programmer)
• Special thanks to •
Daniel Quach (Graphic programmer)
Giving us your feedback would be very kind and appreciated.
Peace.
@FergusonTV_LD31
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FergusonTV is born of our thought about medias interpretation on Ferguson riots, which occurred in November and December 2014.
You embody a cameraman embarked in a helicopter who covers the topic for different News TV and web channels. What will you choose to shoot for the viewers? How will they react?
HOW TO PLAY
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Use the arrow keys to move the camera around.
Zoom in with Alpha 1 key.
Zoom out with Alpha 2 key.
Focus and start filming actions by zooming on it.
Maximum zoom is necessary to tag the actions
Watch the impact on the audience gauge.
Read the reaction of the news speaker and from the audience on the news ticker.
After 60 seconds, the channel will change.
Every channel has it's own audience and, therefore, expectations... choose wisely to maximize your audience or, on the contrary, lower it.
CREDITS
--------------------------------------------------------'
• The Team •
Pierre Revelin (Producer - Writer)
Anthony Krafft (Game Designer - Writer)
Harold Osswald (Game Designer - Writer)
Romain Ferrand (Artist)
Baptiste Poligné (Artist)
Marc-Antoine Archier (Sound Designer)
Axel Deshors (Programmer)
Lucas Le Gouic (Programmer)
• Special thanks to •
Daniel Quach (Graphic programmer)
Giving us your feedback would be very kind and appreciated.
Peace.
@FergusonTV_LD31
Ratings
| Coolness | 94% | 2 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.11 | 589 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.96 | 408 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.44 | 896 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.67 | 309 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.98 | 304 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.91 | 69 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.37 | 274 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.89 | 201 |
Great main menu!
The first Ludum Dare #31 entry I played with a political theme.
Good job!
@Drtizzle : Thanks alot :D
@mortus : thank you for your feedback. We updated our entry text to give a bit more details about the controls and objectives.
One of my favourites till now!
Good Job!! :D
Hope to see more of this!
But this wryly humour can be misinterpreted, need work to make it a bit more subtle.
Love the pixel art graphims and the animations, all the graphics should be like that.
So i'm mixed with my feelings about this entry but give you a plus for courage on taking such a difficult theme.
I also think you should have censored the racial slurs in the tweets at the bottom but that's a matter of opinion and as a white person I'm not an authority on who can say what.
I'm just sharing some concerns here because I like the game, I think it's well-constructed, bug-free and an innovative concept. You are entitled to your art and your opinion and I'd be happy to chat on twitter about anything we disagree on or need to be more clear about.
'FergusonTV is born of our thought about medias interpretation on Ferguson riots, which occurred in November and December 2014.'
no ...following the events of Mike Brown's murder
or ...after a grand jury ruled a cop who committed murder should go free.
You provide little context to the serious issue you're tackling and I think that's a real issue that you could easily fix with some more exposition in the game page.
About ferguson : our goal wasn't to talk about Ferguson and the event that occured there but only to talk about the interpretation of the events by the media in general. Ferguson is only a context, not the main topic.
@RogueRogue : it is Arabic, الجزيرة.نت means Al Jazeera ;) (cf. http://aljazeera.net/portal)
We would like to adress the concerns some reviewers manifested about the game. First of all, we think that social movement are complex problems that can't be summarized with a short text. Real Life social issues can be adressed from many points of view and perspetives. A riot is open to interpretations. The only fact is the riot.
What we wanted to express in FergusonTV was the level of "fucked-up-ness" we found in contemporary america and we tried to avoid asserting simplified analysis about the social movement that occured in Ferguson. Rather than that, we chose to make fun of all the bullshit TV analysts and speakers and tweeters like to unload on us every day on those social issues that are the real political life of real people.
Thank you very much for all the feedbacks! It's really nice to see interest in our game.
TL;DR : Ferguson is the context of our game, mediatic coverage of events is the real theme.
On Safari&Mac i see some weird artefacts behind the people sprites.
But the overall design with the news-channels is well done, with the text at the bottom scrolling by and so on.
It just would have been great to get more feedback, as to how a specific action influenced the audience, maybe make a big up-arrow or down-arrow appear, instead of the audience gauge silently and unsuspiciously moving up and down.
It gets you thinking. Beyond that I'm not sure.
Have you heard of that game coming up called "Riot"?
#BlackLivesMatter.
Great work so far!