{"author_link":"\/author\/fergusontv_ld31\/","author_name":"FergusonTV","author_uid":"47075","comments":[{"author_name":"p1x3lruckus","author_uid":"45534","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 4:26am","epoch":1418098860,"text":"This looks really interesting, wish I could play it, but I'm on mac."},{"author_name":"Drtizzle","author_uid":"32775","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 11:14am","epoch":1418123340,"text":"Very nice graphics, very funny!\rGreat main menu!\rThe first Ludum Dare #31 entry I played with a political theme.\r\rGood job!"},{"author_name":"mortus","author_uid":"20884","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:10pm","epoch":1418130300,"text":"I like the idea and overall looks of it, but I have no idea how to play. Some hints would be useful. Looks like I've managed to focus on few actions but I don't think that changed anything, and then the channel just switched. Am I missing something here?"},{"author_name":"FergusonTV","author_uid":"47075","time":"Dec 9, 2014 @ 1:38pm","epoch":1418131980,"text":"@p1x3lruckus : Thank you for your feedback, we uploaded a web player version. Hope you'll give it a try :)\r\r@Drtizzle : Thanks alot :D\r\r@mortus : thank you for your feedback. We updated our entry text to give a bit more details about the controls and objectives."},{"author_name":"GrabenGroup","author_uid":"46957","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:38am","epoch":1418203980,"text":"THIS IS AWESOME!! \rOne of my favourites till now!\r\rGood Job!! :D"},{"author_name":"masterhyjinx","author_uid":"2031","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:47am","epoch":1418204520,"text":"I had a hard time playing it as the feedback to my actions was a little confusing. Excellent looking game and a very cool approach and presentation. Audio design and execution was done very well. Good job!"},{"author_name":"Hell Byte","author_uid":"30339","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:50am","epoch":1418204700,"text":"Good Game, but a bit hard humor. I like it!"},{"author_name":"kiririn51","author_uid":"35049","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:02am","epoch":1418205420,"text":"Damn, things got really creepy but I dig the whole concept, I really do.\r\rHope to see more of this!"},{"author_name":"Pulsartronic","author_uid":"45161","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:10am","epoch":1418205900,"text":"Good interpretation of the theme this time. I think once you're focused on mainly important points, the game becomes a bit boring. Maybe with a lot of channels... but I understand the time they give us to do all this things... Nice entry, I love it :D"},{"author_name":"hundredhundred","author_uid":"42294","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:13am","epoch":1418206080,"text":"very interesting concept you have here!"},{"author_name":"dieblume86","author_uid":"44675","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 10:53am","epoch":1418208480,"text":"Interesting game."},{"author_name":"SushiDestroy","author_uid":"45477","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:05am","epoch":1418209200,"text":"Like the concept.\rBut this wryly humour can be misinterpreted, need work to make it a bit more subtle.\rLove the pixel art graphims and the animations, all the graphics should be like that."},{"author_name":"christopf","author_uid":"29139","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:11am","epoch":1418209560,"text":"Interesting take on the theme, definitly. Also goodjob to go with relative actual political content, this can't be more published. But i feel a little sad on the view on the Ferguson problem - it doesn't account the original problem and only goes for the riots after it. \rSo i'm mixed with my feelings about this entry but give you a plus for courage on taking such a difficult theme."},{"author_name":"Mike Mezhenin","author_uid":"34229","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:14am","epoch":1418209740,"text":"Great idea, my favourite from the jam so far. Thanks!"},{"author_name":"TiagoJDFerreira","author_uid":"45461","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:19am","epoch":1418210040,"text":"There was a lot of potential for this game, but I feel it fell short. The game has a very specific target audience and is very theme specific. I think a similar game with fictional tv channels and a fictional event (that could very well be inspired on this one) would have worked better."},{"author_name":"jrap","author_uid":"35879","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:42am","epoch":1418211420,"text":"I commend you for making a game that makes a point and has its eyes on real issues, and I've been following this since your first blog post because I was curious how you would execute this. I have some reservations. As stated above, this game focuses on the riots and not the months-long turmoil the people of Ferguson had been through. I understand this is a jam product with limited scope but I believe an over-simplification of real-life events is shown here, and you might have been safer with an ambiguous or completely fictional event.\r\rI 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.\r\rI'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."},{"author_name":"ThatsMyJam","author_uid":"26889","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:42am","epoch":1418211420,"text":"Hah nice concept, I'd have prefered mouse controls but was still fun"},{"author_name":"jrap","author_uid":"35879","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 11:52am","epoch":1418212020,"text":"I also think you helped simplify the issue by describing the real life events like this:\r'FergusonTV is born of our thought about medias interpretation on Ferguson riots, which occurred in November and December 2014.'\r\rno ...following the events of Mike Brown's murder\ror ...after a grand jury ruled a cop who committed murder should go free.\rYou 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."},{"author_name":"RougeRogue","author_uid":"43866","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 12:22pm","epoch":1418213820,"text":"The game was pretty funny! Just wanted to point out, the Arabic text on the news is not real Arabic :p ."},{"author_name":"FergusonTV","author_uid":"47075","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:07pm","epoch":1418216520,"text":"Thank you all for your feedbacks.\rAbout 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.\r\r@RogueRogue : it is Arabic, \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0632\u064a\u0631\u0629.\u0646\u062a means Al Jazeera ;) (cf. http:\/\/aljazeera.net\/portal)"},{"author_name":"FergusonTV","author_uid":"47075","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1418217000,"text":"Hi,\rWe 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. \rWhat 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.\r\rThank you very much for all the feedbacks! It's really nice to see interest in our game.\r\rTL;DR : Ferguson is the context of our game, mediatic coverage of events is the real theme."},{"author_name":"lukepilgrim","author_uid":"35160","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 1:15pm","epoch":1418217000,"text":"great idea"},{"author_name":"spitfire87","author_uid":"25586","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 3:12pm","epoch":1418224020,"text":"Very interesting idea & background.\r\rOn Safari&Mac i see some weird artefacts behind the people sprites."},{"author_name":"klianc09","author_uid":"20290","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 5:17pm","epoch":1418231520,"text":"Ok, since I'm no American (or don't read much news), I don't know much about what this is all about, or what some news channels are supposed to represent (or what their typical stereotype is). \rBut the overall design with the news-channels is well done, with the text at the bottom scrolling by and so on.\r\rIt 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."},{"author_name":"Sartemis Smart","author_uid":"47114","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 6:24pm","epoch":1418235540,"text":"Interesting approach, the actions are a little messy for the player sometimes but I really like that molleindustria-like satirical fashion (even if the global tone and message is kidda ambiguous sometimes). I think this kind of newsgame could be a really interesting project to improve.."},{"author_name":"Tuism","author_uid":"35114","time":"Dec 10, 2014 @ 9:49pm","epoch":1418247840,"text":"Really interesting, I liked the concept, but the execution leaves me wondering what I'm doing and whether my actions have consequence. If that was the point... Yeah it came across, but then it's not a "game"...\r\rIt gets you thinking. Beyond that I'm not sure.\r\rHave you heard of that game coming up called "Riot"?"},{"author_name":"csanyk","author_uid":"10473","time":"Dec 12, 2014 @ 3:31am","epoch":1418354760,"text":"Wow, amazing. Pretty much blows my #Ferguson riots game away. Superb entry.\r\r#BlackLivesMatter."},{"author_name":"asobitech","author_uid":"11959","time":"Dec 16, 2014 @ 6:23pm","epoch":1418753880,"text":"topical gaming."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"Dec 20, 2014 @ 1:41am","epoch":1419039360,"text":"interesting game but a bit clumsy to play - seemed more random to find things than any real strategy - nice job"},{"author_name":"runvs","author_uid":"29172","time":"Dec 21, 2014 @ 1:04pm","epoch":1419166740,"text":"Very nice entry. Reminds me of riot simulator.\rGreat work so far!"}],"images":["ld31\/47075-87003383e2136756a5249537dd496d78.jpg","ld31\/47075-8cfd0798ec4b272dcc5e984e3da39752.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/19799694\/Ferguson%20TV\/Index.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/19799694\/Ferguson%20TV\/Windows%20Build\/FergusonTV_Windows.rar","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"14492","g_author":"47075","g_event":"LD31","g_eventkey":"26","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"14522","g_title":"FergusonTV","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"589","g_commentcount":"30","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/47075-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/407933\/47075-shot1.gif-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"WHAT IS IT ABOUT\r\n---------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nFergusonTV is born of our thought about medias interpretation on Ferguson riots, which occurred in November and December 2014. \r\nYou 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?\r\n\r\n\r\nHOW TO PLAY\r\n---------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nUse the arrow keys to move the camera around.\r\nZoom in with Alpha 1 key.\r\nZoom out with Alpha 2 key.\r\nFocus and start filming actions by zooming on it.\r\nMaximum zoom is necessary to tag the actions\r\n\r\n\r\nWatch the impact on the audience gauge.\r\nRead the reaction of the news speaker and from the audience on the news ticker.\r\nAfter 60 seconds, the channel will change.\r\nEvery channel has it's own audience and, therefore, expectations... choose wisely to maximize your audience or, on the contrary, lower it.\r\n\r\n\r\nCREDITS\r\n--------------------------------------------------------'\r\n\r\n\u2022 The Team \u2022\r\nPierre Revelin (Producer - Writer)\r\nAnthony Krafft (Game Designer - Writer)\r\nHarold Osswald (Game Designer - Writer)\r\nRomain Ferrand (Artist)\r\nBaptiste Polign\u00e9 (Artist)\r\nMarc-Antoine Archier (Sound Designer)\r\nAxel Deshors (Programmer)\r\nLucas Le Gouic (Programmer)\r\n\r\n\u2022 Special thanks to \u2022\r\nDaniel Quach (Graphic programmer)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nGiving us your feedback would be very kind and appreciated.\r\nPeace.\r\n\r\n@FergusonTV_LD31","title":"FergusonTV"}