{"author_link":"\/users\/jaggent-aka-shouke","author_name":"Jaggent-aka-shouke","author_uid":1045959,"comments":[{"author_name":"reBTF","author_uid":"1035671","time":"2017-08-01T01:26:52Z","epoch":1501550812,"modified":1501550812,"text":"This was a fun interpretation of the prompt, I played through the whole thing and while it was a little bit click spammy I definitely enjoyed it.\n\nIt was quite a brutal start, I died in like 5 seconds before I worked out what was going on but once I did it wasn't too hard to solve.\n\nVery nice art style and I love all the little elements like Birb.","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Mr Marcgenesis","author_uid":1038684,"time":"2017-08-01T02:06:52Z","epoch":1501553212,"modified":1501553212,"text":"Cool game! Made me feel like I was playing one of those hardcore simulations from back in the DOS days. No manual, no tutorial, just you and your brain. Definitely a game worth exploring.\n\n\nP.S: Right-click the main menu made the game #priorities","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Awpteamoose","author_uid":"1002236","time":"2017-08-01T03:38:45Z","epoch":1501558725,"modified":1501558725,"text":"I like that it's easy to completely screw yourself over if you get too greedy.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"dreadloaf","author_uid":"1003342","time":"2017-08-01T03:40:43Z","epoch":1501558843,"modified":1501558843,"text":"I really liked how the game didn't hold my hand at all. It was brutal to start out but once you got a hold of what's what it gets really enjoyable. I also really liked the birb system; really reminded me of Cities Skylines. Great job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Apace","author_uid":"1032820","time":"2017-08-01T11:15:06Z","epoch":1501586106,"modified":1501586106,"text":"I can only agree with the others: the start was quite brutal. But, after I figured out what I need to do it was a lot of fun managing everything! The pixel art is really pretty as well.\nGreat job!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PanDorfa","author_uid":"1043260","time":"2017-08-01T12:51:14Z","epoch":1501591874,"modified":1501591875,"text":"I like the pixel art, it looks pretty good and works quite well with rest of the game","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PanDorfa","author_uid":"1043260","time":"2017-08-01T12:51:17Z","epoch":1501591877,"modified":1501591878,"text":"I like the pixel art, it looks pretty good and works quite well with rest of the game","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"pnkthrepwood","author_uid":1021095,"time":"2017-08-01T20:59:40Z","epoch":1501621180,"modified":1501621180,"text":"Cool game! I think the icons on the different buying things could be more flashy.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Whiteninja","author_uid":"1035379","time":"2017-08-02T15:01:54Z","epoch":1501686114,"modified":1501686114,"text":"Awesome game, I love this genre of games. You gotta manage everything and make money to buy things just so you can generate more money.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"EX3D0","author_uid":"1011301","time":"2017-08-02T15:04:59Z","epoch":1501686299,"modified":1501686299,"text":"Coming here to also echo that an absolutely brutal start but once you figure it out it's extremely addicting.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BinarySpark","author_uid":"1014446","time":"2017-08-02T15:53:58Z","epoch":1501689238,"modified":1501689238,"text":"Alright, this was pretty interesting. It's quite complex, it took me a while to figure out how to even start out the right way. I like the pixel art, and I think the game achieves what it sets out to do, which is not being politically correct. :smile: The birbs are a nice touch.\n\nOverall, good work.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"LiquidBrain","author_uid":"1008969","time":"2017-08-02T16:47:01Z","epoch":1501692421,"modified":1501692421,"text":"Me and my brother had a great time playing this game. Took us a few tries in the beginning to get the right balance between workers and power plants.\n\nI'd consider this a full game already, something you'd might find on, for example, Kongregate. Some more features and this will be more great than it already is.\n\nThanks for the experience you gave us!\n\n\/\/ Rasmus (one half of [LiquidBrain](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/users\/liquidbrain\/))","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Aterlamia","author_uid":"1012477","time":"2017-08-02T18:33:15Z","epoch":1501698795,"modified":1501698795,"text":"This is quite complex but very fun to play. The pixel art fits the type of game very well. To other linux users i had the trouble that the maximize button was not really resizing the game, just use your mouse to drag the screen larger that will work and it's worth it.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rionisse","author_uid":1013747,"time":"2017-08-03T09:07:24Z","epoch":1501751244,"modified":1501751244,"text":"Your idea is really nice. Enjoyed this one. But to be honest graphics could be more polished, because sometimes it was hard to recognize meaning of the buttons.","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld39\/45967-87299d7aa52a0e7c25a1a49b290fc114.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/rubr.itch.io\/not-politically-correct","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/rubr.itch.io\/not-politically-correct","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"37958","g_author":"1045959","g_event":"LD39","g_eventkey":"74","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"236570","g_title":"Not Politically Correct","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"109","g_commentcount":"14","g_site2_node_id":"45967","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"45967","n_urlkey":"236570","n_parent":"32802","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/not-politically-correct","n_slug":"not-politically-correct","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"45959","n_created":"1501542428","n_modified":"1501677186","n_version":"132964","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":45967,"parent":32802,"superparent":9,"author":45959,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2017-08-01T00:52:23Z","created":"2017-07-31T23:07:08Z","modified":"2017-08-02T12:33:06Z","version":132964,"slug":"not-politically-correct","name":"Not Politically Correct","body":"![Sprite.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76c4.png)\n\nNPC, or Not Politically Correct, is a country management sim-kinda-game by rubr-band where you try to maintain your political power by making the \"ministers\" and citizens happy! Build schools, run a national sports team, manage jobs and much more!\n\nJust grab the windows zip, unzip it anywhere you want and launch the .exe to play. Simple as that!\n\n# FEATURES: (Trust me, there's a lot of them)\n\n- **Manage power plants** to generate electricity which is an essential game mechanic.\n- **Manage jobs** - wouldn't be good to see your citizens unemployed, poor and angry!\n- **Education** - Educate your citizens. More Education = better jobs they can apply to.\n- **Sports!** - fund a national sports team to bring in that sweet, sweet ticket fresh green not-so-american dolla dolla bills!\n- **Coins!** - watch out for that bank balance! You can go bankrupt and lose political power and that's game over.\n- **Population** - Gain population to make more jobs! More *jobs* = more *money*! Dont let your population drop to 0 though, I can guarantee you that ruling an empty land isn't much fun. \n- **Birb** - the local mascot and *media* app\/site that allows you to see the opinion of your people based on recent actions! ~~*I swear it's just constructive criticism*~~\n- **Fantastic Pixel Art** by Jaggent. \n- ~~*Janky*~~ **I mean, AMAZING code** by rubr. *(See Source Code)* *P.S. A certain someone was too lazy to put in autosave*, **don't forget to save!**\n- **Army!** - Manage an army to protect your great nati- *oh right there is no army*. ~~We ran outta time :(~~\n- **Sounds and Music** - Enjoy the game even more with the great sound of *silence*. ~~We ran outta time and can't make music lol~~\n- Right-click in the main menu for a steamy shower of birbs (most of our time went into this feature. #priorities)\n\n# GAME SCREENSHOTS:\n\n![B0ebz9.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76ee.png)\n\n![ZUhtxv.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76ff.png)\n\n![wZgDLX.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76fb.png)\n\n\n## The Future of Not Politically Correct:\nMe, Jaggent, and rubr have decided to continue developing this game. I (Jaggent) will pick up GML again at some point and start adding some features myself. Most if not all art was made by me and everything was written by rubr. You can follow the future releases of NPC on rubrs itch.io (link below) and other places (will be added later). As for now, we will be taking a small hiatus!\n\n![spr_splashanimb1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/7710.gif)\n\n- **Installation instructions for linux:**\n\nIn terminal, type this: `sudo apt install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 libbz2-1.0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxxf86vm1 libssl1.0.0:i386 libglu1:i386 libxrandr-dev libxrandr2:i386 libopenal1:i386 libopenal1` (gamemaker needs a fair share of libs on linux)\n\nThen, get the .deb package (if your distro supports it, if not use the .zip), click install and it should be on your desktop. \n\nmacOS builds are a possibility!\n\n- **WINDOWS install guide:**\n\nJust grab the windows zip, unzip it anywhere you want and launch the .exe to play. Simple as that!","meta":{"grade-06-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/783\/b\/z\/73ce.png","link-01":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/73gwhconky9dwep\/NotPoliticallyCorrect.gmx%20%282%29.zip?dl=0","link-02":"https:\/\/rubr.itch.io\/not-politically-correct","link-02-tag":"42337","link-03":"https:\/\/rubr.itch.io\/not-politically-correct","link-03-tag":"42341","author":[45959,36198]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/39\/not-politically-correct","parents":[1,5,9,32802],"love":0,"notes":14,"notes-timestamp":"2017-08-03T09:07:24Z","grade":{"grade-01":26,"grade-02":26,"grade-03":26,"grade-04":26,"grade-05":26,"grade-07":25,"grade-08":23},"magic":{"cool":97.618706018395,"feedback":14,"given":20.25,"grade":25.428571428571,"grade-01-average":3.875,"grade-01-result":109,"grade-02-average":3.292,"grade-02-result":329,"grade-03-average":3.792,"grade-03-result":86,"grade-04-average":3.958,"grade-04-result":130,"grade-05-average":3.958,"grade-05-result":253,"grade-07-average":3.826,"grade-07-result":62,"grade-08-average":3.333,"grade-08-result":357,"smart":2.5165443881047}},"text":"![Sprite.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76c4.png)\n\nNPC, or Not Politically Correct, is a country management sim-kinda-game by rubr-band where you try to maintain your political power by making the \"ministers\" and citizens happy! Build schools, run a national sports team, manage jobs and much more!\n\nJust grab the windows zip, unzip it anywhere you want and launch the .exe to play. Simple as that!\n\n# FEATURES: (Trust me, there's a lot of them)\n\n- **Manage power plants** to generate electricity which is an essential game mechanic.\n- **Manage jobs** - wouldn't be good to see your citizens unemployed, poor and angry!\n- **Education** - Educate your citizens. More Education = better jobs they can apply to.\n- **Sports!** - fund a national sports team to bring in that sweet, sweet ticket fresh green not-so-american dolla dolla bills!\n- **Coins!** - watch out for that bank balance! You can go bankrupt and lose political power and that's game over.\n- **Population** - Gain population to make more jobs! More *jobs* = more *money*! Dont let your population drop to 0 though, I can guarantee you that ruling an empty land isn't much fun. \n- **Birb** - the local mascot and *media* app\/site that allows you to see the opinion of your people based on recent actions! ~~*I swear it's just constructive criticism*~~\n- **Fantastic Pixel Art** by Jaggent. \n- ~~*Janky*~~ **I mean, AMAZING code** by rubr. *(See Source Code)* *P.S. A certain someone was too lazy to put in autosave*, **don't forget to save!**\n- **Army!** - Manage an army to protect your great nati- *oh right there is no army*. ~~We ran outta time :(~~\n- **Sounds and Music** - Enjoy the game even more with the great sound of *silence*. ~~We ran outta time and can't make music lol~~\n- Right-click in the main menu for a steamy shower of birbs (most of our time went into this feature. #priorities)\n\n# GAME SCREENSHOTS:\n\n![B0ebz9.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76ee.png)\n\n![ZUhtxv.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76ff.png)\n\n![wZgDLX.png](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/76fb.png)\n\n\n## The Future of Not Politically Correct:\nMe, Jaggent, and rubr have decided to continue developing this game. I (Jaggent) will pick up GML again at some point and start adding some features myself. Most if not all art was made by me and everything was written by rubr. You can follow the future releases of NPC on rubrs itch.io (link below) and other places (will be added later). As for now, we will be taking a small hiatus!\n\n![spr_splashanimb1.gif](\/\/\/raw\/783\/b\/z\/7710.gif)\n\n- **Installation instructions for linux:**\n\nIn terminal, type this: `sudo apt install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 libbz2-1.0:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxxf86vm1 libssl1.0.0:i386 libglu1:i386 libxrandr-dev libxrandr2:i386 libopenal1:i386 libopenal1` (gamemaker needs a fair share of libs on linux)\n\nThen, get the .deb package (if your distro supports it, if not use the .zip), click install and it should be on your desktop. \n\nmacOS builds are a possibility!\n\n- **WINDOWS install guide:**\n\nJust grab the windows zip, unzip it anywhere you want and launch the .exe to play. Simple as that!","title":"Not Politically Correct"}