Let's Get Political! by Charles Sun

made by Charles Sun for LD 39 (JAM)

The Game

You are a struggling politician just trying to survive in the streets of Fancytown (that's just a name I made up 2 seconds ago). Your political power is constantly dwindling (jk, the rate is not constant). Nevertheless, you decide to go back out into the streets and gather more people to your cause before your political power runs out. HAVE FUN :)))))
(Quick disclaimer: This game is definitely not a satire on the current political situation in the world)

Controls

Left click to Walk
Hold right click + drag to Rotate Camera
Scrollwheel or Z&X to Zoom
Press 1 for Ability 1
Press 2 then Left click for ability 2

Gameplay

Walk around to gather followers to increase your Political Power (PP)
Try to survive as long as you can before your PP runs out (on a timer)

Tools

Unity 2017
Visual Studio Community 2015
MagicaVoxel
Bfxr
Paint.NET

Music

Music was created by Ozzed, released under the Creative Commons Licence. (ozzed.net)

Windows	https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxkxMqFm72INRk9EWXZ0N2M2dTA
macOS	https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxkxMqFm72INSndpUkQxb2NnM3M
Linux	https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxkxMqFm72INaDE1T2pydWh5cmc
Source code	https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxkxMqFm72INdzdlODZDeV91VnM
Source code	https://github.com/externalhardrive/LD39_LetsGetPolitical
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/lets-get-political

Ratings

Given

6🗳️

9🗨️

Feedback

zgragselus

01. Aug 2017 · 00:52 UTC

Interesting concept, and quite nice art with lively jumping animations. I like art style of the game. As for idea - it works with the theme.

Yet I do miss some endgame or goal of the game, or some spending of political power to do abilities (you can just always go around and gather more people - only being limited by the number of your followers and your speed).

Anyways I like the concept of the game. Keep up the good work.

MrSerp

01. Aug 2017 · 01:45 UTC

I see we had a similar interpretation of the theme! Good entry, but like zgragselus said, an endgame goal would be nice, but we did only have 72 hours, so that's an understandable thing to leave out.

Overall the game looks and plays nicely.

The-iron

01. Aug 2017 · 01:50 UTC

Cool game! I like that it's about political power--I don't think a lot of people have done that. It's fun, but I found that often there just weren't any people around to recruit, and it feels like there isn't really an endgame--the rate just skyrockets and you die. Still, I loved the graphics and the soundtrack, and it was fun.