Horrible Politics by Rocketship

Pick the best or the worst randomized words for every question. Trust me, this is how politics works in real life too.
Red bar = International popularity Green bar = Domestic popularity
They don't matter though. Just keep talking and nobody notices you don't know what the hell you're doing!
- Programming and writing by rocketshipclub
- Graphics by Sakaari
Parental warning: This game contains some naughty words and bad politics, don't let your kids play it, don't even let them near it.
BUGFIX: Canvas to show the character selection was not turned on in the first version, fixed now
| HTML5 (web) | https://rocketshipclub.itch.io/horrible-politics |
| Windows | https://rocketshipclub.itch.io/horrible-politics |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/horrible-politics |
Ratings
| Overall | 321th | 3.515⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 151th | 3.636⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 293th | 3.273⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 772th | 2.719⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 479th | 3.364⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 12th | 4.333⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
I did enjoy the game. The newspaper responses at the end of each conference were a nice touch, and it was fun to see what kind of hilarious yet scarily realistic statements I could make. Definitely top marks for humour!
Realizing how realistic some of the statements I could make really were also creeped me out a fair bit, so full marks for mood. I got a good laugh out of my newspaper headlines, though!
Nice entry!
10/10 would give money to shit al who-doe leader again
Also it makes me unendingly happy that my avatar looks perpetually constipated
The art is great. Yes people tend to like pixel art for the sake of being pixel art but I love the style you put into their faces, that's some Ren & Stimpy type stuff.
I felt a bit disconnected from the gameplay. I think having less-defined goals made me care less about my decisions and it left me hanging.
But hey, like you said, it's accurate to how real life works. Most accurate politics simulator yet.
I like the graphics! Well done.
Jokes aside, I think that using madlibs as a way to satirize politics is pretty smart. I particularly like how you don't always have all the words you need to say the right thing, so you're essentially having to perform damage control (do I call education "boring" or children "the worst?"). Also, the newspaper headlines reacting to your quotes are a nice touch. The portraits are very well made, and I like how you have options to make the game accessible to people of all political persuasion, even though the game's scenarios mostly seem to be focused more on current politics, if you catch my drift. Overall, this is a really clever and funny game that I had a good laugh playing. That being said, no option to play as Sean Spicer = 0/10
A great humor for a good game, well done !
Wasn't exactly sure what the bars did, or which were good or bad, but I just messed around and hoped that something happened and it was a nice experience. Well done!
I did notice some small discrepancies, for example getting tough with the eastern region lowered my international popularity but the newspaper said they loved it.
A few things** you could have enhanced / done to perfect the game:
- When having selected ones choices, I would have wished for a "continue" button as I had already read the full statement.
- After each week / conference / whatever, at least the first time it wasn't quite clear to me due to the delay if the game was over, there was a bug and it didn't take my answers or something like that. Because of that, I clicked the other two options (which is still possible after making ones choices), and as it then continued, I thought it had something to do with that. Again: An argument for the "continue"-button, or at least for not being able to select anything after all gaps are filled.
- Sometimes, when selecting two long words, the text overflows it's container (speech bubble), that could be fixed.
All in all, my suggestions are purely cosmetics, so they didn't impact my experience with the game at all, which is why …
**… all in all, it's a hilariously funny and entertaining game :thumbsup:**
"People generally agree that eating puppies sounds worse than eating cereal"
This game is hilarious. Well done!