Trump Crisis Simulator 2020 by Lyje

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made by Lyje for Ludum Dare 46 (JAM)

POST-JAM "LYSOL EDITION" AVAILABLE BELOW with music and a few... topical additions!

There's a lethal pandemic, threatening the most important thing in the USA:

Your POLLS and TV RATINGS!

If either hit zero, you're fired! Can you keep them alive for 30 days?

And, like, the american people or whatever

"The best game ever" - Some people
"So much better than Obama's handling of Ebola" - Many people

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Third party assets:
Trump - Denys Almaral https://denysalmaral.com/2018/11/free-donald-trump-high-quality-3d-caricature.html
Oval Office - PetriParkkinen https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/net-oval-office-tarkka-5a48369d2196421eae664d9bc8fc38fb
Statue - Geoffrey Marchal https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/scanned/various/herakles
Bust base - chauvanla https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/printable-alexander-bust-obj/738486
Coke can - MegaKosan https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/1040799
Lectern - hlostoops https://www.cgtrader.com/free-3d-models/exterior/other/presidential-inauguration-podium
Trees - Darth_Artisan https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/vegetation/trees/free-trees-103208

Youtube	https://sixways.itch.io/trump-crisis-simulator-2020
Youtube	https://sixways.itch.io/trump-crisis-simulator-2020-lysol-edition
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/trump-crisis-simulator-2020

Ratings

Overall	830^th	3.652⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Fun	536^th	3.674⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	558^th	3.63⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Theme	1148^th	3.696⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Humor	7^th	4.565⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Mood	697^th	3.674⭐	25🧑‍⚖️
Given		14🗳️	18🗨️

Feedback

WeAreDev

21. Apr 2020 · 10:26 UTC

This was hilarious ^^
The golf mini game made my day, really good idea

Two points of criticism though:
- sometimes there are situations where you can only make bad choices. but I guess that is due to realistically implementing Trumps ... err ... pure genius.
- why no music? You missed a great chance there ^^

Thanks for making this, it was awesome to play ^^

~ MinorSeven from WeAreDev

Ugghmaster

21. Apr 2020 · 10:47 UTC

Great game. Definitely worth playing.
I appreciate the webGL build but i think music would have made the game even more hilarious.
(Maybe you had music and it broke in webGL, cant test the windows version.) The only other thing I noticed, is that you quickly run out of new text options but i guess that is due to the jam time constraints.

Anyway, good luck on the voting, Ugghmaster form WeAreDev

🎤 Lyje

22. Apr 2020 · 16:27 UTC

Thanks guys! Music would definitely help - didn't have time unfortunately! As for bad choices - if anything I was worried that I gave too many good choices, not realistically trumpish enough :wink:

gurkenlabs

24. Apr 2020 · 11:15 UTC

I think you could tweak the balancing a bit: I ended up only having to take care about polls, and even the actions in the oval office did not really help to make the polls better (sometimes they got even worse no matter which action I chose.)
Also I noticed that when you click one action and then the other in rapid succession, the event counter goes up by 2. Maybe lock the buttons a bit earlier.
The golf minigame was absolutely genius!
This was a fun entry which would have been even better with some sounds and music.

DrSkort

25. Apr 2020 · 20:01 UTC

I really like the idea of this game and theme of this game. Honestly I felt a little bit confused since I couldn't keep the poll numbers up. The models looked amazing and I am really impressed how much you did in that short time. For 30 days I could have maybe wanted more cards to choose from. Also the UI could have been a bit more polished. Honestly this was one of the most polished game I saw apart from the UI. I have no idea how you made so many animations and models. Really good job on this one.

BauBau

25. Apr 2020 · 20:05 UTC

I think this is a very accurate simulator on how it actually happens! :smile: Nice entry!

Doot

25. Apr 2020 · 20:12 UTC

Great job!

I had my share of laugh when playing. As stated, some music and a bit more variety in text and you have something really beautiful, the greatest game, purely american and huge.

Thank you for the game!

Martinitron

26. Apr 2020 · 20:21 UTC

Hilarious game :joy: very topical! wasn't sure if I had control during the golfing mini-game though. Good luck with the Jam

Tybau

26. Apr 2020 · 20:28 UTC

Thanks for this game !

It's really fun and laugthing (it shoudn't but it is ;) )

🎤 Lyje

27. Apr 2020 · 15:18 UTC

@drskort @gurkenlabs Thanks! The balancing is definitely off, although in all honesty I was more interested in the humour than the balance!

@drskort To clarify - most of the art assets are 3rd party (credits/links under the screenshots), and animations are from Mixamo, so I'm perhaps not quite the prodigy you might think :wink:

@baubau @doot @tybau I'm really glad you liked it, thank you :smile:

@martinitron The golf minigame is completely automatic other than you clicking - I didn't want you to be able to make him play well :tongue:

Tpcool

30. Apr 2020 · 00:04 UTC

Funny game! I think the novelty is what carried it for me. I tried a few times to strike the right balance with my answers, but I always seemed to come short. Do you need to answer them in a specific order, or find a balance between each day's activity? On the downside, I think the commentary/humor was a bit too on-the-nose for me to get too much mileage out of it, and so I quickly got bored once I wasn't able to make it far. But overall, nice work; it's good for a laugh. :wink:

🎤 Lyje

30. Apr 2020 · 13:19 UTC

@tpcool thanks! It's definitely something of a one-note joke, but hopefully funny while it lasts :smile: Balance is a bit off, but in general the key is to not do what Trump would do when you have the option :wink:

lcossette

06. May 2020 · 22:55 UTC

Ha. This is the best game so far. The music is fitting, especially the carnival type music for his golf, along with the sycophantic comments. The problem is it's too tempting to lose the game by replicating reality. And unfortunately, in reality his poll ratings never drop below 40% no matter how insane and moronic he acts.

OpenSpace JetPack Astronauts

10. May 2020 · 11:38 UTC

I am not sure if i expected the decision making to be inverted to reflect some of the real life equivalent happenings.
Also the options seemed to repeat pretty often, but i suppose that is due to the time limitation.
Otherwise great job!