Ministry of Growth and Information by ashdnazg
WARNING - Audio is a central part of this game - WARNING
Play something else if you are unable to listen carefully
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WARNING 2 - The news channel has a timing issue.
Try to censor 3-5 seconds after the violation is heard.
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You play a government official in the Free Republic of Unoppressed People (FRUP) - a totalitarian state.
Your job is to censor subversive radio stations by pushing a big red button.
If you misuse your power, the public may start asking questions.
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The total length of audio in this game is ~27 minutes, where the average station is ~3 minutes long.
I can't promise all of it is funny, but we tried :)
Thanks for playing our game!
Ben & Eshed
Play something else if you are unable to listen carefully
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WARNING 2 - The news channel has a timing issue.
Try to censor 3-5 seconds after the violation is heard.
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You play a government official in the Free Republic of Unoppressed People (FRUP) - a totalitarian state.
Your job is to censor subversive radio stations by pushing a big red button.
If you misuse your power, the public may start asking questions.
===
The total length of audio in this game is ~27 minutes, where the average station is ~3 minutes long.
I can't promise all of it is funny, but we tried :)
Thanks for playing our game!
Ben & Eshed
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.58 | 275 |
| Audio(Jam) | 4.31 | 19 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.42 | 310 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.59 | 887 |
| Humor(Jam) | 4.21 | 19 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 4.00 | 43 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.53 | 267 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.23 | 840 |
Is it possible that you never switched from the propaganda station?
The only suggestion is: speed up the voice acting, it takes a while to go through the news!
Cheers,
Ionut(Tyrants.not.found team)
I accidentally reported "The Truth" a lot because all of the dialog sounds like conspiracy theories and something that counts as "falsehoods".
In seriousness though, it's amazing how much time needs to be spent on the writing so it's of passable quality.
@everyone else: thanks! glad you enjoyed it!
One of your main problems is the fact that there was a lot of sitting and waiting. I felt like maybe you should've gave the player more to do rathe than sit and listen to radio casts. Maybe I was just bad and should've multitasked more, but then again there really wasn't a timelimit or a lose condition that made the user more hasty.
Bu I did enjoy playing it.
Anyway, the game idea is pretty great. I don't think I've ever played something like this. That said, it would probably be better if it wasn't exclusively audio as I was often losing attention. Maybe there could have been some sort of textual information (newspapers/social media/documents...?) which we could actively search for to corroborate the accuracy of the radio.
The theme (censorship/totalitarian state) is also close to me liking (you may want to check this other game out: http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=36138). I think it was well executed.
However, the Ludum Dare theme correlation is pretty weak if you ask me. Ministry of "Growth" and Information is it I guess? Seeing as there are 3 buttons I don't see how it would fit with the "Two button controls" either.
Your idea was great as if our great leader Bob himself came up with an idea for your game!
Broadcasts were funny, both in text and presentation.
Amazing game worthy of the highest praise!
FRUP grows ever greater!
One thing I found a little frustrating was, as the number of stations operating got smaller, it was hard to find the optimal way to spend my time - either stay on one station and listen for the whole loop, hoping I find the offensive remark, or continuing to flip through them and risk missing it.
I agree with some of the other comments that it would be nice if the channels weren't randomly chosen, but in a certain order instead. But it's a minor detail, really. It's also not immediately apparent for each channel what you are looking for, but searching for it is what makes the game fun to play. I like that the game is quite forgiving when you guess incorrectly, which gives you the opportunity to just try and see what happens, thus exploring the various hilarious content. There's little replay value once you've heard everything, but most LD entries don't even have the amount of content you guys have, so that's alright really.
All in all a very nice game. Good job!
Well done.