Law and Disorder by whycardboard
WARNING: This game contains strong language.
The year is 1950something. President Penny Hundredcoins has been impeached and sent to jail for breaking way too many laws while in office. You, as his Vice President, now have to assume his office and try to address the issues he has caused... or not... If that wasn't enough, the elections are coming up, and your rival is getting a lot of media coverage, so watch out!
The nation is unstable, the peaceful transfer of power is in peril, and democracy is on the decline...
Grab topics from the TV and write them onto a bill. If the bill makes enough sense, it will be approved by congress, and you will be better regarded by a majority. Otherwise, if your bill is rejected, it will reduce your populatiry further. You must choose which laws are the right ones to pass, because in the end only one side can win...
CONTROLS:
- Left Mouse Button: literally everything
CREDITS:
- Programming: Whycardboard
- Art & Graphic Design: Mateus Boga
- Game Design: Whycardboard, Mateus Boga
- SFX & Voiceacting: Mateus Boga
- Music by Kevin McLeod
Special thanks to: Yoris and 100th_Coin
A side note: During the final moments of development, the library we were using to render text decided to break itself... so very last minute, we had to redesign all of the text in the entire game. This results in a few jumpy bits of text, our apologies.
| Link | https://mateusboga.itch.io/law-and-disorder |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/law-and-disorder |
Ratings
| Overall | 1072th | 3.273⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1366th | 2.738⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 575th | 3.477⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 935th | 3.348⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 593th | 3.773⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 265th | 3.783⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 323th | 3.636⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 578th | 3.565⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 19🗳️ | 26🗨️ |
Picking only good things didn't work, picking only bad things didn't work, picking random things didn't work, picking only stupid things didn't work, picking every card that pops up didn't work.
People are always angry and I never pass the election xD
Still gave it quite a good rating because the mood is very nice, clicking things worked quite well and it's a very unique entry.
I still wonder what communismn is connected to ... "Commis" are russians at that time, right? So a country you were in cold war with? Being pro communisum should be a bad thing all the time, but on the other hand, being anti communism is more like pro-war, so More Guns! and all that stuff.
Yea, I thought about it, gave it quite a few tries, but can't figure out how those topics have anything to do with each other.
I saw two main problems with the gameplay:
First, guidance. I didn't really understand the consequences of anything I was doing. During the first day I was trying to play it safe and only do popular things like lowering the taxes, but none of the bills passed because people thought they were inferior. On the second day I tried raising taxes, but the results were the same. On the third day one bill did pass, but I didn't know which one. So I'm not exactly sure what the people want from me or what I want or what anyone wants. The politics are unstable in the sense that you have to somehow please everyone while getting what you want, but here it's seemingly just random.
The second problem is timing: the options are too slow to appear, and too few. So at first I made an effort to pick and choose the points I thought were important, but because of problem #1 my behavior eventually deteriorated to “just throw everything onto the bill to make as many as possible and hope that *anything* happens”, and there was nothing but blind drag-n-dropping after that. So did anything happen? Up to me, I suppose :)
That said, the mood, music, art, characters and that delightful voice acting are out of this world!
[Utah car accidents attorney](https://moxielawgroup.com/car-accidents/)