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Cool music too!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":712531,"author_name":"LDJam user 257438","author_uid":"257438","epoch":1633338250,"text":"Best game I ever played in my life!!!\nI felt dictator who is controlling the media!!!!\n\nMy score\n![Screenshot (280).png](\/\/\/raw\/e9d\/e3\/z\/44846.png) ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":714889,"author_name":"chesschaser","author_uid":"chesschaser","epoch":1633365793,"text":"Cool simulator!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":724965,"author_name":"Arthur Mairs","author_uid":"arthur-mairs","epoch":1633428296,"text":"Hell yeah! this was great! i have fun trashing the whole world, it is all mine now! reminds me of Rebel Inc, which was a lot of fun! nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":725422,"author_name":"3mpty","author_uid":"3mpty","epoch":1633430826,"text":"Really interesting title, I found it a little easy but otherwise the concept is cool and the execution is polished and feels very complete. Awesome work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":728318,"author_name":"Dannyk1994","author_uid":"dannyk1994","epoch":1633445671,"text":"Great game, had funny events and UI and music design was great! Well done solid entry! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":728810,"author_name":"LDJam user 269161","author_uid":"269161","epoch":1633448138,"text":"Nice view on the unstable theme and nice game!\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":729251,"author_name":"wormius","author_uid":"wormius","epoch":1633450096,"text":"Good game. Wish I had more time to read the events.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":729368,"author_name":"JUSTCAMH","author_uid":"justcamh","epoch":1633450609,"text":"Hey matey, thanks for submitting the game to the stream, it was a good time! Here's the vod if you'd like to rewatch; https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1167974254","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":736251,"author_name":"Vectrex28","author_uid":"vectrex28","epoch":1633493374,"text":"Great game, had a lot of fun playing it. I really dig the take on the theme and would work great as some sort of Plage Inc. clone, hah!\nOnly nitpick I have is that it becomes a bit of a waiting game near the end, I think you should make your influence rise faster once you get 100% in certain countries. Either way, a great submission!!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":737910,"author_name":"adam-gould","author_uid":"adam-gould","epoch":1633511935,"text":"@vectrex28 Interestingly enough, your influence does rise faster as you conquer more - each region that hits 100% increases it by 0.5 per second. As with the rate of events popping up, perhaps I should have made the increase exponential instead of linear.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":740152,"author_name":"giuyyt","author_uid":"giuyyt","epoch":1633533760,"text":"the concept of this game is very great and the audio of this game is great too.It reminds me of Plague Inc.\n\nI have some suggestion on it:\n\n1.When i am in the middle stage of the game,the local event is generated too fast for me to think and select the option.You may slow it a bit.\n2.\"caribbean islands\" region is so small that it is hard for me to find it when local event happens in there.You may make the region where local event happens flash instead of just turn blue so that i can find it.  ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":744569,"author_name":"Mathiouza","author_uid":"mathiouza","epoch":1633574886,"text":"Really, I played 14 minutes? x)\n\nGreat game. The mood is so well done! The end game is a bit slow, but that's ok. It may lack a loose condition though.\n\nBut that's minor issues. The game is really cool, the music is perfect and the graphics work well.\n\nReally solid entry! :clap: :clap: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":745857,"author_name":"Frogman","author_uid":"frogman","epoch":1633600258,"text":"Great game! I loved the concept and all the absurd events. It was surpsrisingly fun. I felt like the event spawn rate should increase as the game goes on, to remain consistant during the whole game - right now, I had more events than I could follow at the start, then basically nothing near the end. Other than that, it was really good! I managed to finish it in 11:23 minutes.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":746634,"author_name":"Myles Doupe","author_uid":"myles-doupe","epoch":1633614542,"text":"\"Truly Evil\" - the story I printed about @adam-gould to tarnish his reputation.\n\nThis is a well done game. Trying to balance your influence vs. paying people off. Keeping an eye on certain countries that are close to destabilization. The only real suggestion I have is to add more events, although trying to balance all of those events can be difficult in a 48 hour jam. I had a lot of fun with this one. Thanks for making it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":746725,"author_name":"WitekWitek","author_uid":"witekwitek","epoch":1633616238,"text":"I like your interpritation of the theme.\nThe art is fine.\nI like the BG music aswell.\nI find the game to be somewhat moody and humorous.\nIt was fun trying to take over the world.\n\n\nI wish i had more time to read the events though.\nOverall, nice game. -WitekWitek","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":750328,"author_name":"DaleP","author_uid":"dalep","epoch":1633671753,"text":"I enjoyed reading the crazy events and testing different options, and thought the music did a good job setting the stage. I do wish there was more time to read and appreciate them, and I also would have liked to see more of the unique events with fewer repetitive \u201cpolitical faux pas\u201d and \u201ctruth exposed\u201d events (side note: I was able to go into negative influence if I bribed too often \u2013 not sure if that\u2019s intentional or not). At first I was a little confused because I thought the goal was to gain world domination *without* letting the countries get all the way to 100% destabilization, since it took them \u201coff the board\u201d so to speak. Maybe it\u2019s just because I played using a laptop trackpad, but it would have been nice if the click areas for some of the countries were more generous.\n\nJust a heads up \u2013 your mac zip archive seems to have incorrect file permissions. I had to run `sudo chmod -R 755 \/Users\/daleprice\/Downloads\/Megalomania_Mac.app` after unzipping, before I could open the game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":755849,"author_name":"zimny11","author_uid":"zimny11","epoch":1633810944,"text":"I was stuck on the first message for a while, not because game was broken, but because I was jamming to the music!\nReally uqniue take on the theme. The time flays bay playing this game. It was fun!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":759968,"author_name":"elysiagriffin","author_uid":"elysiagriffin","epoch":1633965440,"text":"Hi there! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play live during my Twitch stream!\n\nIf you\u2019d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:\n\nhttps:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/1172268556?t=0h46m48s\n\nGood luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D\n\n\ud83d\udc9c Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady\n\nhttps:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/elysiagriffin","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/6f\/6ff2788ee4cd647ba7ea0b2c996f2f13ad854bf0097922354aa8c35dc7018ce8.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/megalomania_ld49\/652402","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/megalomania_ld49\/652402","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/megalomania_ld49\/652402","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/gamejolt.com\/games\/megalomania_ld49\/652402","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"80441","g_author":"1012909","g_event":"LD49","g_eventkey":"119","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"382220","g_title":"Megalomania","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"127","g_commentcount":"21","g_site2_node_id":"269307","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"269307","n_urlkey":"382220","n_parent":"258323","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/49\/megalomania","n_slug":"megalomania","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"12909","n_created":"1633280051","n_modified":"1728321194","n_version":"840119","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD49","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":5,"author":12909,"body":"![Game Logo.png](\/\/\/raw\/d62\/3\/z\/46d7f.png)\n\nBeing rich is fun and all, but do you know what's really fun?\n\nPower.\n\nSo, with your massive media empire, you've decided to destabilise and overthrow the world's governments!\n\nTake a look at Megalomania, and see what you can discover. 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