Crowd Control by ModdingMachine

Society has fallen apart (as it tends to). Your job, as Dwayne the Rock Johnson, is to defend the people from themselves (and also falling buildings). Thankfully, you happen to have an infinite number of boulders stored in your pocket, so you can throw them at whatever you see fit. As everyone knows, Dwayne the Rock Johnson also has telekinesis, so you may grab and move people if they begin to get too rowdy. Just make sure to be gentle with them... The citizens will lose sanity and hunger, so you may need figure out ways to deal with such situations. Oh, and they also don't particularly enjoy being lonely... Do you have what it takes to protect humanity from the various issues that result from stupidity and poor construction, or will all your efforts be in vain...?


Play In Your Browser:
https://larty.itch.io/crowd-control
An Intellegent Entity
These lil buggers are the dumbest form of intellegent, they are 100 percent driven by their emotions and will act impulsivly, it is up to you to make sure they dont kill themselves and eachother.
They are primarilly driven by three emotions, Fear (or Anger), Hunger, and Sadness. They naturally are more prone to certain actions from the beginning of their existence some more than others.
For instance, Patty, the hamburger, will restore hunger to people nearby; however, thier existence proves dangerous, they are more easily agitated and will lash out more frequently. Each individual will be more or less likely to become stressed out over little things and in turn will anger those around them.
Be Careful and Good Luck!
Credits:
ModdingMachine - Coder
SS9 - Artist
Rose - Artist
Kellen - Musician
| Play In The Browser | https://larty.itch.io/crowd-control |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/crowd-control |
Ratings
| Overall | 769th | 3.475⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 313th | 3.725⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 532th | 3.475⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 341th | 3.95⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1042th | 3.15⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 414th | 3.575⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 13th | 4.475⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 634th | 3.531⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 13🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
Name and the cause of death for each little man - that's a cool feature :))
Delaying the inevitable societal collapse as The Rock is quite a funny premise.
However, I honestly do not know what to do except spam rocks to "perma stun" the people in order to prevent them from becoming unhappy
If i try playing without this "hack" the people just end up spontaneously exploding very quickly.
I'm not sure what happened but it was a lot of fun...how did they get guns?!?!?
My highscore is 101
It's hard to look for buildings and the citizens at the same time:D
@blizzsuxx I noticed this problem when one of my friends was playtesting and found a similar bug, I attempted to resolve this by making people angry when a rock hits nearby them. Let me know if you have any solutions or new feature ideas!
@enjaku There are several ways to manipulate their feelings, normally negatively, whereas the best way to control them is to "eliminate the weak" or people prone to strong emotions, and wait till a therapist falls out of a building if your lucky.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR FEEDBACK!!!
I appreciate it greatly and was hoping for this game to be a type of learning-esk game, shooting for a problem solving approach to get people thinking as to how they could stop a mass genocide!
I knew this was going to be humorous from the moment you told me what your game was, but I was not expecting it to be this funny! After each round I was just sitting in my seat shaking with laughter!
I can confirm that the people are, indeed, very fragile. I picked up one lady and dropped her from the top of the screen; and she splatted. Oddly satisfying!
A couple notes:
On my first round, there were two identical names (which I assume was unintentional)

Also, on one round the audio for the lady telling me that I failed didn't play.
Besides that, it seemed to be not very buggy. Good job!