Crowd Control by ModdingMachine

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made by ModdingMachine for Ludum Dare 50 (JAM)

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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...?

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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

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🗨️

Feedback

pev
05. Apr 2022 · 22:42 UTC
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Name and the cause of death for each little man - that's a cool feature :))
Feesh
05. Apr 2022 · 22:47 UTC
This game was oddly addicting. I didn't expect to play a game about Dwayne the Rock Johnson floating on a cloud babysitting children and also for some odd reason enjoy it as much as I did. The gameplay was fantastic, great job!
Enjaku
05. Apr 2022 · 22:48 UTC
It's cute and a fun concept, but I wasn't sure how to manipulate the three emotions. Also, destroying the buildings dropped rocks on everyone and then people fell out of the buildings... I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do with them. Still, fun and I'm assuming I'm just missing something to get a better score.
Pequi
05. Apr 2022 · 22:48 UTC
This game is hilarious! Really liked your idea!
Blizzsuxx
05. Apr 2022 · 22:51 UTC
Thanks for the WebGL upload!
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.
ciderpunk
05. Apr 2022 · 22:51 UTC
high score: 123!
I'm not sure what happened but it was a lot of fun...how did they get guns?!?!?
Thiago Andre AS
05. Apr 2022 · 22:51 UTC
The concept is really interesting, nice and fun characters! Playing it in 2D platform way was a bit frustrating as I couldn't select the ones I wanted.
EOShadows
05. Apr 2022 · 23:02 UTC
Great game! It was pretty fun, and I really liked the audio! Very interesting concept as well, made for a really fun and humorous experience. I did find things a bit confusing though, I ended up just throwing everyone off the cliff that had a not so good-looking speech bubble. I really liked the game, though! Well done!
Gandelianna
06. Apr 2022 · 09:07 UTC
What a great idea for the game!
My highscore is 101
It's hard to look for buildings and the citizens at the same time:D
Ezykill
09. Apr 2022 · 14:18 UTC
It was a little unclear to me at first how I was supposed to play it, but after a while I figured it out. I really like the humor of this game
HungryCatGames
09. Apr 2022 · 21:14 UTC
Interesting concept, not sure if there was anything I could do to make things better or if that's just the timeline you had set in the game for everything to collapse. Pretty humerous.
Karahan
11. Apr 2022 · 11:57 UTC
I didn't get the point at first but after I lost for the first time, I just wanted to replay and experiment with it. I made a high score of 172, my strategy was to separate angry/swearing/sad peoples with the normal guys and it actually worked for a time. It is really innovative and weirdly addicting. Good job! Now I will experiment with it more :v:
Dannyk1994
11. Apr 2022 · 20:08 UTC
Really solid concept. Funny game art, and nice little gameplay loop ! :) Well done.
🎤 ModdingMachine
11. Apr 2022 · 20:27 UTC
@karahan This is exactly what I was going for! Ideally I wanted people to play it the first time, see what did not work, why people died and correlate it with different events, eventually creating a strategy to keep everyone alive!

@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!
lovetocode999
17. Apr 2022 · 23:55 UTC
Haha that was amazing! :laughing:

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)
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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!