Election Day by prachi
Election Day is a game about the importance of delivery when you're giving a speech. Help Marcus by typing his speech as he delivers it. The better your delivery score in each of the 5 rounds, the more votes he will get.
INSTRUCTIONS Type the words before they enter the Thought Bubble (top). Press the space bar when each word turn green in order to speak them (and have them show up in the Speech Bubble (bottom)). The word turns green if it has been completely typed and is in the thought bubble. If the words reach the bottom of the thought bubble without being completed and submitted with the space bar, you will miss those points.
For example, in the example below, you have already typed in DETENTION, and you must now hit space to submit it to the speech bubble.
But in the example below, it looks like you didn't type in STUDENTS in time, and you won't have the chance to finish and hit space in order to speak it.
Marcus can still win the election even though Riley is out to get him, but he needs your help!
| itch.io | https://prachipatil7.itch.io/election-day |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/election-day |
Ratings
| Overall | 513th | 3.639⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 884th | 3.083⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 380th | 3.583⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 341th | 4.139⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 743th | 3.447⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 116th | 3.972⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 574th | 3.556⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
For replayability, I'd recommend including an option to skip the lengthy opening cutscene so that players can get to playing your game faster (especially if and when they've already seen the opening cutscene once).
Although I really liked the idea and the humor :)
The only thing, though, for replayability, I'd add some control to skip instructions.
"..............................Detention......Teachers..."
(I didn't understand I was supposed to press spacebar when the words entered the cloud rather than when they hit the speech bubble underneath, and so I lost the majority of my words.)
Incredible game, 100000/10 for making me bust a gut laughing at myself.
"Riley, though everyone calls her Cryly" made me chuckle. I really like how you set up the story at the start. Having the words fall is hilarious. I couldn't figure out the controls at first and got claps for a bunch of "umm umm ....."s xD
the typing mechanism seems to be a bit glitchy, for example i often found myself having to press space twice to get it to submit and sometimes i wouldn't be able to type at all. wanted to let you know that updating your game with bugfixes are permitted in this game jam, so i really think you should take the opportunity to fix that part up since it's a core component! if that were fixed, i think the game would be a lot more fun!
I had some trouble with the game registering my inputs at times, having to e.g. double-press space before words would be chosen. Sometimes it also wasn't clear that you had to press space to continue, so I'd make that into a subtle prompt!
Aside from that though, kudos, this is very nice.