{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/brackeen\/","author_name":"brackeen","cat":"LD #30","categories":["LD #30"],"comments":[],"epoch":1408830840,"event":"LD30","likes":8,"metadata":{"p_key":"81674","p_author":"brackeen","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"290791","p_title":"> exile all evil capitalists","p_cat":"LD #30","p_event":"LD30","p_time":"1408830840","p_likes":"8","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1408665600","event_key":"24","event_name":"LD30"},"source_url":"2014\/08\/23\/exile-all-evil-capitalists\/","text":"

\"hello_governor\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Story and basic commands are coming along. \u00a0One of these days I\u2019m going to learn to not write like a teenager, but today is not that day.<\/p>\n

You can exile people from the island\u2026<\/p>\n

\"evil_capitalists\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There are regular capitalists, and then there are evil capitalists. Here, I exiled the sole evil\u00a0capitalist from the island.<\/p>\n

You can also exile individuals, or broader groups. One time I exiled all males from the island, but there were a couple transgender folks \u2013 biological males identifying as female \u2013 that weren\u2019t exiled. They had children and decades later the population had rebounded.<\/p>\n

You can also do some\u00a0awful things, like \u201cexile all orphans\u201d. I mean, how evil\u00a0do you have to be to do that.<\/p>\n

What group would you want to exile?<\/p>\n

The game gets slow around a population of 5000 or so. This is because the couple-matching algorithm is O(n^2). Luckily the game is going to be a far lower population, so this won\u2019t be a problem.<\/p>\n

Next, I plan to give the player more choices, namely tax policy (no tax? flat tax? progressive tax? estate tax?). Plus a few random choices or events, like \u201cCommunity Chest\u201d in Monopoly. What else should I add? There could be different goals, from being selfish by\u00a0owning the entire island and controlling wealth, to being benevolent by\u00a0eliminating poverty or inequality.<\/p>\n

Right now it only runs on command line Mac OS X. If I have time, I\u2019ll export to WebGL via Emscripten.<\/p>","time":"August 23rd, 2014 9:54 pm","title":"> exile all evil capitalists","title_was_empty":false}