The Political Juggle by Phlip45

In The Political Juggle, you play as an imperial nation trying to keep control over your satellite nations.
Was aiming for a Warioware style of game play with minigames. Hope you enjoy!
Hint: Click back on the map.
Play Game: http://forgettable.altervista.org/LudumDare/LD39/main.html
Source Code and Assets: http://forgettable.altervista.org/LudumDare/LD39/ThePoliticalJuggle.zip
Tools:
Sublime Text: https://www.sublimetext.com/
Paint.net: https://www.getpaint.net/
BeepBox: http://www.beepbox.co
Personal Library: http://forgettable.altervista.org/PhlipJSLibrary/index.html (just has basic draw/sound/control functions)
Audacity: http://www.audacityteam.org/
Bugfixes:
08/02/17: Added a small timer after game over that prevents clicking on restart or credits so you can't accidentally restart game without seeing your score.
| HTML5 (web) | http://forgettable.altervista.org/LudumDare/LD39/main.html |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/the-political-juggle |
Ratings
| Overall | 170th | 3.59⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 42th | 3.869⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 147th | 3.525⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 331th | 3.508⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 483th | 2.803⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 45th | 3.77⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 7th | 4.328⭐ | 63🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 203th | 3.281⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 78🗳️ | 81🗨️ |
This was hectic and fun! Got 21662 score year 1970
Good job !
The take the bribe games took a little too long for me, I always lost a lot of time on them and of course the catch the spy game :grin:
Graphics could be worked on but serve their purpose for a "wacky" game like this. Music is ok, but real voice acting gives you a huge bonus :thumbsup:
Made it to 1966
Those mini games are fun!
Good job.
Very funny -- great sound effects :)
Overall I really like it, my only complaint is that it doesn't really feel like 'running out of power' to me so much as do this as fast as you can. Either way well done! Thanks for the game
The graphics were simple but done with humor, so they worked with the game. The controls were all responsive, no bugs that I could see. The mini games themselves were pretty clear, aside from maybe the Get Out Of Here one the first time it came up. I'm sure you could add more to this if you wanted, or put it online as is for a fun little web game, as it definitely is fun.
Thank you for making this game!
Games with voice overs are always good, it just makes it so much more fun and finished. Also the sound effects are really funny! The graphics are very cool, you can see there is some time and love put into that. Got a Wario Ware feel when playing because of all those mini games that speed up.
It's fun to play and humorous, so what's more to ask for?
Very well done!
I also liked the balancing (at the beginning, I thought "nice idea, but boring", but it was got quite challenging toward the end).
Great job :thumbsup:!
### What I like:
- Great WarioWare feel
- Music and sounds are great
- I love the sound effects!
- The game gets more challenging at about the right pace
### What I think could be done better:
- Nothing! I love this!
Nice music, I liked the different tasks and how it get harder and harder, specially the missil upside down!
It could be a little repetitive but as a short game it is nice.
**Overall game impression:** I really love how it got progressively harder. The voice acting and voice overs were very nice and cool touch, I enjoyed. The gameplay had a nice variety of features which I appreciate. Sound effects overall were nice and pleasant. Overall gameplay was great... I forgot to look at my score though :( but it was fun anyways! Great job!
When I started playing and encountered the murderer didn't know what to do so I died to the murdered spam clicking the screen xD then 2nd time playing I realized you had to click off the murderer's screen lol :D
**Suggestions and comments on improvement:** Add more mini games :D but other than that nothing xDDD
**[GET OUTTA HERE]**
Also I'm glad that you built in brief instructions as spoken audio. Really cool!
For some reason it took me a little bit to notice the bars on each nation, so I was just doing the mini games randomly instead of in order of which one was most urgent. I'm not sure why, because the bars are pretty prominent, but something about them didn't jump out at me at first.
Also, I'm a little confused about the one that just says "get out of here" and has the guy killing the other guy. Is there a mini-game there that I missed? Or is it just that if you get that one it automatically recharges the bar for that country?
As for the power bars not jumping out, one of my friends who played it said the same thing, but I didn't think it was a big enough deal during the jam to put time into making them more obvious.